Bangladesh national nabbed for illegal entry in Reasi
Jammu: A Bangladeshi national was apprehended for allegedly entering Indian territory without valid travel documents from Katra in Reasi district, police said on Saturday. Fahim Ahmed was observed acting suspiciously by a police party performing routine checking near Asia Chowk, the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, a police spokesman said. […]
License of four pharma firms cancelled for illegal drug trade
Jammu: The license of four pharmaceutical firms has been cancelled after they were allegedly found indulging in “clandestine purchase and sale” of addictive drugs in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Saturday. State Drugs Controller-cum-Licensing Authority Lotika Khajuria ordered enforcement action against Healthways Pharma, Rajouri, Nuegene Pharmaceutical Distributors and N T Traders of Baramulla […]
Army rescues pangolin near LoC in Jammu
Jammu: Army personnel rescued a pangolin near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Akhnoor sector here, while a leopard was shifted to safety after it ventured into a village in Rajouri district, officials said on Saturday. The pangolin, believed to have entered the Indian side from across the LoC, was spotted by an Army […]
Five dead, 1 injured as SUV falls into gorge in J-K’s Ramban
Ramban/Jammu: Five people were killed and another was critically injured when a private passenger vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a 600-feet gorge in Ramban district, officials said on Saturday. The SUV met with the accident near Senabathi in Ukhral Pogal Paristan area late Friday, they said. Rescuers found one of the passengers […]
LoP Bengal Assembly Adhikari should visit Kashmir, says BJP leader Raina
The BJP leader sparked controversy by advising people not to visit JK Jammu: As BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s remarks asking people of West Bengal not to visit Kashmir or any Muslim-majority area sparked a row, a senior leader of his party from J-K on Saturday said Adhikari should visit Kashmir to experience the patriotism and […]
Dalai Lama arrives on month-long tour of Ladakh
Leh: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, received a grand welcome upon his arrival here on Saturday on a month-long tour to the Union Territory of Ladakh, officials said. Dressed in traditional attire, hundreds of people, including women, children and monks, lined up on both sides of the road from the airport to Shewatsel Phodrang […]