Fire inside house: Retired DSP, 5 others of family die of asphyxiation in J&K
Six persons of a family, including two children, died of asphyxiation when a fire erupted in a house in Jammu's Kathua early Wednesday, officials said.
Six persons of a family, including two children, died of asphyxiation when a fire erupted in a house in Jammu's Kathua early Wednesday, officials said.
In a significant development, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has accorded approval to a subsidised helicopter service for the people of the border area of Mendhar sector in the Poonch district.
The BSF has foiled a drugs smuggling attempt by recovering a Pakistani drone carrying narcotics in the border sector of Arnia in Jammu.
Three minor children and their 40-year old father died due to suspected food poisoning in a remote village of the Rajouri district of Jammu.
J&K Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, on Thursday, paid a visit to Mubarak Mandi Heritage Complex here for an on-the-spot assessment of the progress made on the works of conservation and protection going on for the last few years.
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah and CPM leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami have also confirmed their participation in the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Senior officials of the Army and Security Impact Analysis (SIA) teams reached the site of the incident on Saturday.
The bombs exploded just at a stone’s throw distance from an army camp in the Narwal Transport area, not very far from Sidhra, where 4 heavily armed Pakistani terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad traveling to Kashmir in a truck were killed in an encounter with security forces.
The bereaved people in Rajouri district of Jammu have demanded a Balakot-like strike against Pakistani terrorists, who took the lives of 6 civilians in two separate incidents of attack on Monday.
These incidents evoked angry protests against the J&K administration and people refused to cremate bodies of the killed and blocked the approach to the village by placing corpses of the six on the road. They were demanding that the Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha should personally visit the village and listen to their woes.
