JAMMU — Police on Thursday registered FIRs against owners of hotels and lodges for failing to install CCTV cameras in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district. “In compliance with the Reasi district magistrate’s order regarding the installation of CCTV cameras at hotels and lodges, police conducted a surprise check in the Katra town,” a police spokesman […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Congress on Thursday held a protest rally against the BJP-led central government’s alleged failure to check militancy in the union territory. They also protested against Pakistan for “aiding and abetting” militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. Led by Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Waqar Rasool Wani and working president Raman […]
JAMMU — Senior BSF and police officials gathered at a high-level interstate security review meeting in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua on Thursday, days after militants, who are believed to have infiltrated from across the International Border, ambushed an army patrol. Five army personnel, including a Junior Commissioned Officer, were killed and as many injured when […]
JAMMU — A blast occurred across the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. The blast occurred on Wednesday night. Suspicious movement was reported across the LoC in Laam sector late on Wednesday night. The blast occurred very close to the zero line during the movement, the […]
JAMMU — A mentally challenged man was apprehended along the Line of Control (LoC) by army personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. He was held around 11 am from the Phagwari area and handed over to police in Malikpura for further action, they said. — (PTI)
JAMMU — In a gruesome incident, the throat-slit bodies of newborn twins were recovered from their house in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday, an official said. The father of the female babies has been detained for questioning while the bodies were shifted to a hospital for post-mortem, officials reported. […]
JAMMU — At least 24 people have been detained for questioning as the hunt for the militants behind the ambush in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, in which five Army personnel were killed, entered its third day on Wednesday, officials said. The search operation by the Army and police is underway amid intermittent heavy rain […]
JAMMU — J&K Police have arrested a key suspect involved in a multi-crore money laundering operation and stealing secret official documents having serious security implications. Police sources said that the suspect identified as Tarun Bahl has been arrested from his Channi Himmat residence in Jammu city and booked under the Official Secrets Act and Section […]
NEW DELHI — The NIA’s interrogation of an arrested accused in the attack on a bus carrying pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi last month has pointed towards the role of Pakistan-based handlers of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, officials said on Tuesday. Nine people were killed and 41 injured on June 9 when militants opened […]
JAMMU — A girl died of electrocution, and 11 others suffered minor injuries at a Madrasa in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday night, officials said. The girls, studying in Madrasa, were playing in the compound when they suffered an electric shock from an iron grill in the complex, they said. Twelve girls were […]