RAJOURI — A second batch of 32 villagers, who were lodged in an isolation centre owing to mysterious deaths in their village, returned home in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. Seventeen members of three families, including 13 children, died under mysterious circumstances after falling sick in the remote Badhaal […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — While continuing on war against the menace of drug trade, Jammu and Kashmir Police have attached two residential houses valuing lakhs of Rupees in Rajeev Nagar area of Jammu district on Saturday. The Jammu and Kashmir Police attached residential houses of two notorious drug peddlers identified as Poonam, wife of Late Satveer […]
KATRA — Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha said Saturday a fresh look is needed at the teaching-mentoring system to seize future opportunities in science and technology for ‘Viksit Bharat’. He said skills and knowledge must contribute towards improving the lives of people. “To seize future opportunities in science and technology, we need to […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — Cyber police Jammu successfully recovered an amount of ₹7,59,510/- from fraudsters in separate cyber crime complaints who used to deceive the people by adopting different tactics regarding online trading and investment and extract money from victims. In two complaints the victim was told that money had been transferred to their account by […]
KATRA — A new journey began in Jammu and Kashmir after the “historic” abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 with the sacred region no longer considered a conflict zone and the hopes of its people soaring high, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Saturday. In an apparent reference to BJP ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Dhankhar said […]
KATRA — Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday paid obeisance at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said. Dhankhar reached Katra, the base camp for the pilgrims visiting the revered shrine, on a day-long visit to preside as chief guest the 10th convocation of Shri Mata […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will present his maiden budget on March 7, officials said, as he continued his pre-budget consultations engaging with public representatives from Poonch and Rajouri districts here on Friday. According to a provisional calendar issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly secretariat, the nearly month-long session will […]
JAMMU — An army personnel was injured by a gunfire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor sector near here on Friday, security officials said. The soldier was manning a forward post in Battal area when he received a bullet apparently from across the border, the officials said. They said that the injured was […]
JAMMU — Highlighting his government’s commitment to improving healthcare accessibility across Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday emphasized the need to improve handling of emergency cases and capacity at various Government Medical Colleges to ease the burden on major hospitals. Abdullah also stressed the importance of ensuring that doctors serve beyond urban […]
JAMMU — Inspector General of BSF, Jammu frontier, Shashank Anand called on Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha here on Friday and discussed various issues of border security with him, a spokesperson said. A Haryana cadre IPS officer, Anand took over as the new IG of BSF on February 7, replacing D K Boora who had held […]