JAMMU — A 35-year-old CBI lawyer died in a vehicle collision on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district, officials said on Friday. A video purportedly showing the advocate’s car being hit from behind by a speeding vehicle near Banihal went viral on social media. The victim, Sheikh Adil Nabi, was recently appointed as a […]
JAMMU — Police have registered a case against a Bangladeshi woman in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Saturday for illegally entering and staying in India in violation of immigration laws, officials said. Happu Akhter, a resident of the Habiganj district of Bangladesh, was booked after police received reliable information about her presence in the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday laid the foundation stone for construction of new homes for families affected by recent natural calamities in Udhampur and Ramban districts. As many as 530 houses — 341 in Udhampur and 189 in Ramban — will be constructed at a cost of Rs 34 […]
JAMMU — The police in Ramban district have intensified their crackdown on sympathisers and over ground workers (OGW) linked to Jammu and Kashmir natives based in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, officials said on Monday. In a bid to bolster security in the region, police have stepped up scrutiny of SIM card vendors and strengthened security measures along […]
JAMMU — Authorities have initiated an inquiry against three doctors, posted at the Primary Health Centre (PHC) Khari in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, for their alleged absence from duty, officials said on Monday. The matter came to light following a road accident in a remote village in the district on Monday, they said. Five […]
JAMMU — Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the administration in Ramban town would identify alternative places for a permanent resettlement of the population of ecologically-vulnerable places in the hilly district. The minister of state in the prime minister’s office was speaking at a public durbar, organised in Ramban as part of his ongoing […]
JAMMU — A resident of Bihar was arrested for allegedly killing a woman and her two children in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, police said on Friday. The matter came to light when police received information about three bodies lying under a culvert on the highway at the Rattanbasti area of Banihal on Tuesday. Police […]
RAMBAN — Three policemen were injured when a vehicle, part of the escort of a High Court judge, skidded off the road and turned turtle on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district on Friday, officials said. The accident took place in the Wagan-Nachilana area when a Gypsy escorting the judge’s vehicle overturned due to […]
RAMBAN — Three Army personnel were killed when their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a 700-feet deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Sunday, officials said. The army truck was part of a convoy moving from Jammu to Srinagar along national highway 44 when the accident occurred near Battery Chashma […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir BJP on Wednesday called for adequate compensation to the families hit by flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains and cloudbursts in the Ramban district. The demand was raised by a party delegation led by the Union Territory president Sat Sharma, who visited the district which was hit by […]