JAMMU — Police on Tuesday arrested a youth on allegations of providing information to militants about security force’s establishments and sharing connected material through social media. “On specific inputs, police along with other security forces apprehend one Anjum Mehmood son of Ghulam Moi Din of Baila tehsil Mandi,” a police official told GNS. The official […]
JAMMU — Secretary, Tribal Affairs Department, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary convened a meeting to review the progress in various livelihood initiatives and formulation of plan for financial year 2022-23 in convergence with Animal and Sheep Husbandry Departments. Progress on establishment of mini Sheep Farms, Milk Villages, Milk Chilling Plants, Dairy Farms / Units and tents […]
JAMMU — A 7-year-old boy died after getting trapped under snow in remote Marwah area in Kishtwar district, officials said on Tuesday afternoon. The boy Mutarif Shabir son of Shabir Ahmad Lohar, a resident of Talwar village in Marwah, lost his life before he could be rescued, they said. A police official told GNS that […]
JAMMU — A man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a minor girl from Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Tuesday. While the 14-year-old girl was rescued from the house of her abductor in Poonch district, the accused was arrested from a locality in Jammu within three weeks of the incident, […]
RAJOURI — Three persons were killed while another was injured in a road accident that took place at Khawas in Rajouri district. Police told that in a late evening accident that took place at Bhella village road of Khawas, a tipper vehicle bearing registration number JK11A-6087 plunged into a roadside gorge. Four persons including the […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Ramban launched a wide scale search operation to locate a Lucknow family believed to have gone ‘missing’ along Srinagar-Jammu highway at Ramsu, since Friday morning. SSP Ramban Mohita Sharma told GNS that the search operation was launched after a family from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh informed through social media that their […]
SRINAGAR — At least three persons from Poonch were killed even as another person critically injured after a vehicle carrying them met with a fatal accident in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh this afternoon. Identifying the deceased as Bashir Ahmed son of Samad Sheikh; Bashir Ahmed son of Ghulam Mohd and Mohd Iqbal son of Ghulam […]
JAMMU — Two brothers were killed and a person injured when an earthmover skidded off a road and plunged into a 100-feet-deep gorge in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred at Shahlala around 11.30 pm Saturday when the brothers along with an acquaintance were on their way to […]
JAMMU — A man from Pakistan was nabbed by Border Security Force troops after he inadvertently infiltrated from International Border in Jammu, Officials said Saturday. BSF officials said that one Pakistani national crossed over inadvertently to Indian side at Balhad border point today at about 01 PM. “He came about 200 meters inside India our […]
RAJOURI — Two army personnel are feared dead in an accidental fire that took place at Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri sector. Officials said that an incident had taken place at LoC in Hanjanwali area of Rajouri sector in which two army personnel received injuries and succumbed later. Officials said that the police team […]