JAMMU — A Hizbul Mujahideen operative was arrested as the security forces conducted search operations in different parts of Poonch, Rajouri, Kishtwar and Doda districts in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. Abdul Khalil, a resident of north Kashmir’s Bandipora, was arrested from Surankote area of Poonch district during an anti-militancy operation, the officials […]
JAMMU — Security forces have launched a cordon and search operation following information about movement of two suspected militants in a remote village in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. The two armed suspects, dressed in black, were seen moving in Salampura village near Dehra Ki Gali late Monday night, they […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — A soldier was killed after the Indian Army foiled an infiltration attempt in the Battal Sector of the Krishna Ghati area in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday. During the exchange of fire between the Indian Army and the infiltrating militants at around 3:00 AM, one soldier was injured. The […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — The Indian Army on Tuesday foiled an infiltration attempt at Battal Sector in Krishna Ghati area of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir. During the exchange of fire between Indian Army and infiltrating militants at around 03:00 am, one Army personnel was injured. The Indian Army’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps said, “Alert […]
JAMMU — A mentally challenged man was apprehended along the Line of Control (LoC) by army personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. He was held around 11 am from the Phagwari area and handed over to police in Malikpura for further action, they said. — (PTI)
JAMMU — In a gruesome incident, the throat-slit bodies of newborn twins were recovered from their house in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday, an official said. The father of the female babies has been detained for questioning while the bodies were shifted to a hospital for post-mortem, officials reported. […]
JAMMU — A girl died of electrocution, and 11 others suffered minor injuries at a Madrasa in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday night, officials said. The girls, studying in Madrasa, were playing in the compound when they suffered an electric shock from an iron grill in the complex, they said. Twelve girls were […]
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency will probe last year’s militant attack on an Army convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch that left five personnel dead, officials said on Tuesday. The process to take over the investigation into the matter has started and a case will be registered soon, they said. The probe will […]
JAMMU — Army troops fired a few rounds to shoot down a Pakistani drone along the Line of Control in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. The drone, however, returned to Pakistan after briefly hovering over the Indian territory late Monday night, they said. Indian troops, […]
JAMMU — Fire engulfed two forest areas in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in the Jammu region on Wednesday, causing damage to vast tracts of land, officials said. In Poonch, the fire erupted in Bhatadurian area near the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar belt and spread to nearby areas, they said. The […]