JAMMU — The 12th batch of more than 3,800 devotees left from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for the Amarnath cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas on Monday, officials said. With this, 1,27,326 pilgrims have left the Jammu base camp, the officials said. Chants of “Bam Bam Bhole” and “Har Har Mahadev” rent […]
JAMMU — Security forces on Monday launched search operations in several forward areas along the International Border (IB) and the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba and Rajouri districts following overnight sightings of suspected Pakistani drones, officials said. The drone activity was observed by alert army troops in Nandpur, near the IB […]
JAMMU — A 51-mm mortar shell was found in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday, and later destroyed in a controlled explosion by the bomb disposal squad, officials said. The mortar shell was found lying in an open field by farmers in Kayan village in Rajdhani area around 4 pm, officials said. On getting […]
JAMMU — Senior Congress leader Shahnawaz Choudhary on Sunday urged the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government to declare the widespread rain-induced damage in the border districts of Poonch and Rajouri a “natural calamity”. Calling the scale of disaster “unprecedented”, Choudhary, President of the Poonch District Congress Committee (DCC), was disappointed that neither Chief Minister […]
JAMMU — Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar has directed all deputy commissioners to ensure that school buildings found unsafe or damaged due to recent rains are immediately locked and kept out of use until necessary repairs are completed, an official spokesman said on Sunday. All chief agriculture officers have also been directed to assess the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Environment Javed Ahmed Rana has said there was a need to strengthen disaster resilience in vulnerable areas and directed the administration to prepare a comprehensive long-term disaster mitigation plan in Poonch district, where 18 were killed in rain-related incidents. Reviewing the situation on the ground, Rana, who is […]
JAMMU — The Crime Branch has filed chargesheets against 10 accused in two separate cases in Jammu, including a Rs 30.29 lakh investment fraud involving a Rajasthan-based company, and a forgery case involving the fraudulent procurement of permanent resident certificates using forged revenue records, an official said on Sunday. In the first case, the official […]
JAMMU — A 45-year-old woman was killed while her husband and son sustained injuries after their house collapsed in Rajouri district as light to moderate rains again lashed most parts of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. The woman’s death has pushed the rain-related death toll in J&K to 30 since July 19. Six […]
JAMMU — Two women were killed and five of their relatives were injured after a tempo traveller skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in Doda district here on Saturday, officials said. The incident took place near Jathali village when the driver of the vehicle, which was on its way to Doda from […]
JAMMU — A special NIA court has rejected the interim bail application of dismissed police officer Devinder Singh but allowed him a five-day custody parole on humanitarian grounds to attend the post-death rituals of his father in Srinagar next week. Singh, who was posted with the anti-hijacking cell of police attached to the Srinagar airport, […]