JAMMU — Police have arrested a man in Jammu for issuing fake appointment orders to gullible youth looking for government jobs, officials said on Monday. Multiple fake appointment orders, bogus stamps, electronic gadgets, including a computer, and Rs 2.5 lakh in cash were recovered from Tej Bushan Sharma, a resident of Lower Gadi Garh, who […]
R S PURA — With tensions escalating along the Indo-Pak border and fears of a war looming large, border villagers of Jammu are urgently appealing for the repair and completion of pending construction work of border bunkers that serve as their only shield during cross-border shelling. The recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, which claimed 26 […]
NEW DELHI — The communication system inside the escape tunnels between two sections of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Rail Link Project (USBRL) is incomplete and yet to be fine-tuned, the Northern Railway complained in a written communication to the Konkan Railway Communication Limited, its service provider. The final Katra-Sangaldan section of the 272-km USBRL project was to be […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government’s top brass resumed functioning from the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar on Monday after a six-month spell in Jammu, the winter capital. “Today, I resumed office at the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar after six months. The focus now is clear — action, accountability, and reaching every individual through good […]
JAMMU — Security forces unearthed a terrorist hideout in a forest area in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the recovery of five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and two wireless sets, officials said on Monday. All the ready-to-use IEDs, weighing between half-a-kg and five kg, were destroyed in a controlled explosion on-the-spot, thwarting […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — At least four persons have been arrested for sexually assaulting a woman in the Nishat area of Srinagar, police said on Sunday. In a statement, police said, “A woman, originally from Reasi district and presently residing in Nishat, was sexually assaulted by some individuals near Water Works Road in Nishat. She sustained […]
JAMMU — At least 22 persons, including 12 women and eight children, were injured when the wall of a house collapsed during a marriage function at Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday, officials said. The incident took place at Dhani Dhar village soon after the bride reached the house in the evening, they said. […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — In a swift and coordinated action, District Police Jammu sealed a medical shop at Naugran Bishnah for violation of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, following the recovery of an illicit drugs. A telephonic message received by SHO Police Station Bishnah alerted police about a suspected consignment of illict drugs. Acting promptly on […]
SRINAGAR — Residents of a village in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir recovered the body of a youth on Sunday amid allegations that the deceased was picked by security forces for questioning in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said there were serious allegations of foul play in the […]
JAMMU — A day after being dismissed from service for allegedly concealing his marriage with a Pakistani woman, CRPF trooper Munir Ahmed on Sunday said he married his cousin nearly a month after getting permission from the force’s headquarters last year. Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Ahmed, a resident of Jammu’s Gharotra area, said […]