SRINAGAR — The Jammu-Srinagar National highway has been closed for vehicular traffic due to shooting stones and landslides at Ramban, officials said on Wednesday. “Mughal road and SSG road through for vehicular movement. However, Jammu-Srinagar NHW (NH-44) blocked at Ramban due to mudslide and shooting stones,” Jammu and Kashmir Traffic police said. The highway is […]
JAMMU — Five low intensity earthquakes jolted Jammu and Kashmir in about 12 hours on Tuesday, officials said. No loss of life or damage to property was reported, they said. The first earthquake of magnitude 3.9 occurred at 2.20 am, 61 km east of Katra area in Jammu region, they said. The officials said the […]
JAMMU — A Special Police Officer (SPO) on Tuesday allegedly bludgeoned his pregnant wife to death in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Accused SPO Mohan Lal is absconding, they said, adding his house was set ablaze by some angry villagers. Senior Superintendent of Police, Kathua, Ramesh Chander Kotwal said special teams have […]
JAMMU — A BJP leader was found hanging from a tree under mysterious circumstances in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Tuesday, officials said. A villager saw the body of Som Raj hanging from a tree at some distance from his house in Hiranagar town in the morning and informed the police, they said. The […]
JAMMU — Four light intensity earthquakes jolted Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in less than six hours. The tremors that occurred in Reasi, Doda and Udhampur districts measured 3.9, 2.6, 2.8 and 2.9 on the Richter scale, according to officials. The timings of the quakes were 2.20 a.m., 3.21 a.m., 3.44 a.m. and 8.03 a.m. […]
JAMMU — Two suspected militants were killed as the Army foiled an infiltration attempt along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. The infiltration attempt in Naushera sector was made on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, a defence spokesman said. “The reconnaissance of the […]
JAMMU — The number of dead in Rajouri suicide attack rose to five, as another injured soldier succumbed at the military hospital at northern command in Udhampur, officials here said on Monday. On August 11, two militants had attacked an army camp in Rajouri killing four soldiers in a pre-dawn suicide strike that marked the […]
JAMMU — A rusted grenade was defused by a bomb disposal squad in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. The grenade was found lying in a dried up stream by some farmers working in their fields nearby at Swankha village in Vijaypur, they said. They informed police and the explosive device […]
JAMMU — Hundreds of protesters on Monday blocked the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway in Samba district after a college student from Jammu and Kashmir was found dead in Punjab, officials said. Twenty-year-old Vaishali, a resident of Madkoli village of Sumb block, went missing on Saturday while returning from Government Degree College in Samba. Her body was […]
JAMMU — An intruding militant nabbed on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district was sent as ‘Fidayeen’ (suicide bomber) by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Army soldiers noticed suspicious movement in the Sehar Makri area of Nowshera sector Sunday evening. ‘After being challenged, the militant started running back towards the Pakistani side […]