Omar leads ministers, officials to border Poonch district
This was the first outreach of Omar after becoming CM of Jammu and Kashmir.
This was the first outreach of Omar after becoming CM of Jammu and Kashmir.
The project, funded by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways at a cost of Rs 62.5 crore, was carried out under the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) mode.
He was peaking at the inauguration of the four-day National Agriculture Summit & Farmers’ Fair-2024 at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Jammu.
The L-G was chairing a high-level meeting of senior civil, police officials and DCs, SSPs of Jammu Division to review the progress of development projects and security situation in the region.
A junior commissioned officer of the army’s elite special forces lost his life and three soldiers were injured during a terror attack in Kishtwar recently.
Training in weapon handling, firing and weapon maintenance is being imparted to VDC members in the Poonch, Rajouri and Reasi districts of Jammu that are the traditional infiltration route of terrorists.
Rahul, who was on two days visit to Kashmir, was addressing a rally of Congress activists while inaugurating the new office building of the party in Srinagar.
Sources said that the NIA teams led by a DIG early in the morning searched houses of Jamaat leaders in fourteen districts of the union territory (UT).
NIA sources said 40 locations of prominent Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) members and offices of the organisation were simultaneously raided.
Earlier, the firefight between terrorists and security forces took place after a joint team of the police and the army cordoned off the area and launched a search operation.
