JAMMU: A landslide hit near Dewal Bridge at Samroli village along the Jammu-Srinagar NH in Udhampur district Sunday, disrupting traffic.Officials said, “Debris from the landslide resulted in the blockage of the upper tube (towards Kashmir) of the Jammu-Srinagar NH near Dewal Bridge at Samroli after a massive boulder slide hit the highway.“They said traffic remained…
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) SRINAGAR: Lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha hailed J&K police Sunday for “establishing an era of peace”, the fulsome praise coming hours after opposition BJP accused CM Omar Abdullah of “confronting” cops and “provoking separatism” last week when they tried to stop him from heading to a graveyard of 1931…
JAMMU: J&K Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra and senior functionaries GA Mir, Lal Singh, Raman Bhalla, and Ravinder Sharma were detained Sunday as police blocked the party’s planned “statehood march” in Jammu. They were taken to the police lines and released later.Congress has ramped up its statehood campaign under the banner “Hamari Riyasat Hamara Haq”,…
JAMMU: Jammu & Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch has registered three separate cases against fraudsters, including one already in custody, for allegedly duping several jobseekers of Rs 1.5 crore on the pretext of providing govt jobs, officials said Sunday.Crime Branch (Jammu) SSP Benam Tosh said the FIRs were registered on the basis of separate complaints.He said…
JAMMU: A gunfight broke out Sunday between security forces and terrorists following a cordon-and-search operation launched on specific intelligence in Dachhan area of J&K’s Kishtwar district. At least three terrorists, suspected to be affiliated with Pakistan-backed banned outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, are believed to be trapped.“Security forces came under intense fire during the search, triggering a gunfight,”…
To give a fresh boost to Assam’s dairy sector, the state government on Sunday introduced a new subsidy scheme offering Rs 5 per litre of milk to dairy farmers. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the initiative at a programme in Guwahati, where he also laid the foundation stone for expanding the Panjabari plant of…
NEW DELHI: The Punjab Police has issued a clarification after facing backlash over a controversial post that appeared on its official X handle on Thursday night. The now-deleted post showed an AI-generated graphic image of a light-skinned police officer with the Indian flag over his face pinning down a dark-skinned man marked with a Pakistani…
NEW DELHI: A 43-year-old man from Mumbai has been arrested after his pet pit bull attacked and injured an 11-year-old boy in Mankhurd. According to the FIR filed by the boy’s father, the child was playing inside a stationary auto-rickshaw on Thursday night when Sohail Hasan Khan allegedly set the dog loose on the boy,…
NEW DELHI: Himachal Pradesh BJP president Rajiv Bindal on Sunday accused the Congress-led state government of betraying unemployed youth by introducing a ‘job trainee’ scheme instead of fulfilling its poll promise of providing regular jobs.Addressing a press conference, Bindal cited an old video of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in which she promised to give…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate has dismissed NCP(SP) Rohit Pawar’s claim that he was playing rummy in the assembly, clarifying that it was solitaire, an app he said may have been downloaded by a staffer, and had actually opened YouTube to check on lower house proceedings.“Rohit Pawar has become addicted to playing rummy….