MENDHAR — Five landmines were detected and safely destroyed by the Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. While two landmines were detected by an Army patrol party near the border fence in Basoni top area on Saturday morning, three others had been found […]
MENDHAR — Army troops on Thursday detected and destroyed a landmine along the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar subdivision of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said. The landmine was detected during routine patrolling in Balakote forward area and subsequently destroyed by a bomb disposal team, they said. As part of an anti-infiltration obstacle […]
JAMMU — A 19-year-old woman from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was apprehended by the Indian Army after she allegedly crossed the LoC and entered Indian territory in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. The woman, identified as Samiya Azeem, a resident of Bains Gala village in Khuiretta tehsil of Kotli district, was intercepted […]
JAMMU — A drone suspected to be from Pakistan was spotted hovering over forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, prompting security forces to launch a search operation in the area early Saturday, officials said. The drone was noticed at Balakote area’s Behrooti village in Mendhar sector late […]
JAMMU — Two rusted mortar shells were detected and safely destroyed by the Army in the Mankote sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. The unexploded ordnance was found in the Choki Sagra area of the Mendhar sub-division, they said. Army personnel of bomb disposal squad destroyed the shells in a […]
JAMMU — Two Army personnel were injured in a landmine explosion near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday evening, officials said. The soldiers were trying to defuse the landmine at Kanga Gali in Mendhar sector when it went off, the officials said. They said the injured […]
JAMMU — In one of the biggest narcotics recoveries along the Line of Control (LoC) in recent years, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday seized five kilograms of high-grade heroin smuggled from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, officials said. The seizure was made during a meticulously planned anti-drug operation in village […]
JAMMU — Army troops opened fire after noticing a suspicious movement along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. The small arms firing was reported from the Tarkundi forward area around 10 pm on Friday and continued for nearly one-and-a-half hours. However, there were no […]
JAMMU — A Pakistani intruder retreated across the International Border after Border Security Force personnel fired warning shots when he attempted to enter Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Sunday, officials said. BSF troops observed the intruder’s movement in the Bobiya area of Hiranagar sector this evening and challenged him, the officials […]
JAMMU — A search operation was launched early Monday after a suspected Pakistani drone was sighted over a forward village along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said. The drone-like object, fitted with a blinking light, was observed over the forward villages of Meenka and Beripattan in the Sunderbani […]