JAMMU — Four people including a policeman are feared dead after back to back landslides hit a mega power project site in Kishtwar district on Saturday. A police Sub Inspector and a few other people were rescued in injured condition following the incident at Drabshalla- Ratle hydroelectric project this evening, official sources told GNS. They […]
JAMMU — A massive search operation was carried out in and around the railway station here on Friday after 18 detonators were found in a drain near it, officials said. The railway police on Thursday evening foiled a plan of terrorists to possibly trigger an IED blast by recovering 18 detonators and explosive material packed […]
JAMMU — Fifteen houses were gutted in a massive fire in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Friday. No one was injured in the blaze that broke out in Chag-Gandhari area of Paddar tehsil on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, they said. Army and police personnel along with the locals […]
JAMMU — Police foiled a plan of militants to possibly trigger an IED blast and recovered 18 detonators near the Jammu railway station here, officials said. Police were alerted after an abandoned bag was found in an ‘nallah’ (drain) near the taxi stand, they said. A police team rushed to the spot and took possession […]
JAMMU — At least 20 passengers were injured in a road accident that took place near Chowki Choura in Jammu district on Thursday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the accident took place when a bus, on way to Jammu from Rajouri, skidded off road near Tungi Morh of Jammu district. […]
SRINAGAR — A 13-year-old girl was among eight people were injured in an accident at Kelamorh along the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district on Thursday. Official sources told GNS that there was a collision between a Passenger auto and a truck, resulting in injuries to at least eight people who were later shifted to hospital […]
NEW DELHI — Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Monday visited forward posts in the Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir and asked the soldiers deployed in the region to maintain operational preparedness of the “highest order”. Gen Chauhan also celebrated Diwali with the troops. The field commanders in the Rajouri sector […]
JAMMU — The Border Security Force and the Pakistan Rangers exchanged sweets at the International Border in Jammu on the occasion of Diwali, officials said on Monday. “Today, on the occasion of Diwali, BSF and Pak Rangers exchanged sweets at various BOPs under Jammu Frontier in a very cordial atmosphere,” the BSF said. BSF Jammu […]
JAMMU — A commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was arrested on the charge of sexually harassing a woman officer of the force in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, officials said on Monday. A complaint was registered on Sunday in which an assistant commandant of a CRPF unit at Battal Ballian alleged that […]
JAMMU — In a major operation based on intelligence inputs, Jammu and Kashmir police recovered heroin worth Rs 80 crores from a truck on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Udhampur district. “Heroin worth Rs 80 crore with Afghan markings was recovered from a truck by police yesterday (Sunday). The truck was intercepted at zero point in […]