JAMMU — Two Village Defence Guards were on Thursday executed by militants after their abduction in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said. Sanatan Dharam Sabha called for a complete bandh in Kishtwar in protest against the killings on Friday. A massive joint search operation has been launched by police and […]
JAMMU — Police arrested a constable posted in the Crime Branch and his two wives during a raid on their house here on Thursday, and seized 33 grams of heroin and more than 2.5 lakh cash from their possession. The raid, conducted at constable Parwaiz Khan’s residence in Janipur, also led to the recovery of […]
JAMMU — Four people, including a minor, died and two others were injured when a vehicle skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Thursday, officials said. An SUV skidded off the road, rolled down a hill, and plunged into a deep gorge in the Ganjote […]
JAMMU — The Gorkha community in Jammu held a protest against the resolution seeking the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status passed in the assembly, and burnt effigies of Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary. The protesters demanded a separate state for the Jammu region, saying it would allow them to have their own […]
SRINAGAR — Opposition BJP on Wednesday said it will not allow the proceedings of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly to go on until a resolution asking the Centre to hold talks with the elected representatives from the region for the restoration of the erstwhile state’s special status was withdrawn. “This is an illegal resolution and […]
POONCH — The prices of Kashmiri apples have fallen and people in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch are buying them at low rates. Local residents gave credit to Mughal Road which reduces transportation time and urged the government to keep this road open for 12 months. Mughal Road proves to be an effective link between Poonch […]
JAMMU — The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit staged a protest here to denounce the resolution on the restoration of J&K’s special status, which was passed by the assembly on Wednesday. The resolution has sought a dialogue between the Centre and elected representatives for the restoration of the special status of the erstwhile state. Led […]
JAMMU — Exposing a financial racket operating from a Jammu and Kashmir post office, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against five postal employees for swindling thousands of rupees from the savings accounts of a late senior citizen operating in Gandhi Nagar Head Post Office in Jammu. The federal agency has […]
JAMMU — An army personnel died and another got injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Monday, officials said. The accident took place near Badog village in Kalakote late this evening, the officials said. Naik Badri Lal and Sepoy Jai Prakash were […]
JAMMU — A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was found dead under suspicious circumstances at his rented accommodation here on Monday, officials said. Nitish Kumar (33), a resident of Pathankot in Punjab, was found hanging from the ceiling in his room at the Paloura locality in the outskirts of the city, they said. The officials […]