JAMMU — The Jammu Municipal Corporation has seized about 40 metric tonnes of polythene from a warehouse here as part of a crackdown on storage and distribution of banned materials, an official said on Tuesday. JMC Commissioner Devansh Yadav, who led the operation in Rajiv Nagar area of Narwal on Monday night, said the seized […]
JAMMU — A 26-year-old Pakistani intruder was arrested along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday, officials said. The arrest came amid a diplomatic flare-up between India and Pakistan and almost daily ceasefire violations on the borders in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people, mostly […]
JAMMU — Four passengers including a soldier were killed and 44 others injured when a private bus skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday, officials said. Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed their grief over the accident. Abdullah rushed his […]
JAMMU — Police have arrested a man in Jammu for issuing fake appointment orders to gullible youth looking for government jobs, officials said on Monday. Multiple fake appointment orders, bogus stamps, electronic gadgets, including a computer, and Rs 2.5 lakh in cash were recovered from Tej Bushan Sharma, a resident of Lower Gadi Garh, who […]
R S PURA — With tensions escalating along the Indo-Pak border and fears of a war looming large, border villagers of Jammu are urgently appealing for the repair and completion of pending construction work of border bunkers that serve as their only shield during cross-border shelling. The recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, which claimed 26 […]
NEW DELHI — The communication system inside the escape tunnels between two sections of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Rail Link Project (USBRL) is incomplete and yet to be fine-tuned, the Northern Railway complained in a written communication to the Konkan Railway Communication Limited, its service provider. The final Katra-Sangaldan section of the 272-km USBRL project was to be […]
JAMMU — The BJP on Monday held a rally in Jammu, seeking the immediate deportation of illegally settled Rohingya and Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals. The rally was led by the BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit chief Sat Sharma, MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, and former minister Sham Lal Sharma. Hundreds of party workers marched to the […]
JAMMU — Security forces unearthed a terrorist hideout in a forest area in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the recovery of five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and two wireless sets, officials said on Monday. All the ready-to-use IEDs, weighing between half-a-kg and five kg, were destroyed in a controlled explosion on-the-spot, thwarting […]
JAMMU — At least 22 persons, including 12 women and eight children, were injured when the wall of a house collapsed during a marriage function at Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday, officials said. The incident took place at Dhani Dhar village soon after the bride reached the house in the evening, they said. […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — In a swift and coordinated action, District Police Jammu sealed a medical shop at Naugran Bishnah for violation of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, following the recovery of an illicit drugs. A telephonic message received by SHO Police Station Bishnah alerted police about a suspected consignment of illict drugs. Acting promptly on […]