JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir police’s Crime Branch on Friday booked the proprietor of a private security agency for allegedly gaining entry into government tenders using a forged certificate, officials said. Ram Sharma, a resident of Jammu’s Gadi Garh, is accused of manipulating and using a Private Security Agencies Regulationtion Act (PSARA) certificate originally issued […]
JAMMU — Police on Friday foiled a protest march by daily wagers of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department supporting their demand for regularization and resorted to minor cane charges to prevent them from moving towards Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s residence here. The daily wagers have called for a 72-hour strike. Raising slogans like “Omar […]
JAMMU — Half a century after transferring over 10,122 acres of land to the Jammu Development Authority (JDA), the Jammu and Kashmir government is yet to demarcate and hand over possession of 1,075 acres of prime land to the authority. The demarcation still ongoing, said government officials. According to a government document, “The JDA has […]
KATHUA — Security forces have apprehended a Pakistani intruder along the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, police sources said on Thursday. Security personnel detected suspicious movement of a person attempting to cross the border in the Hiranagar sector on Wednesday night, the sources said. The forces fired a few warning […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said a panel has been formed to address the issue of regularisation of daily wagers in the Union Territory, which will submit its recommendations to the government in six months. The chief minister also said the National Conference government is committed to ensuring speedy […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday booked a hardcore criminal under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) at Police station Ranbir Singh Pura Jammu. He have been identified as Balwinder Kumar S/o Daya Ram R/o Chakrohi Tehsil Suchetgarh District Jammu has been booked under Public Safety Act for his continuous involvement in criminal […]
JAMMU — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA Waheed-ur-Rehman Para on Wednesday strongly advocated treating the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits as a matter of “dignity” rather than merely that of “relief or consumer issue”. He also called for the formation of district-level nodal agencies to resolve their problems. He further urged the government to formulate […]
DODA — Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Doda Mehraj Malik has responded to the non-bailable warrant issued against him by a Jammu court, stating that it is a personal issue and he is focused on his duties in the assembly. “I am an MLA; you may ask me about what is going on in the […]
JAMMU — A court in Jammu city has issued a non-bailable warrant against Mehraj Malik, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from the Doda Assembly constituency. Special excise mobile magistrate Jammu has directed police to arrest the MLA and produce him before the court on May 14, the next date of hearing in the case. Former […]
JAMMU — The J&K government on Wednesday said an investigation is underway by the home department into the recent mysterious deaths of 17 people in Badhaal village in Rajouri district, with clinical reports and laboratory investigations detecting presence of insecticides in the visecra samples of the deceased. The government was responding to the demands of […]