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.
Troops of the Army, CRPF and J&K police eliminated the five terrorists (3 in Reban Bandpawa area of Shopian and 2 in Semthan village of Bijbehara in Anantnag district) in the two encounters.
India has reported 1,52,879 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike in new coronavirus cases, taking the country’s tally to over 1.33 crore, according to data from the Union Health Ministry.
"The slain militants belonged to Al-Badr, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Ansar Ghazwatul Hind (AGUH) outfits. Seven of them belonged to AGUH including the group's chief, 3 to Al-Badr and 2 to LeT", Dilbagh Singh told reporters.
“We are convinced that durable peace in South Asia is contingent upon resolving all issues between India and Pakistan, particularly the Jammu and Kashmir dispute,” he said in the letter sent in response to the message received by him from Modi last week on the occasion of ‘Pakistan Day’.
Residents of the areas along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir have been the real victims of the bitter relations as many among them lost their lives or were seriously wounded due to frequent shelling and exchange of fire between troops of the two countries.
