JAMMU: Strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was restored for traffic on Monday, after remaining closed for a day.

JAMMU: Fatalities are feared after a cab dropped into a gorge overnight on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district, officials said.

SRINAGAR: Strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, after 12 hours, opened for traffic on Friday.

SRINAGAR: The strategic Srinagar-Jammu national highway was closed for traffic on Thursday due to landslides at different places in the Ramban district.

SRINAGAR: One-way traffic was restored on Tuesday on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway after it remained closed for two days.

SRINAGAR: Traffic on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was allowed one-way on Saturday due to bad road condition and narrowing of the highway at a number of places due to landslide debris, an official said.

SRINAGAR: After remaining closed for two days, the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway was restored for one-way traffic on Monday.

SRINAGAR: Multiple landslides triggered by incessant rains blocked the strategic Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Saturday.

JAMMU: One person posing as an officer at the J&K Raj Bhawan was arrested on Tuesday by police in Jammu city.

SRINAGAR: Traffic authorities on Tuesday allowed one-way traffic on Srinagar-Jammu national highway because of the road condition and inclement weather.

SRINAGAR: Strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway has been open for two-way traffic on Saturday as plying time was fixed by the authorities.

SRINAGAR: Traffic was restored on the strategic Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Friday although the movement was slow due to single lane traffic.

SRINAGAR: The strategic Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday due to landslides and officials said the same would be opened soon to clear stranded traffic.

JAMMU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Tuesday to begin his daylong visit to J&K. He launched multiple development projects worth over Rs 32,000 crore and also distributed appointment letters to 1,748 youths.

SRINAGAR: Rain/snow occurred in J&K during the last 24 hours as landslides blocked the Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi will visit Jammu on February 20 to inaugurate, dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of development projects worth over Rs 30,500 crore.

SRINAGAR: Incessant rainfall triggered landslide in the Banihal area of Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Monday after which the road was closed for traffic.

SRINAGAR: The Meteorological(MeT) department has forecast cloudy weather with rain at scattered places in the Kashmir valley and clear weather in Jammu division during the next 24 hours.

SRINAGAR: At 35 degrees Celsius, Jammu city recorded the season's highest temperature, a Met Department official said on Thursday.

SRINAGAR: The Jammu Srinagar National Highway has been closed for vehicular traffic due to shooting stones at Panthyal, officials said on Saturday.

SRINAGAR: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway has been closed for vehicular traffic due to landslides and shooting stones triggered by rains at multiple places and snow accumulated around the NAVYUG tunnel, officials said on Saturday.

SRINAGAR: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will remain closed on Thursday due to a huge landslide at Cafeteria Morh, continuous shooting stones at many places between Ramban and Banihal and snow accumulation between NAVYUG Tunnel and Qazigund, officials said on Wednesday.

JAMMU: The city of temples will soon have Integrated Command and Control Centre, Intelligent Traffic Management System and web GIS based e-bill pay for Civic Services under Jammu Smart City Project.

JAMMU: A woman was allegedly raped in Jammu and Kashmir's Jammu city by a 32-year-old man from Chhattisgarh early this week.

JAMMU: Three Pakistani smugglers have been neutralised on the International Border (IB) in the Samba sector of Jammu and 36 packets of narcotics were recovered from them, BSF said on Sunday.

JAMMU: Three Pakistani smugglers have been neutralised on the International Border (IB) in the Samba sector of Jammu and 36 packets of narcotics were recovered from them, BSF said on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Amid intelligence inputs that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is not leaving any stone unturned to send terrorists into the Kashmir Valley and poll-bound Punjab, the Border Security Force on Thursday said that it has already escalated the patrolling on the stretch of Line of Control it is deployed on and and ready to meet any misadventure from across it.

JAMMU: Ahead of the Republic Day, the BSF troops deployed along the International Border (IB) in Jammu are on high alert to deal with nefarious attempts of anti-national elements (ANEs) from across the border.

 CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh Press Club condemned the Jammu & Kashmir administration move to de-register the Kashmir Press Club and subsequently sealing of the premises of the club. Earlier, in an unfortunate incident, the administration with the help of the security forces, forcefully took over the control of the Kashmir Press Club from the legally elected management. The incident took place on the next day, when the election to form the club’s new executive body was announced.

SRINAGAR: Minimum temperature throughout Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh remained notches below the freezing point on Thursday as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast rise in day temperatures and further drop in night temperatures in the two UTs.

