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Tragedy in Chenani-Nashri Tunnel: Six Injured, 20 Animals Perish in Collision

April 12, 2025 Editor

Nomadic Family Struck by Grief in Tunnel Collision, Livestock Lost Ramban, 11 April 2025: In a tragic incident on Friday, six members of a nomadic family sustained injuries, and 20 livestock, including sheep and goats, lost their lives in a collision inside the Chenani-Nashri Tunnel along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. The accident occurred when a vehicle rammed into a load carrier transporting the family and their animals. The injured individuals, identified as Mohd Ashraf (65), Refa Bibi (50), Saida Bibi (25), Umra Bibi (18), Wajid (27), and another family member,…

Ramban Bus Assault: Construction Employees Targeted by Masked Assailants

January 2, 2025 Editor

Four construction firm employees injured in attack on bus by ‘masked men’ in Ramban Four employees of a construction company sustained minor injuries in an attack on a bus carrying them to a project site in J&Ks Ramban district on Wednesday. The incident led to the detention of eight individuals who are currently being interrogated, according to officials. The bus, which was en route to a tunnelling project site in Marog, was intercepted by masked assailants at Seri in the evening. The attackers boarded the vehicle and began assaulting its…

Nature’s Fury: Ramban Hit by Flash Floods After Cloudburst, One Casualty Reported

September 4, 2024 Editor

A man was washed away in flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in Ramban district on Monday evening, officials said. The incident took place in the Bankoot area of Banihal tehsil, when a cloudburst caused flash floods that washed away a JCB machine along with its operator, they said. Officials said the cloudburst hit the upper reaches of Bankoot village near Banihal, causing flash floods in the Gagarwah and Bankoot rivulets. The flash floods also damaged the under-construction Bankoot-Gujjarnar road and swept away machinery including an L&T machine and a…

Fatal accident in Ramban claims three lives

September 19, 2023 Editor

Three persons died after a tipper lorry (dumper), in which they were travelling, plunged into a deep gorge along a link road in the Tangar area of Ramban late Monday evening. Police said, “The driver of a dumper, enroute Tangar from Sawalakote, lost control over it and the vehicle plunged into a deep gorge near Tanger, resulting in the death of two persons on the spot whereas one person sustained critical injuries.” They said that on getting information about the accident, locals and police rushed to the spot and retrieved…

J&K Tunnel Collapses: One labourer’s body found, 9 remain trapped in caved tunnel in Ramban

May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 Editor

One person has died after an under-construction tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district caved in Thursday night. Nine others are still trapped. The dead man was from West Bengal, deputy commissioner Mussarat Islam said, adding that of those still trapped, four more were from that state. Two of the trapped men are from Nepal, one is from Assam and the other two are locals, Islam said. The cave-in occurred at Khoni Nallah on the Jammu and Srinagar national highway. A part of the tunnel collapsed during an audit, injuring…

Over 50 Rural Local body members quit in district Ramban

October 11, 2021 Editor

Over 50 sarpanches and panches have resigned en masse in two blocks of Ramban district in Jammu and Kashmir over various issues, officials said on Saturday. They have resigned alleging lack of promised empowerment, unnecessary interference, and their side-lining by the administration during the ongoing public outreach program of the Central ministers, officials said. The Peoples Democratic Party took a pot-shot at the BJP government, saying the “cosmetic normalcy and pomp and show being projected (in the Union Territory) stands punctured.” Officials, however, said the district panchayat officer Ashok Singh…

Gujjar killed, another hurt in Army firing in Ramban

August 6, 2018 Editor

A civilian was killed and another injured when the Army allegedly opened fire on them in the wee hours of Sunday in Upper Kohli village of Gool tehsil in Ramban district. The deceased has been identified as Muhammad Rafiq Gujjar (28) and the injured as Shakeel Ahmed (30). Both were residents of the Dalwa area in Gool. The police registered an FIR against the Army in Dharamkund police station under Sections 302 and 307 of the RPC and Sections 7, 27 and 30 of the Arms Act after people of…

Chenani-Nashri tunnel impacts footfall in Patnitop?

June 20, 2017 Editor

The country’s longest surface tunnel — the 9.2-km Chenani-Nashri tunnel — has come as a boon for travellers, but it could have an adverse impact on the tourism sector in Patnitop area in Udhampur district of Jammu region, with Kashmir and Ladakh-bound tourists skipping the popular hill station for a stopover. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the 31-km tunnel on April 2. It has cut short the travel time between Jammu and Srinagar by two hours, bypassing Patnitop, which has some 65 hotels, cottages and guest houses. Where the…

Winter carnival gets underway at Patnitop

January 30, 2017 Editor

Livening up the winters in picturesque Patnitop, three day Winter Carnival got underway Sunday attracting tourists in large number. MLA Chenani Dinanath Bhagat formally inaugurated the programme. CEO Patnitop Development Authority Rakesh Sangral was also present on the occasion. Organised by the Department of Tourism and Patnitop Development Authority, three day carnival includes cultural programmes in which prominent artists from within and outside the state will perform. Various adventure sports specially ice skiing will also be one of the major attractions of the festival.

Residents from Ramban fumes due to power outage

June 10, 2016 Editor

The supply of electricity remained disrupted in several areas of Ramban tehsil since Wednesday night even as the locals accused the Power Development Department of “carelessness”. Power supply was yet to be restored by Thursday late afternoon. Reports said power outage affected Parnote, Seri, Chandroog, Kanga, Halla, Rajgargh, Kumait, Dhanrath, Gandhri and Digdool villages being fed electric supply from receiving station Maitra. PDD officials said disruption of electric supply to some areas occurred due to the faults in HT transmission lines due to wind storm in the area. However, the…