JAMMU — A landslide triggered by rains struck the Vaishno Devi yatra track atop Trikota hills in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Wednesday evening, forcing the suspension of the battery car service, officials said. The pilgrimage to the revered shrine remained unaffected, with hundreds of pilgrims continuing their to-and-fro trek despite the landslide, they […]
JAMMU — Security forces busted a terrorist hideout in Kathua district on Wednesday and recovered two hand grenades, officials said. The hideout was unearthed in the upper reaches of Billawar on the disclosure of an overground worker, Haji Latief, they said. Latief, a resident of Rabagh who was arrested on July 2, is facing charges […]
JAMMU — Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary on Wednesday said the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir would help the government work independently and effectively, and asked why the Centre has not honoured the statehood promise when it has fulfilled several others. Choudhary reiterated that the ruling National Conference would stage a protest at […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the National Conference (NC) would invite all political parties, except those part of the NDA, to the proposed protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on July 20 for the restoration of statehood. He said that besides the parties in the India bloc, invitations will […]
SRINAGAR — PDP leader Iltija Mufti on Wednesday said quality and preservation of the cave shrine of Amarnath must take precedence over quantity as the ongoing annual yatra crossed the one-lakh mark in the first five days of the pilgrimage. More than 1.15 lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the ice lingam of Lord Shiva […]
JAMMU — A woman was severely injured after being attacked by a wild bear in a hamlet in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said. The woman, identified as Tazeem Akhtar, was attacked outside her residence in Arai village of Mandi tehsil, they said. She sustained grievous injuries and was initially taken to […]
JAMMU — The Economic Offences Wing of Jammu Crime Branch initiated an investigation into an alleged Rs 3.75 crore property fraud here on Wednesday, an official said. A case has been registered against Pieary Lal Koul, a resident of Channi Deeli, after a Jammu-based doctor charged him with cheating and criminal breach of trust during […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday registered two fresh FIRs in connection with an alleged Custodian land scam in Jammu, accusing revenue officials, Form Alaf holders and beneficiaries of fraudulently grabbing government land through forged documents and illegal mutations. According to an ACB statement, the cases relate to the alleged illegal alienation […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district have suspended four teachers for alleged irregularities in the annual Amarnath yatra duties, officials said on Wednesday. “District Administration Ganderbal has taken cognisance of certain irregularities which occurred in connection with the on-spot registration process for Shri Amarnathji Yatra pilgrims at the Manigam Transit Camp,” an […]
SRINAGAR — Three over-ground workers of terrorists were apprehended in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district with the help of Facial Recognition System (FRS) deployed for the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, police said on Wednesday. The FRS installed by Anantnag Police generated timely alerts regarding three suspicious individuals while they were passing through the Sarbal area, demonstrating […]