Truck drivers coming back to work, normalcy would return in a day or two: AIMTC
New Delhi: Truck drivers, who went on strike to protest against the new stringent law on hit-and-run cases, have started coming back to work and normalcy will return in a day or two, truckers’ body All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) said on Wednesday. AIMTC on Tuesday appealed to protesting truck drivers to end their […]
India’s wheat output may touch new record of 114 million tonnes in 2023-24
New Delhi: Wheat production is expected to touch a new record of 114 million tonnes in the ongoing 2023-24 crop year on higher coverage and provided weather conditions remain normal, a top food ministry official said on Wednesday. The last leg of sowing of wheat, the main rabi (winter) crop, is underway and will continue […]
Criminal detained under PSA in Udhampur
Jammu: An alleged criminal was detained under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) in Udhampur district on Wednesday, police said. Ashraf Ali alias ‘Shifu’, a resident of Ramnagar, has become a threat to public peace and tranquillity, forcing the district magistrate to issue orders for his detention under the PSA, a police spokesperson said. He […]
Missing teenage girl’s body recovered in frozen form in Ladakh
Zanaskar/Jammu: The body of a missing teenage girl was on Wednesday recovered in frozen form in Ladakh’s Zanaskar area of Kargil district, police said. The 18-year-old girl named Stanzin Dolkar went missing in Zanaskar area on November 26 last year following which the police registered a case of missing on the complaint of her father. […]
Truckers’ protest leads to panic buying of fuel
Govt holds talks to resolve issue New Delhi: Protests were held in many states on the second day of the strike by some truckers’ associations against stricter punishments in the new law on hit-and-run cases, even as the government began talks on Tuesday with the agitating groups to end the stir that threatened to impact […]
Truckers’ strike hits fuel supply in JK, petrol pumps see huge rush
Jammu/Srinagar: There was massive queues at fuel stations across Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday as the truckers’ strike against stricter punishments in hit-and-run cases in the new law hit supplies in the region and triggered a panic-buying spree. The J-K fuel station owners’ association said 90 per cent of petrol pumps have gone dry in […]
Home Minister Amit Shah reviews security situation in JK
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, where five soldiers were killed by terrorists in an ambush in Poonch district a fortnight ago. A day after the December 21 terror attack, three civilians, aged between 27 and 42, were found dead after they were allegedly […]
SIA searches house in Jammu in terror financing case
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Special Investigation Agency (SIA) on Tuesday searched a house here in connection with a terror financing case involving a former minister, officials said. The raid was conducted at the house of a policeman, presently posted in Kashmir, in the Belicharana area in the outskirts of the city, the officials […]
J&K becomes first UT to implement PM Vishwakarma Yojana
Advisor Bhatnagar, Secy MSDE inaugurate training programme JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday became the first UT of country to implement prestigious PM Vishwakarma Yojana (PMVY) with the start of training for first batch of 30 trainees (Viswakarmas) in Darzi Craft at ITI Shopian in soth Kashmir. The yojana is a significant step towards empowering […]
Army probing civilian deaths in Poonch
Says those found guilty will definitely be punished New Delhi: The Army is conducting an internal probe into the death of three civilians in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir and those found guilty will “definitely be punished,” a senior government functionary said on Tuesday. Three civilians, aged between 27 and 42, were found dead […]
