JAMMU — Security forces on Thursday launched cordon and search operations following inputs about suspicious movement at different places in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Doda districts, police officials said. The search operations are underway at Jadan Wali Gali, Sani Gali Mohalla, Nadan Wala in Gursai-Harni belt, Dharana Behir Rakh in Mendhar, Fazalabad Nar in […]
POONCH — Four army personnel were injured after their vehicle skidded off the road and overturned into a ditch in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. The accident took place at Gantar Morh in Sawjian area when the troops were returning to their camp after patrolling, the officials said. Local volunteers […]
ISLAMABAD — The family of a mentally challenged man from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Sunday urged authorities for his repatriation after he inadvertently crossed the Line of Control into India, according to a media report. Yasir Faiz, a resident of Tetrinote village of PoK, was taken into custody by police from Salotri border village around […]
POONCH — At least three landmines exploded due to a forest fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district on Sunday, officials said. A fire broke out in Behrooti forest ahead of the border fence in Mendhar sector around 4 pm and detonated a few landmines, they said. The blasts resounded in the […]
JAMMU — A Pakistani intruder was arrested after he crossed the Line of Control (LoC) into Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. Mohammad Yasir Faiz, a resident of Tetrinote village of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), was taken into custody by police from Salotri border village around 11.30 pm on Saturday, the officials […]
POONCH — A record room at Mendhar sub-district hospital complex in Jammu and Kashnir’s Poonch district was damaged in a fire on Saturday, officials said. The fire broke out in the record room inside an old building around 9 am, but timely intervention of hospital staff, fire and emergency services personnel, Army, police and CRPF […]
JAMMU — Fire broke out on Saturday in Goverment Sub-district hospital Mendhar in Poonch district. Officials told GNS that this morning fire erupted from one of the room of old Building of Sub-district hospital mendhar. Soon a team of police and Fire tenders reached the spot and where trying to douse off the fire. BMO […]
SRINAGAR — The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday alleged that the Jammu and Kashmir government was using education as a “propaganda tool” by “forcing” students to attend a Tiranga rally organised by the RSS-affiliated ABVP, calling it unacceptable. “The J&K Education Department, under the NC government, has made it mandatory for both private and […]
POONCH — Army troops opened fire to bring down a Pakistani drone which entered into the Indian side from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu early Wednesday, officials said. However, the drone returned to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) after hovering briefly over an area near the border fence in Mendhar sector, […]
POONCH — An army soldier was injured in a landmine explosion near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. The 32-year-old soldier was part of a patrolling party when he accidentally stepped over the landmine in Krishna Ghati sector, the officials said. They said the mine […]