JAMMU — Hundreds of daily wage employees of the Jal Shakti department staged a protest here on Thursday, demanding the government release the report of the committee set up by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the regularisation of their services. The PHE Employees United Front, Jammu, urged the chief minister to table the committee report […]
SRINAGAR — A massive fire broke out around 2:30 AM in the Karfali Mohalla area of Habba Kadal, Srinagar, gutting nine residential houses and one godown, and leaving multiple families homeless. The blaze, which reportedly started from the godown, spread swiftly through the densely packed locality. Fire tenders from the nearest station and the headquarters […]
JAMMU — A court in Jammu and Kashmir has sentence a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl in Udhampur district and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him. Police secured the conviction of the accused in a sensitive POCSO case registered at Police Station Ramnagar in 2020 wherein […]
JAMMU — Authorities have ordered the disconnection of electricity and water supply connections to an alleged illegal settlement of Rohingyas following complaints by residents in the Jammu capital city. The large chunk of plots of land, on which scores of shanties have been set up to house Rohingyas, belongs to a resident of Rajouri district, […]
JAMMU — Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh distributed free laptops to the top-performing female students of his constituency. He said that the Modi government has introduced several dedicated schemes for women, and in the wake of Diwali, laptops could be the ideal gift for meritorious girl students. Dr Jitendra Singh, in his address, said, “In […]
JAMMU — A three-metre-long python was captured in Rajal village of Rajouri district after an operation that lasted for hours, officials said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, locals informed the wildlife department about the presence of a large python in a cattle shed in Rajal village of Nowshera tehsil. A team from the department rushed to […]
JAMMU — Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the administration in Ramban town would identify alternative places for a permanent resettlement of the population of ecologically-vulnerable places in the hilly district. The minister of state in the prime minister’s office was speaking at a public durbar, organised in Ramban as part of his ongoing […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — Demonstrating prompt action and effective investigation, Reasi Police have solved a temple theft case in Katra within days, leading to the arrest of the accused and recovery of stolen gold ornaments. On October 15, a complaint was received at Police Station Katra regarding the theft of gold ornaments from the idol inside […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — Police have booked an unauthorized pony operator on the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi (SMVD) track for operating without valid registration or authorization. During routine patrolling by the police party from Police Post Banganga near Bathing Ghat No. 2, Ban Ganga, one person working as a pony carrier was stopped for checking. The […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday claimed to have solved two separate murder cases here with the arrest of six people, including five members of a family and a foreign national from Myanmar. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Jammu, Joginder Singh, said a man identified as Narinder Singh was assaulted during a […]