NEW DELHI:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday said it has arrested an Assistant Garrison Engineer and a Junior Engineer working in the office of Garrison Engineer, MES, Satwari, Jammu (J&K), for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000.

JAMMU: One person was killed and 20 others were injured in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Tuesday.Police sources said a bus, carrying tourists from Uttar Pradesh, turned turtle inside the Banihal-Qazigund tunnel today afternoon.

KOVILPATTI (TN): Hockey Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi Hockey, Hockey Jharkhand and Hockey Bihar earned crucial wins, while Manipur Hockey drew against Le Puducherry Hockey.in the 11th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship here today.

JAMMU:One person was killed and 7 others were injured in a road accident on Tuesday on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.Police said two vehicles collided with each other inside the Nashri Tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway.

NEW DELHI:After enrolling Devender Singh Rana and Surjit Singh Salathia in the party, the BJP is now planning to convince all the top leadership of National Conference (NC) in Jammu region to switch sides.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Shri Banwarilal Purohit expressed profound grief and offered his deepest condolences of the families of five army soldiers including a JCO who lost their precious lives in an encounter with the terrorists at Poonch  in Jammu and  Kashmir. Three of the Martyred soldiers hailed from the State of Punjab.

JAMMU:  Jammu Divisional Commissioner, Dr Raghav Langer, has taken serious note of several fake accounts on social media sites on his name, an official statement said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI:  Delhi Police will take the suspects in the murder case of former J&K legislative council member Trilochan Singh Wazir to Jammu and Punjab to unearth the whole conspiracy behind the crime.

JAMMU:Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that he is a Kashmiri Pandit and feels at home whenever he visits Jammu and Kashmir.Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Jammu. He visited the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Reasi district on Wednesday.

JAMMU:  One person was killed and two others injured on Tuesday when two trucks collided with each other and rolled down into a gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.

SRINAGAR: BSF troops fired and repulsed a flying object along the International Border in the Arnia sector of Jammu, officials said on Monday.Today morning at about 0530 hrs, a blinking red and yellow light in the sky observed by our forward troops in Arnia sector near to the IB," BSF said.

JAMMU:One person was killed and 12 others were injured on Monday in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district.

NEW DELHI: Budget airline Go First, formerly known as GoAir, has operated the first ever night flight from Jammu to Delhi.
Accordingly, the flight 'G8 196' - took off at 8.00 p.m. on Friday and was operated on Airbus A320neo.

JAMMU:In a historic move Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday inaugurated the night flight operations at the Jammu Airport

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir police said on Friday that the threads used in the drone shot in Akhnoor area by the security forces earlier in the day were the same as those of the one used for dropping payloads at Air Force Station (AFS) Jammu.

JAMMU: Another drone was spotted in the area of Air Force Station in Jammu city which was jammed and destroyed by using anti-drone technology by the Air Force.

JAMMU: Another drone was spotted in the area of Air Force Station in Jammu city which was jammed and destroyed by using anti-drone technology by the Air Force.

JAMMU: Four persons were killed and another four injured on Wednesday in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in J&K's Ramban district.

AMRITSAR: The issue of conversion and marriage of two Sikh girls from Kashmir has been largely resolved through the efforts of Sikh leaders. Manmeet Kaur, an 18-year-old Sikh girl from Srinagar, was handed over to her family by the court following the persistent efforts of the Sikh community and thoughtful Sikh leaders. With Sukhbir Singh, it was done at Rainawari Gurdwara Sahib as per complete gurmaryada.

NEW DELHI:The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has handed over the Jammu Air Force station attack case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), officials said on Tuesday.

JAMMU:Two low intensity explosions took place early Sunday morning in the technical area of Jammu Air Force Station. Security agencies suspect that drones were used to drop bombs at the Air Force station, however, there was no confirmation from the Indian Air Force so far.

NEW DELHI: Pakistani media is behind-the-curve, unable to grasp the real meaning of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's deft move to announce his intent to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir—a major strategic move after August 5, 2019, when J&K was turned into a Union Territory.

JAMMU: Senior separatist leader and chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat group, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai passed away on Wednesday in a government hospital in J&K's Jammu city.

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday said that it has filed a charge sheet against seven narco-smugglers associated with the banned terror outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) in connection with its probe into the Jammu narco-terrorism case.

JAMMU: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will remain closed for vehicular traffic on Wednesday in view of the inclement weather forecast by the Met department, said the traffic police.

