JAMMU — Security forces have busted a suspected terrorist hideout in a forest area of Rajouri district, seizing ration and cooking utensils, officials said. The hideout was found during an area domination search operation in the Bhangai forest belt of Thanamandi on Thursday evening, they said. Officials said the hideout had been constructed in a […]
JAMMU — A few clerical sections at the deputy commissioner’s office in Rajouri were emptied on Monday over damage caused by heavy rain, an official said. The sections were vacated after Deputy Commissioner Abhishek Sharma ordered a structural safety assessment of the building, the official said. Engineers and personnel from the National Disaster Response Force […]
JAMMU — With the weather improving, the Army deployed a specially trained dog squad to aid the search for a government employee washed away in flash floods in Rajouri district, officials said on Monday. Rescue teams have intensified efforts to locate six other missing victims in neighbouring Poonch district. All seven people have been missing […]
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 — 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 — The Congress on Thursday demanded the Centre declare the recent floods in Jammu and Kashmir a “national disaster” and announce a special relief and rehabilitation package for the affected population, particularly in the worst-hit districts of Poonch, Rajouri and Ramban. At least 26 people were killed and six others went missing as torrential […]
JAMMU — The death toll in the recent rain-triggered flash floods and landslides across Jammu region rose to 26 on Thursday with the recovery of the body of a 25-year-old woman from Poonch district, officials said. The body of Khalida Kouser, wife of Yasar Iqbal of Murrah village, was recovered near the Fazalabad footbridge in […]