JAMMU — A school teacher was apprehended for allegedly alluring and demanding sexual favours from a minor student by threatening to fail her in the internal examination in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. The action against the teacher, posted at the Government Higher Secondary School Bhaderwah, was taken following […]
RAMBAN — Three people were killed and more than 100 rescued after heavy rain triggered flash floods at different places in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district early on Sunday, officials said. The incessant rain also triggered landslides and mudslides at nearly a dozen places between Nashri and Banihal along the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, prompting […]
RAMBAN — More than 100 people were rescued after heavy rain triggered a flash flood in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district early on Sunday, officials said. The incessant rain also triggered landslides and mudslides at nearly a dozen places between Nashri and Banihal along the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, prompting traffic to […]
JAMMU — The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda have imposed an immediate ban on the storage, sale, display and distribution of ‘Cool Lip’, a smokeless tobacco product, in the district, officials said on Saturday. Additional district magistrate (ADM) Anil Kumar Thakur announced the ban on ‘Cool Lip’ in a “decisive step to safeguard public […]
JAMMU — Two persons, including a woman, were killed and another woman sustained injuries after they were struck by lightning in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Saturday, officials said. They said that over 100 houses suffered damages due to gusty winds in Rajouri district. Two women, identified as Shahnaz Begum […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday said that peace would be established in the Jammu region of the Union Territory, hit by a spate of terror attacks in the recent past, within the next six months. Sinha made these remarks at an interaction with the members of YPO-Global One, an […]
JAMMU — Union minister Jitendra Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday jointly inaugurated the first-ever Municipal Parking Complex in Kathua district with the former hailing the latter’s presence as a gesture of “centre-state cooperation”. Singh, who is representing the Udhampur constituency, which also comprises Kathua, in Parliament for the third […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday met with Dhunseri Group Chairman Chandra Kumar Dhanuka and discussed investment plans in the union territory. Dhanuka, accompanied by Chief Executive Officer R K Sharma, briefed Abdullah on their proposed investment for establishing a Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene Films (BOPP) manufacturing unit in Kathua, the […]
JAMMU — The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) on Friday directed all officers to stay on high alert in view of the forecast of heavy rains and high-speed storm here. The JMC advised residents to stay indoors during severe weather and report emergencies. “There should be no loss of life or property during this period,” said […]
JAMMU — A high-level Congress team led by national general secretary Syed Naseer Hussain on Friday called on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah here and discussed the current political landscape in the Union Territory. Flanked by AICC general secretary G A Mir and Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra, the Rajya […]