JK registered significant decline in Infant Mortality Rate: Lt Guv
Inaugurates J&K's First Maternal & Child Health Conclave
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said that J&K has registered significant decline in the Infant Mortality Rate during the last one year. “The administration envisions to further decrease the Maternal and Child mortality to establish UT at the forefront of providing quality healthcare,” he said. The Lt Guv said this while inaugurating J&K’s […]
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 […]
Unidentified terrorist killed in Sopore encounter
Srinagar: An unidentified terrorist was killed in a gunfight at Zaloora area of North Kashmir’s Sopore on Monday, an official said. A senior police officer while confirming the incident said that one terrorist has been killed, whose identity is yet to be ascertained. Earlier a joint team of Police and army launched a cordon and […]
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 […]
JK reports rise in temperature
Srinagar: Jammu division as well as a few districts in Kashmir division including Srinagar, the summer capital of the Union Territory is reeling under heat wave as the maximum temperature touched above 30 degree Celsius on Monday. According to the data most of the areas in Jammu division witnessed above 40 degree Celsius temperature on […]
JK reports three new covid-19 cases
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported three new covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the virus during the past 24 hours, officials said on Monday. They said that two cases were reported from Jammu district and one from Srinagar, taking the overall tally to 454283—166501 in Jammu division and 287782 in Kashmir. There […]
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 […]
