Drug peddler detained under PITNDPS Act in Rajouri
Jammu: A drug peddler was on Saturday detained under the stringent Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PITNDPS) Act in Rajouri district, police said. The drug peddler, identified as Sahil Sharma alias “Sahu”, is a resident of Dandesar village in Nowshera and is a notorious drug peddler involved in multiple cases, […]
Police foil Congress protest march to demand statehood restoration
Srinagar: Police on Saturday foiled a protest march by Congress leaders and workers here, seeking the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Led by Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra, the workers gathered at the party office here, with plans to march towards the office of the […]
Woman dies of bullet injury in Kishtwar
Jammu: A 35-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a bullet from the weapon of a village defence guard in a remote village in Kishtwar district, officials on Saturday said. Pushpa Devi, the wife of Rakesh Kumar, ventured out of her house in Aragam village in Chatroo area when she was hit by a […]
Fresh batch of over 6,000 pilgrims embark on Amarnath Yatra from Jammu
Jammu: A fresh batch of 6,365 pilgrims, including 1,499 women and 441 children, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here on Saturday to join the ongoing annual Amarnath Yatra in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The pilgrims, which included 135 sadhus and sadhvis, left for the twin base camps of Nunwan-Pahalgam in Anantnag and […]
Mortar shell defused near LoC in Jammu
Jammu: An unexploded mortar shell was found and subsequently defused by experts in a forward village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu’s Akhnoor sector on Saturday, officials said. The mortar shell was noticed lying at a secluded place by some villagers in the outskirts of Dhalery village this evening, the officials said. They […]
US designates LeT proxy TRF as foreign terrorist organisation
India calls move ‘timely’ Washington/New Delhi: The US has designated The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a “foreign terrorist organisation” over the Pahalgam terror attack, a move welcomed by India as a “timely and important” step reflecting strong counter-terror cooperation between the two countries. US Secretary of State […]
