Added on December 22, 2025
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Srinagar, Dec 21 (PTI) The first-ever foodgrain freight train of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) reached the Anantnag Goods Terminal here in Kashmir on Sunday, formally integrating the region with the national freight rail network, official said. “The freight rake, carrying approximately 1,384 tonnes of food grains loaded in wagons, was dispatched from Ajitwal […]
Added on December 22, 2025
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Jammu, Dec 21 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat on Sunday visited the Crime Branch headquarters here and reviewed the functioning of the department. The police chief inspected all wings housed in the Crime Branch Complex and held a meeting attended by senior officers including Inspector General of Police, Crime Branch […]
Added on December 22, 2025
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Abuja, Dec 22 (AP) Some 130 schoolchildren and staff abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month by gunmen have been released, police said Sunday. Gunmen seized at least 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in Nigeria’s north-central Niger state when they attacked St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community on Nov 21. Fifty escaped […]
Added on December 22, 2025
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Jammu, Dec 21 (PTI) Paddy procurement in the Jammu region has reached 4.47 lakh quintals during the ongoing Kharif marketing season, the highest ever in the region, an official said on Sunday. The procurement has surpassed the previous peak of 4.05 lakh quintals achieved during the 2021–22 Kharif marketing season, marking a significant rise in […]
Added on December 22, 2025
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Jammu, Dec 21 (PTI) In two separate incidents, police seized a “Chinese-made” weapon-mountable telescope from a locality here on Sunday and apprehended a 24-year-old man for questioning in Samba district, officials said. “Jammu (Rural) Police recovered a telescope (that can be mounted on a weapon) from the Sidhra area,” a police spokesperson said. A six-year-old […]
Added on December 22, 2025
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Jammu, Dec 21 (PTI) The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has transferred the probe into the unnatural death of a 13-year-old minor girl to CBI, directing the agency to submit a status report to the chief judicial magistrate here within three months of commencing the investigation. The girl’s father, Mukhtyar Ali, a […]
Added on December 22, 2025
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Srinagar: The Economic Offences Wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch has filed a chargesheet against five persons, including two senior revenue officials, in a land fraud case, an official said on Sunday. “The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) filed the chargesheet under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B RPC read with Section 5(2) of […]
Added on December 21, 2025
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Fog envelopes northern states, ‘Chillai-Kalan’ begins in Kashmir New Delhi: As the year draws to a close, mercury hovered around its wintry lows and normal life was affected across northern states due to foggy conditions, with red alert warning issued in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The national capital was in the grip of a cold […]
Added on December 21, 2025
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Jammu: The first foodgrain freight train of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) from Punjab is scheduled to reach the newly developed south Kashmir goods terminal on Sunday, marking a key step in strengthening the region’s supply and logistics network, railway officials said. The FCI’s grain freight train was recently flagged off from Ajitwal Railway […]
Added on December 21, 2025
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Anti-terror ops intensified along IB, say officials Jammu: Security forces have intensified anti-terror operations across the Jammu region following intelligence inputs about a possible infiltration attempt by terrorists from across the border amid dense fog, officials said on Saturday. Search operations by police, Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Army personnel […]
