POONCH — The Indian Army’s Romeo Force seized a huge cache of weapons and explosives in the Jhullas area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Saturday. According to the Army officials, a search was launched based on a tip-off and the weapons and explosives were recovered from a suspected militant bag. The […]
JAMMU — Two minor siblings died and their mother was injured after a snake bit them at their house in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police officials said on Saturday. Vandana Katyal (6) and her younger brother Divansh Katyal (3) and their mother Kajol Devi were asleep when the snake bit them at […]
JAMMU — A government school teacher was suspended for allegedly resorting to corporal punishment to a student in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said on Saturday. Anayatullah Ahanger, posted at Primary School Gowarian Dhar in remote Inderwal area, was placed under immediate suspension after a video purportedly showing a student subjected to corporal punishment […]
JAMMU — Candidates and their supporters from across parties have been camping outside the EVM strong rooms in this border district even as authorities have made robust arrangements. Counting of votes of 90 assembly segments across Jammu and Kashmir will take place on October 8. Jammu and Kashmir went to polls in phases on September […]
JAMMU — 75 Year-old former Minister and BJP candidate Sayed Mushtaq Bukhari expired on Wednesday in Pamrote Surankote area of Poonch district, an official said. Officials said that BJP Candidate for Surankote Constituency Sayed Mushtaq Bukhari died this morning at home. Meanwhile, Senior PDP Leader and Candidate Mendhar Constituency Advocate Nadeem Rafiq Hussain Khan and […]
JAMMU — Long denied the right to vote, members of the Valmiki community exercised their franchise for the first time in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections on Tuesday and termed it as a “historic moment”. The Valmikis were originally brought to J&K in 1957 from Punjab’s Gurdaspur district for sanitation work by the state […]
JAMMU — With the Navratri festival approaching, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) will start registration counters at the railway station in Katra for the ease of pilgrims in the wake of the expected influx to the cave shrine during the period. The board reviewed various arrangements in the run-up to the Navratras […]
JAMMU — Lashing out at former Jammu-Kashmir Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti for cancelling her campaign following the killing of Hezbollah commander Hassan Nasrallah, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Anurag Thakur said that parties like National Conference, People’s Democratic Party and Congress support militancy and not democracy. Attacking the Opposition parties further, Thakur said that these parties […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — A militant and Head Constable of Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed while DySP Operations and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) suffered injuries in an encounter in Kathua district of Jammu division. The encounter broke out between joint team of security forces and militants at Rasana village in Billawar area of Kathua district on […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — Ahead of the third phase of the Assembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir, scheduled for Tuesday, October 1, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suspended three leaders in Jammu on Saturday for anti-party activities. “BJP has suspended Sh. Amit Sharma, DDC Majalta, Sh. Prakshit Singh, DDC Jaganu, and Sh. Swarn Singh Rathore, District […]