Cop calls for offensive operations to minimise militant threats

Cop calls for offensive operations to minimise militant threats

Jammu: A senior police officer on Wednesday called for offensive operations to scuttle any possible militant attacks ahead of Independence Day. Additional Director General of Police (Jammu Zone) Mukesh Singh called for high-level alertness, strengthening of the border security grid and intensified checking, especially around the venue of the Independence Day function on August 15, […]

BSF chief visits border outposts in Akhnoor sector

BSF chief visits border outposts in Akhnoor sector

Jammu: BSF Director-General Nitin Agrawal on Wednesday visited various border outposts in Jammu’s Akhnoor sector and exhorted the troops to maintain effective domination to successfully meet the challenges from across the frontier. Agrawal was accompanied by the Border Security Force’s (BSF) Special Director General (Western Command) PV Rama Sastry and Inspector General (Jammu Frontier) DK […]

Landslide blocks highway

Landslide blocks highway

Banihal/Jammu: A massive landslide blocked the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district early Wednesday following which no fresh batch of Amarnath pilgrims was allowed to leave from Jammu, officials said. According to the traffic control room, the landslide hit the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, near […]

Soldier drowns while taking bath

Soldier drowns while taking bath

Jammu: An Army personnel drowned in a canal while taking a bath in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. Kalki Sharma (24), a resident of Barwal village, was on leave, they said, adding he was posted in Srinagar. Sharma went for a bath in the canal at nearby Magar Khand but […]

2 JeM Associates Arrested In Srinagar: Police

2 JeM Associates Arrested In Srinagar: Police

Srinagar: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested two militant associates of JeM outfit in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district. “Two(2) militant associates of JeM namely Arshad Mushtaq son of Mushtaq Mangroo of Badibagh Pulwama and Suhail Majeed Mir son of Abdul Majeed Mir of Machpuna Pulwama arrested by Srinagar Police,” police said in a tweet, […]

Dynasty politics, corruption, appeasement must quit India: BJP

New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday commemorated the launch of the Quit India Movement by Mahatma Gandhi on this day in 1942 and called for riddance of dynasticism, corruption, and appeasement politics in an attack against the Congress and INDIA allies. Addressing a press conference at party headquarters here, BJP leader and former Union minister […]

The idea of India should not die: Mamata

Kolkata: Paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi on the anniversary of the Quit India movement launched by him, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the ideas of harmony and humanity must be upheld for a strong India. The TMC supremo said the idea of India should not die. “Today, on the anniversary of […]

India is varied, has multiple cultures like a rainbow: A R Rahman

Chennai: Like there are multiple colours in a rainbow, India has different cultures, languages and film industries and it’s time for the world to acknowledge it, says A R Rahman, the artiste whose music covers genres and geographies. Rahman, who has worked in the south, in the Hindi film industry as well as Hollywood, Broadway […]