POONCH — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday successfully traced out an 18-year-old boy who went missing from Mandi tehsil of Poonch and reunited him with his family. A missing report of a boy namely Rehan Nazir S/o Nazir Ahmed R/o Baila, Tehsil Mandi age about 18 years was entered at Police Station Mandi vide […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed grief over the loss of three lives due to flash floods triggered by incessant rain in Ramban district while Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary was rushing to the affected areas to take stock of the situation. National Conference president Farooq […]
JAMMU — A school teacher was apprehended for allegedly alluring and demanding sexual favours from a minor student by threatening to fail her in the internal examination in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. The action against the teacher, posted at the Government Higher Secondary School Bhaderwah, was taken following […]
KATHUA — Security forces on Sunday launched a search operation after getting information about movement of three suspected persons near a forest area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said. A priest noticed three persons with backpacks moving towards the forest area of Rasana around 3.30 am and alerted the police, the officials said. […]
RAMBAN — Three people were killed and more than 100 rescued after heavy rain triggered flash floods at different places in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district early on Sunday, officials said. The incessant rain also triggered landslides and mudslides at nearly a dozen places between Nashri and Banihal along the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, prompting […]
RAMBAN — More than 100 people were rescued after heavy rain triggered a flash flood in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district early on Sunday, officials said. The incessant rain also triggered landslides and mudslides at nearly a dozen places between Nashri and Banihal along the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, prompting traffic to […]
JAMMU — The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda have imposed an immediate ban on the storage, sale, display and distribution of ‘Cool Lip’, a smokeless tobacco product, in the district, officials said on Saturday. Additional district magistrate (ADM) Anil Kumar Thakur announced the ban on ‘Cool Lip’ in a “decisive step to safeguard public […]
JAMMU — Two persons, including a woman, were killed and another woman sustained injuries after they were struck by lightning in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Saturday, officials said. They said that over 100 houses suffered damages due to gusty winds in Rajouri district. Two women, identified as Shahnaz Begum […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday said that peace would be established in the Jammu region of the Union Territory, hit by a spate of terror attacks in the recent past, within the next six months. Sinha made these remarks at an interaction with the members of YPO-Global One, an […]
JAMMU — Union minister Jitendra Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday jointly inaugurated the first-ever Municipal Parking Complex in Kathua district with the former hailing the latter’s presence as a gesture of “centre-state cooperation”. Singh, who is representing the Udhampur constituency, which also comprises Kathua, in Parliament for the third […]