JAMMU — Flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall inundated the Ari area of Mendhar sub-division in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Friday, damaging several houses and leaving dozens of people stranded, officials said. Police personnel launched a rescue operation and safely evacuated at least 25 people as floodwaters entered the area, they said. Locals […]
JAMMU — Army officials defused an old, unexploded mortar shell found in an agricultural field in the forward area of Poonch district on Thursday, after villagers noticed the shell while harvesting maize in Kussalian village and subsequently alerted authorities, officials said. “We were harvesting maize in our field when we suddenly spotted an old, unexploded […]
JAMMU — A woman was severely injured after being attacked by a wild bear in a hamlet in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said. The woman, identified as Tazeem Akhtar, was attacked outside her residence in Arai village of Mandi tehsil, they said. She sustained grievous injuries and was initially taken to […]
JAMMU — A 31-year-old Pakistani intruder was apprehended by Indian Army troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch on Sunday, the third such incident in the district this month, officials said. Rayees Khan, a resident of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, was taken into custody from Balakote sector shortly after he crossed the […]
JAMMU — Army troops apprehended a 26-year-old infiltrator, a resident of PoK, along the LoC in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. Mohammad Sajad was taken into custody after entering the Indian side from across the border through the Gulpur area of the Krishna Ghati sector on Friday, the officials […]
JAMMU — Three women sustained injuries after being attacked by bears in two villages of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. The attack took place in the Shamer and Gadar hamlets in the Mandi belt of the border district. A medical officer at the Poonch district hospital said that two of the […]
JAMMU — In a humanitarian gesture, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday reunited a 30-year-old mentally unsound man, who was stranded in the border district of Poonch for nine years, with his family from West Bengal. The family of Sudesh Pal Topno, son of Abhiram Topno, who was unable to provide details about his family […]
JAMMU — A 12-year-old girl who had been missing for five days was found dead in a river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, prompting police to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case. Ikra Firdous, a resident of Adhai village in the Mandi area of Poonch, had gone missing on May […]
JAMMU — A 14-year-old Pakistani boy was detained by the Army after crossing the Line of Control (LoC) into the Indian side in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. The teenager was intercepted by the alert troops in the forward area shortly after he crossed the border in Nagri Tekri area […]
JAMMU — Army troops opened fire at a Pakistani drone after it intruded into Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, but it returned to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) after briefly hovering over some forward Indian posts, officials said on Tuesday. The drone was spotted over some forward Indian posts in the Balakote area of […]