Prohibitory orders under CrPC section 144 were lifted in five Jammu districts and restrictions were relaxed in Doda and Kishtwar, paving the way for resumption of normal activities that were badly hit after special status of Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated, officials said today.
Three special police officers were arrested from the outskirts in Jammu for allegedly possessing 75 grams of heroin following which one of them was disengaged from service while necessary action was recommended for the remaining two from Kashmir, police said on Tuesday.
Four persons including three members of a family were killed and two others critically injured on Saturday after their SUV skidded off the road and plunged into a 500-ft-deep gorge in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
Nearly 150 huts, including 41 of Rohingya refugees, were gutted in a massive fire in Jammu in the early hours of Monday. Residents claimed that wind fuelled the flames and fire tenders were late in reaching the spot.
A letter threatening to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi before his swearing-in ceremony on May 30 was received at the BJP office here, but the police found after investigation that it was a "mischief" committed by somebody, a senior officer said Sunday.
'The success rate of ''Samba Super-40 project'' has been nothing less than spectacular and is proving to be an ideal platform for training of future of our country,' Lt Col Anand said.
With no movement of security convoy scheduled during the day, civilian traffic was allowed on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway today, when it was supposed to be used exclusively by forces under an official order, authorities said.
The fate of 12 candidates, including Union minister Jitendra Singh, will be decided by the over 16.85 lakh voters of Udhampur in the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls on April 18.
Mohammad Sharik and Mohammad Riyaz, the two people killed in Thursday's grenade attack at a bus stand in Jammu, had one thing in common -- both were living away from their homes in a different city to earn a living.
A suspicious object outside the main entrance to Jammu airport triggered panic among residents today, officials said. On inspection, it turned out to be an electric circuit and battery.
Edited by Swati Sharma | Saturday March 02, 2019, New Delhi
Six persons were killed and over were 30 injured when a Srinagar-bound bus skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. The incident took place late on Friday night.
Edited by Swati Sharma | Thursday February 28, 2019, New Delhi
As several hotels across Srinagar threw their doorsopen to stranded tourists -- for free --on Wednesday, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah hailed it as a move that shows "why Kashmir is such a hospitable place".
