JAMMU — Inspector General of BSF, Jammu frontier, Shashank Anand called on Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha here on Friday and discussed various issues of border security with him, a spokesperson said. A Haryana cadre IPS officer, Anand took over as the new IG of BSF on February 7, replacing D K Boora who had held […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Police in Srinagar has solved a theft case by arresting accused person involved in the commission of crime and recovered stolen cash from his possession. Police Station Soura received a written complaint from one person namely Ali Mohammad Mir R/o Nowshera, stating therein that an unknown thief barged into his cloth shop […]
RAJOURI — Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday seized six kgs of narcotics, believed to be high-grade heroin worth over Rs 30 crore in the international market, from a village near the Line of Control in Rajouri district, officials said. The recovery from the forward village in Nowshera sector was made on the disclosure of […]
SRINAGAR — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has described as “unfortunate” the security establishment’s decision to seal Srinagar’s historic Jama Masjid on Shab-e-Baraat, one of the holiest nights in the Islamic calendar that was observed across Kashmir. Police on Thursday placed Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who was scheduled to deliver a sermon at Jama Masjid on Shab-e-Baraat, […]
NEW DELHI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday paid tribute to the 40 CRPF personnel killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in 2019. The Narendra Modi government is determined to completely destroy terrorists by carrying out a campaign with a “zero-tolerance” policy against them, Shah also said. “On behalf […]
JAMMU — At least 350 members of 70 families, who were shifted to two separation facilities last month owing to mysterious deaths in their village, returned home in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. Seventeen members of three families, including 13 children, died under mysterious circumstances after falling sick in remote […]
RAJOURI — Army troops have recovered a cache of explosive material, including an anti-tank mine, along the Line of Control in the Rajouri-Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, security officials said on Thursday. The material was found in a forward village in Tarkundi, an area which connects the twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — In yet another significant measure towards combating drug abuse and dismantling illicit drug networks, Srinagar Police has attached a residential property valuing about Rs 18 lakhs belonging to a notorious drug peddler Javid Ahmad Wani son of Ali Mohammad resident of Gasoo Tehsil Hazratbal under the provisions of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday expressed optimism about the restoration of statehood, saying, “I believe that time has come now.” Asked if he had raised the issue during his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi earlier this week, Abdullah said the process of statehood restoration was […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday welcomed High Court’s judgment regarding issuance of travel documents raised hope among those denied passport for years on the basis of their relationship with militants and political prisoners. In a post on X, Mirwaiz said “The High Court’s judgment regarding issuance of travel documents raises […]