SHOPIAN — Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested two alleged bootleggers and recovered 43 bottles of illicit liquor from their possession during naka checking in Arhama area of Shopian district on Wednesday, police said. The accused were identified as Lawaris, son of Suriyaban Chavan, and Daramdas Khosla, son of Dhamdhari Khosla, both residents of Maharashtra and […]
REASI — Jammu and Kashmir Police in Reasi arrested two persons and recovered 6.65 grams of heroin-like substance from their possession during naka checking in Katra, officials said. The two were intercepted by a police party from Police Station Katra while they were walking from Balini towards the Katra Bus Stand at Chungi Point around […]
ANANTNAG — Police arrested three alleged drug peddlers in two separate incidents in Anantnag district and recovered contraband substances from their possession, officials said on Wednesday. During night patrolling in the Sallar area, a police party from Police Station Srigufwara apprehended two persons identified as Farhan Ahmad Shah and Ayaz Ahmad Shah, both residents of […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government is working on a new media policy to regulate the mushrooming of social media journalists, the Legislative Assembly was informed on Wednesday. Responding to a question from National Conference (NC) MLA Bashir Veeri, Minister Sakina Itoo said the Assembly’s House Committee, constituted to examine the matter, has given […]
BANDIPORA — Police arrested two persons and registered separate cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act during naka checking in Ajas area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, officials said on Wednesday. The arrests were made at a naka at Zadoo, Ajas, where police intercepted a person travelling from Ganderbal towards Bandipora. […]
JAMMU — At least eight houses and a few cowsheds were gutted in a major fire that broke out in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Wednesday, officials said. No casualties were reported in the blaze. The fire broke out in a house in Mungli village of Warwan shortly after midnight […]
RAJOURI — Police have arrested two persons and seized 1,300 tablets of Tapentadol and Pregabalin from their possession in Rajouri district, officials said. A police party from Police Post City Rajouri intercepted a Pulsar motorcycle bearing registration number JK11E-6235 during checking, they said. The rider was identified as Mohd Imran, a resident near PG College, […]
ANANTNAG — Police have seized 75 kg of crushed bhang during searches at the residential premises of two persons in Sonch Brah area of Anantnag district, officials said on Wednesday. Acting on specific information regarding concealment of narcotic substances, police conducted searches at the houses of Mudasir Ahmad Khan and Abdul Qayoom Khan after obtaining […]
SRINAGAR — A most wanted terrorist belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was killed on Tuesday in an encounter with the Rashtriya Rifles in the higher reaches of Budgam district in central Kashmir, security officials said. While Kashmir-based Chinar Corps did not reveal the identity of the slain terrorist, officials identified him as Sulaiman Shah alias […]
JAMMU — The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch arrested two persons, including a woman, in connection with an online fraud case and filed a chargesheet against them and two other absconding accused, an official said on Tuesday. The case arose from a complaint lodged in 2023 by a local resident, Bodh Raj, […]