JAMMU — A 55-year-old special police officer, who had gone missing with his service rifle, was found dead in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Friday, officials said. The body of Bashir Ahmed was found in a forest area near his residence in Trigham, along with his self-loading service rifle and a magazine, police said. […]
JAMMU — Police have traced a missing woman and a missing girl in two separate cases in Pallanwala and Chowki Choura areas of Jammu, with both missing reports subsequently closed. In the first case, a woman from Millen Di Khui was traced by Police Post Pallanwala on October 15. Her missing report had been entered […]
KATHUA — The District Administration Kathua on Wednesday demolished a residential structure belonging to an alleged drug peddler at Prithi Chak (Chack Drab Khan), citing illegal construction on government land. According to an official statement, the demolition drive was carried out under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan with the assistance of the Revenue Department and […]
BHADERWAH — Dengue cases continue to rise in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, with over 190 laboratory-confirmed cases requiring hospitalisation reported at Government Medical College Doda. The surge in cases prompted authorities to seek assistance from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology (NIV) to strengthen surveillance and identify […]
JAMMU — The body of a woman, who was swept away by floodwaters in the outskirts of Jammu city, was recovered on Tuesday after three consecutive days of search by the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and local police, officials said. Ruksana Kouser, wife of Mohd Kaleem, was swept away […]
POONCH — Security forces recovered weapons and war-like stores concealed inside a natural cave in the Satarban Forest area of Poonch district on Tuesday, the Indian Army’s White Knight Corps said. According to a post on X by the White Knight Corps, troops launched a joint operation in the area based on intelligence inputs from […]
JAMMU — At least four residents of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) were killed in a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) blast across the Line of Control (LoC), adjacent to the Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district, on Monday, prompting heightened security on the Indian side, officials said. The powerful blast reportedly occurred in Satwal-Naki […]
JAMMU — A suspected improvised explosive device (IED) explosion rocked a forward village along the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishna Ghati sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Monday, triggering heightened security measures, officials said. The powerful blast reportedly occurred in Satwal-Naki area near the zero line, during the movement of a group […]
SAMBA — Police in Samba have traced a missing woman and reunited her with her family after she went missing from her home earlier this month, officials said on Monday. According to police, the woman’s mother, a resident of Jallapur village in Samba district, lodged a written complaint at Police Post Goran on October 7, […]
JAMMU — A Jammu and Kashmir Police employee was apprehended after police recovered approximately 15 grams of a heroin-like substance (chitta) during vehicle checking at Balol Naka near Indranagar in the Miran Sahib area of Jammu, police said. According to police, a team from Police Station Miran Sahib intercepted a scooty bearing registration number JK02DW-7378, […]