Amarnath Yatra: Teams to be positioned along Jmu-Sgr NH to help pilgrims

Jammu: Rescue teams will be deployed along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway to provide help to pilgrims during the upcoming Amarnath yatra, police said on Monday. The decision to deploy the rescue teams on the highway, especially in slide-prone areas, was taken at a security review meeting chaired by Superintendent of Police, Ramban, Mohita Sharma, a […]

Six-member SIT to probe temple vandalism in Bhaderwah

Police also lodges FIR

Bhaderwah/Jammu: The police on Monday constituted a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged vandalism at a temple in Doda district here that sparked protests in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The police have already registered a case after pictures of the alleged vandalism at Lord Vasuki Nag temple, situated […]

Threat – 780 cases of ‘monkeypox’ reported as of June 2: WHO

United Nations/Geneva: A total of 780 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported or identified since May 13 and as of June 2 from 27 countries across four WHO regions that are not endemic for the monkeypox virus, the World Health Organisation has said. The UN’s health agency said that while epidemiological investigations are ongoing, […]

Security forces alert to threat of drones from across border: BSF

Jammu: The threat of drones is present everywhere along the Indo-Pakistan border but security forces are alert to foil any nefarious design from across the border in the region, a senior Border Security Force (BSF) said on Monday. He said that Army and BSF are fully dominating the Line of Control (LoC) to ensure the […]

Suspected terrorist arrested with IED in Doda

Jammu: A suspected terrorist was arrested Monday, along with an improvised explosive device (IED), from his house in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police officer said. The arrest and recovery of the IED followed busting of a module run by local Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Amin alias Khubaib , who is presently […]

Man, his son drown in river at Kathua

Jammu: A man and his son died after drowning in a river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Monday, officials said. Ashok was taking a bath in the Naaz-Phinnu river in the Billawar area, when he slipped into deep waters, they said. His father Seva Rama jumped into river to save him but both […]