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Heritage Festival organised at Ramnagar Fort to promote tourism

May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Editor

Continuing the Celebration of ‘Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav’ Directorate of Tourism, Jammu was organized Jammu Heritage Festival at Ramnagar Fort on May 5, 2022 in collaboration with District Administration, Udhampur and Archaeological Survey of India. This was the second program in the series of Heritage Festival as the first was conducted at Bhimgarh Fort, Reasi. While addressing the media Vivekanand Rai, Director of Tourism, Jammu explained that the sole purpose of organizing these events is to promote Heritage Tourism in Jammu. Ramnagar is not only popular for Ramangar Fort but…

Reclaim Pak-occupied region: PoJK Refugees

May 9, 2022 Editor

Refugees from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) today participated in a rally in Jammu, organised by the J&K People’s Forum, to paid homage to those who were killed in the occupied region during raids of Pakistan’s tribals in 1947. Different social and religious organisations of the community took part in the rally in which they vowed to get back the PoJK from Pakistan. Bollywood actor Mukesh Rishi also addressed the gathering. Members of the community recalled the sacrifices of PoJK refugees who had to come to Jammu and other areas.…

ASI killed, 4 Security personnel wounded in Sunjwan encounter: Police

April 22, 2022 Editor

An assistant sub-inspector of CISF was killed and five other security personnel wounded in an ongoing gunfight with the militants in the Sunjwan area of Jammu district on Friday. “During the night, we had laid a cordon in the area (Sunjwan) following inputs about the presence of terrorists who were planning to do something,” ADGP Jammu Mukesh Singh told journalists. He said that during early morning hours, the security personnel was fired upon by the militants in which one security man was killed and three to four others wounded. “Encounter…

Govt to lift AFSPA from Jammu?

April 6, 2022 Editor

Speculation is rife over the possibility of lifting AFSPA from some parts of Jammu and Kashmir after the controversial law was partially removed from Nagaland, Assam, and Arunachal. Under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA), a geographical location is declared as a disturbed area to facilitate operations of the armed forces. “A highly sensitive decision like AFSPA withdrawal from some parts of J&K can be taken only at the highest political level,” a senior government official said when asked about the matter. There has been speculation that to…

Arms Licence Row: 16 Properties of bureaucrats attached in J&K

April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 Editor

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 16 properties of IAS and JKAS officers allegedly involved in the infamous arms license case. The attached properties are worth Rs 4.69 crore. The case is being investigated under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, registered in 2020 against several serving as well as retired bureaucrats, officials, several arms dealers, and brokers of J&K. On March 24, the ED had searched 11 premises, including those of IAS officer Rajeev Ranjan, JKAS officers Itrat Hussain Rafiqui and Ravinder Kumar Bhatt among other officials…

25 Rohingyas belonging to Tablighi Jamaat detained in Ramban

April 2, 2022 Editor

At least 25 Rohingya men, owing allegiance to Tablighi Jamaat, were detained in Ramban district and sent to Hiranagar holding center on Friday, said officials At least 25 Rohingya men, owing allegiance to Tablighi Jamaat, were detained in the Ramban district and sent to Hiranagar holding centre on Friday, said officials. “They were part of Tablighi Jamaat and had come for religious preaching. They were staying at mosques in Ramban,” said a senior police officer. On March 6 last year, 169 illegal immigrant Rohingyas were sent to the holding centre,…

BJP dividing country on religious lines; Cong kept it safe: Mehbooba Mufti

March 23, 2022 Editor

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday alleged that BJP was devoid of any development agenda hence it was fanning communal passion to divide the people and the country on religious lines while Congress kept it safe all these years. She was addressing a workers’ convention in Vijaypur in the Samba district. PDP president alleged that the ruling dispensation led by BJP had failed to provide better road infrastructure, regular water and power supply besides addressing basic issues of people hence it was trying to distract them (people)…

Vikramaditya Singh quits Congress, offers his SWOT analysis

March 23, 2022 Editor

Vikramaditya Singh, 57, is the son of veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, and grandson of former Jammu & Kashmir ruler Maharaja Hari Singh. He joined Congress from the PDP in 2018. Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh on Tuesday resigned from the party “with immediate effect”, saying the Congress was unable to reflect the sentiments and aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Singh, who is the son of veteran Congress leader, Dr. Karan Singh, and grandson of former Jammu & Kashmir ruler Maharaja Hari Singh, has not spelt out his…

Minor child among 4 killed, 15 hurt in Jammu scrap shop blaze

March 15, 2022 Editor

At least 4 people, including a woman and a child, were killed and 13 others wounded in a major blaze that broke out in a scrap shop near Dak Bungalow at Residency Road in Jammu on Monday evening. Officials in Government Medical College ( GMC) Jammu said that they received four bodies, including that of a woman and a minor child from the incident of the fire. The officials in Fire and Emergency Services said that five fire tenders and several ambulances were rushed to the spot to start rescue…

BJP will repeat UP-like victory in J&K: Ravinder Raina

March 11, 2022 Editor

Leaders led by party’s J&K president Ravinder Raina, former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta and others celebrated the BJP’s victory in assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Jammu and Kashmir unit on Thursday celebrated the party’s victory in assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur, at the party headquarters here. Leaders led by party’s J&K president Ravinder Raina, former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta and others celebrated the BJP’s victory. Raina said that people have chosen the public-centric policies of the…