JAMMU — Ahead of the I-Day celebrations, the security forces in Jammu claimed to have busted a module of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a militant outfit and arrested four militants on Saturday. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh told that a JeM module has been busted in Jammu. “We have arrested four militants of […]
SRINAGAR — The India-Pakistan Armies on Saturday exchanged sweets along the Line of Control at various border points in Jammu and Kashmir on the occasion of Pakistan Independence Day. In a statement, a spokesperson said that on 14 August, the Indian Army as a warm gesture, presented sweets to Pakistan Army at Chilehana Tithwal Crossing […]
SOPORE — A 24-year-old National Health Mission (NHM) employee, posted at Sub District Hospital Sopore, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her home in Hib Dangerpore area of Rafiabad in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that the family of the girl found their beloved hanging inside her room following which police was […]
SRINAGAR — On August 8, Jammu and Kashmir government issued a weekly order detailing Covid-19 containment measures in the union territory. Like previous orders that have been issued periodically since the second wave of the pandemic in the summer, it talked about the need to follow social distancing norms, intensify vaccination drives, keep schools closed […]
SRINAGAR — Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has handled the Covid-19 pandemic with great professionalism and used all possible resources to provide Care and Cure to the patients suffering from Covid-19 in both waves. Sufficient measures were taken by the Health & Medical Education Department, J&K, which included increasing the bed capacity, oxygen generation […]
SRINAGAR — Amid growing chorus to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP reiterated on Thursday that the situation at present is not conducive for it, the New Indian Express reported. On August 5, 2019, the Centre scrapped J&K’s special status and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday condemned the grenade attack on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jasbir Singh and said perpetrators will be brought to justice. “Strongly condemn the cowardly attack in the house of a political leader in Rajouri in which a 2-year old child was killed &others were […]
SRINAGAR — The family of Bashir Ahmad Bhat, a 35-year-old shopkeeper in the Nadihal area of Bandipora district, alleges that he has been charged under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted to a jail in Jammu because he had shot a video of an accident in which an elderly woman was run over by […]
TRAL — Security forces recovered and defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Dadsara area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A police official told that an IED was detected by joint team of forces at Dadasara area of Tral on late Thursday night which was later destroyed by the bomb disposal squad. He […]
SRINAGAR — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered an FIR against one Raja Ashraf Ali Khan, a Vocational Instructor in Technical Education Department Srinagar in a disproportionate assets case. As per an official spokesperson, an FIR under Prevention of Corruption Act was registered on outcome of a verification conducted by ACB into allegations of accumulation […]