JAMMU: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will remain closed for the vehicular traffic on Wednesday in view of inclement weather and landslides triggered by incessant rains, the traffic police said.

SRINAGAR: Landslides triggered by incessant rain blocked the Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Tuesday as the meteorological department forecast more rain and snow during the next 24 hours.

JAMMU: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will remain closed on Friday for vehicular traffic due to slated maintenance, officials said.

NEW DELHI: A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking immediate release of detained Rohingya refugees in Jammu and also a direction to the Centre to expeditiously grant refugee identification cards through the FRRO for Rohingyas in the informal camps.

JAMMU: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for traffic on Wednesday due to a landslide that blocked the road near Banihal, officials said.An official said the highway was blocked by the landslide during the night.

JAMMU: Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended on Saturday after heavy rains triggered landslides along the Ramban-Ramsoo stretch, officials said.

JAMMU: A soldier was killed in a firing accident in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in Jammu district.

NEW DELHI:The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested two more accused in the Red Fort violence case from Jammu.

SRINAGAR: A major tragedy was averted on Monday when the security forces detected an improvised explosive device (IED) near the railway crossing in the Nowgam area of Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.

NEW DELHI: Envoys of at least 24 countries are visiting Jammu & Kashmir on Wednesday to assess the security situation and developments since the nullification of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. This is the third such visit in one and a half years.

SRINAGAR :Morning fog in Jammu and a thin cloud cover over the Kashmir Valley on Saturday affected life in the union territory as the weather office forecast better weather in the coming days.

JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist from the Samba district of Jammu involved in the killing of three Bharatiya Janata Party workers and one policeman in Kashmir last year, officials said on Saturday.

SRINAGAR: After opening for a few hours on Saturday, the Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been closed again due to heavy snowfall, officials said.
The highway which was opened for one-way traffic from Jammu to Srinagar on Saturday has been closed due to snowfall near Jawahar Tunnel.

SRINAGAR: Mimimum temperatures improved across Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Saturday as snow occurred in the valley and rain lashed the plains of Jammu division. Most people in the valley preferred to remain indoors in the morning due to the snow and slippery road conditions.

JAMMU: The Jammu-Srinagar Highway will remain closed on Friday for maintenance operations, an official statement said.

JAMMU: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will remain closed on Monday due to a sudden damage of a bridge on the road, officials said on Sunday.

JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested one person linked to the proscribed terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), who had been tasked by the handlers from across the border to carry out grenade blasts on the National Highway (NHW) bypass road, police said on Monday.

SRINAGAR: Cold wave continued to sweep J&K and Ladakh on Friday with Jammu recording season's coldest night at 2.8 degrees Celsius and the Drass town remaining frozen at minus 28.5.

JAMMU: Timely rescue operation by the army saved the lives of five civilians after an overnight road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI:Pakistan is exploiting the International Border (IB) in Punjab and Jammu area to push in maximum number of terrorists before the onset of winters, intelligence agency official said on Thursday.

JAMMU:Four terrorists travelling in a truck were killed on Thursday morning during an ongoing encounter near Nagrota in J&K' Jammu district, top police officials said.
Four terrorists have been neutralised and one police constable injured in an encounter at Ban Toll Plaza Jammu with Police, CRPF and Army. Area is being sanitized," police said.

SRINAGAR: As part of bi-annual Darbar Move, the Civil Secretariat, seat of Jammu and Kashmir government, along with other offices will close in Srinagar on October 30 and reopen in the winter capital Jammu on November 9.

CHANDIGARH:The president of Punjab Youth Congress, Brinder Singh Dhillon on Wednesday questioned the Centre’s approval to a bill that seeks to make Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi the official languages in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In a press statement, Dhillon opposed the centre’s move to abolish Punjabi from the list of official languages and demanded from the centre govt to include the Punjabi language in the list.

SRINAGAR: A large quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered after security forces arrested two suspected terrorists near the Jawahar tunnel in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.

JAMMU:Two people have been arrested in Jammu city in connection with uploading a video likely to incite communal sentiments, police said on Sunday.

CHANDIGARH: To enable the workmen in working in Shops and Commercial Establishments situated in the adjoining area with the State of Jammu and Kashmir, the voters of Jammu and Kashmir working in the State of Punjab may be allowed paid holiday

With both the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) choosing to stay away from the contest in the Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats, the balance appears to swing in favour of the Congress party in these constituencies.

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JAMMU : Rahul Jarngal, an engineer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, has scaled the Mount Everest.