Jammu News

Over 150 crows were found dead in three districts of Jammu region triggering a bird flu scare and samples have been sent for testing to a wildlife lab in Punjab, officials said on Friday.

Pakistani troops on Monday opened fire and shelled mortars in forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, a defence spokesperson said.

Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire and resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling in forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said.

Pakistan on Sunday shelled mortars on forward areas along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, drawing befitting retaliation by the Indian Army, a defence spokesperson said.

An Army officer in Jammu was duped of Rs 1.41 crore by five people posing as Union Finance Ministry officials, the Crime Branch said on Saturday.

A man in Reasi district in Jammu was duped of over Rs 19 lakh by a gang of cyber fraudsters led by a woman who claimed to be an official in the RBI Forex Department, New Delhi, officials said Wednesday.

The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway reopened today after remaining closed for the past two days owing to multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains, officials said.

The much-awaited Jammu ropeway project, aimed at boosting tourism in the winter capital of the Union territory, was launched by Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu today.

Pakistani troops on Saturday shelled mortars along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, drawing a strong retaliation from the Indian Army, a defence spokesperson said.

Senior police and Army officers on Friday said that the last one-and-a-half years have been the most peaceful times in Jammu and Kashmir and with every successful anti-terror operation, security forces are moving on the path of peace.

The recent "uncoordinated" acts of violence in North Kashmir are "signs of desperation" by terrorists and are not finding resonance among people who want to get out of the cycle of violence - a fact visible in the sharp dip this year in the recruitment of local youths in terror groups, a senior Army officer has said.

The Jammu & Kashmir government on Friday increased the tax on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre and Re 1 per litre, respectively, an official spokesperson said.

The chairman of the Jhelum Co-operative House Building Society (JCHBS) has been arrested in an alleged Rs 223-crore land scam involving the Jammu and Kashmir State Co-operative Bank in Srinagar, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) saidon Monday.

A 32-year-old woman, hailing from Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, gave birth to a baby girl while being shifted to a hospital in Jammu in a police van on Sunday, police said.

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked at over a dozen places by landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district, leaving hundreds of trucks carrying essential commodities to Kashmir stranded, officials said today.