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. […]
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Three killed, over 100 rescued as heavy rain wreaks havoc in Ramban
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 […]
Heavy rain triggers flash flood in Ramban, over 100 people rescued
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 […]
Smokeless tobacco product ‘Cool Lip’ banned in Doda
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 […]
Two killed in lightning strike in Reasi; gusty winds damage over 100 houses in Rajouri
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 […]
‘Jammu region is on track to fully regain peace within next six months’: LG Sinha
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 […]
Union minister, CM jointly inaugurate municipal parking complex in Kathua
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 […]
22 families shifted amid lurking threat of landslide in Kishtwar
JAMMU — At least 22 families have been shifted as a precautionary measure due to the lurking threat of a landslide in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, a government official said. Traffic remained suspended on the Kishtwar-Paddar road, connecting the famous Machail Mata shrine for the third day on Saturday. District Development Commissioner […]
Omar Abdullah meets industrialists, discusses investment plans
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday met with Dhunseri Group Chairman Chandra Kumar Dhanuka and discussed investment plans in the union territory. Dhanuka, accompanied by Chief Executive Officer R K Sharma, briefed Abdullah on their proposed investment for establishing a Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene Films (BOPP) manufacturing unit in Kathua, the […]
Three interstate narco smugglers arrested in Udhampur, heroin recovered
UDHAMPUR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday apprehended three interstate narco smugglers in Udhampur and recovered heroin like substance from their possession. Police Station Rehambal while performing routine vehicle checking at Phalata naka point recovered 22 grams of heroin like substance from three narco smugglers who were travelling in a vehicle bearing Registeration […]