Govt school teacher arrested for ‘sexually abusing’ girl students in Rajouri

Rajouri/Jammu: A government school teacher has been arrested on the charges of sexual abuse and harassment of girl students in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, police said on Sunday. Ashraf Qureshi, the accused, was posted at the Government Higher Secondary School, Saaj in the Thanamandi sub-division, a police spokesperson said. He said a case under […]

17 cops, 3 detainees injured in road accident in Ramban

Banihal/Jammu: Seventeen police personnel and three women detainees were injured when a police bus carrying them rammed into an Army vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Sunday, police said. The police bus was on its way to Bhaderwah sub-jail in Doda district from Srinagar’s central jail, a police official said. The accident took […]

CRPF jawan shoots himself dead in Ramban

Banihal/Jammu: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan allegedly shot himself dead with his service rifle in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. Bashit Narayan Yadav, a resident of Bihar, was on duty near Banihal-Qazigund Tunnel along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway when he shot himself around 11.45 pm on Saturday, they […]

Soldier electrocuted to death in Samba

Samba/Jammu: An Army personnel was electrocuted to death when he came in contact with a live wire inside a camp in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. Deepak Pandey (25) of engineering squadron was electrocuted late Sunday night while working on some product, the officials said. They said the soldier hailing […]

Minor girl mauled to death by leopard in Udhampur

Jammu: A four-year-old girl was mauled to death allegedly by a leopard in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, officials said on Sunday. The girl, identified as Tanu, was allegedly taken away by the leopard when she ventured out of her home at Upper Banjala in the district’s Panchari area around 8.30 pm on Saturday, the […]

Chandrayaan-3, Aditya-L1 outcomes of PM’s progressive policy decisions: Union Minister

Jammu: Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1 are the outcomes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s progressive policy decisions, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Sunday, asserting that ISRO now has the capacity to compete with NASA and Roscosmos in space expeditions. The lander module of Chandrayaan-3 — the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme developed by the Indian […]

Two LeT OGWs arrested in Baramulla

Srinagar: Two overground workers (OGW) of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said. The two were identified as Tawseef Ramazan Bhat and Moien Amin Bhat alias Momin, residents of Sheeri, Baramulla, they said. Based on specific inputs, a joint naka was established near Shirkwara bus […]

JK moving towards becoming terror-free: DGP

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir is moving towards becoming a terror-free region, the Union territory’s police chief Dilbag Singh said on Saturday, noting that terror incidents are drastically down and the number of active terrorists is at an all-time low. Singh, the director general of J-K Police, spoke to reporters on the sidelines of a function […]

Apple growers worried over less production, small fruit size

Say there was good demand but inclement weather, diseases hits industry

Srinagar: The inclement weather in spring months coupled with outbreak of diseases has badly affected the apple production in Kashmir, the distressed growers said. The apple growers from various areas of the valley said that those associated with traditional Kulu and other delicious varieties are “very much” distressed as they have “very little” production. The […]