SRINAGAR — A non-local driver was killed after a heavy shooting stone hit a apple laden vehicle along Mughal road this afternoon, officials said. They told GNS that one Toffiq Ahmad son of Qurban Ali, resident of Sitapur Uttar Pradesh, died on spot after a truck bearing registration number UP32MN 1224 he was driving was […]
JAMMU — Three each Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and sticky bombs, part of a consignment dropped by drones from across the border, were recovered on Saturday in Kathua, a senior police officer said. The recovery was made on the disclosure of a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant, who was arrested from Kathua on October 2, Additional Director […]
JAMMU — An alleged hardcore criminal was booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police said. “Vasu Dev alias Shunu, a resident of Ramgarh, is a habitual criminal and his criminal activities are posing a great threat to the public peace and tranquility,” a police spokesman […]
JAMMU — Five persons were apprehended and booked under sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the recent recovery of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, police said on Friday. The IED was smuggled in from across the Line of Control (LoC) and recovered from a woman […]
POONCH — Four people including a mother-daughter duo were injured in a bear attack at Challa Dhangri in Poonch district on Friday. They said that bear attacked and injured Shaheen Akther (40), her minor daughter Shaira Kousar (10), Anjum Bashir (19), and Abdul Majeed (60) this afternoon. All the injured were shifted to Sub District […]
JAMMU — Two alleged criminals were detained under the Public Safety Act in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. Vikas Slathia alias Vicky of Vijaypur and Akshay Sharma of Ramgarh are habitual criminals and their activities pose a great threat to public peace and tranquillity, the police said in a statement […]
JAMMU — A senior government official has directed construction companies engaged in widening the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway to deploy adequate manpower and machinery at all vulnerable sliding zones to immediately clear debris and maintain hassle-free traffic. Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar passed the directions while inspecting progress of the four-laning work on Wednesday, an […]
RAMBAN — A CRPF jawan, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Punjab, was laid to rest with full honours at his home town in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. The 34-year-old jawan Waseem Afzal, a resident of Kharwan village of Ramsu, was reported missing from Pathankot in Punjab […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Director General (Prisons) Hemant K Lohia was cremated with full state honours here on Wednesday, two days after he was murdered allegedly by a domestic help, in a sombre ceremony attended by family members, senior officials and colleagues. Lohia, a 1992-batch IPS officer, was found dead with his throat slit […]
JAMMU — No militant angle has emerged during investigation of the murder case of Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (Prisons) Hemant Kumar Lohia, police said on Wednesday. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh said the interrogation of the accused is in progress and his disclosures are being corroborated with […]