January 12, 2019 6:20 am
Pointing out that two explosions took place near Roopmati forward post in Pukkharni area, sources said that the first explosion took place at 4.30 pm and another around 6 pm.
October 28, 2018 8:10 pm
The injured were part of a patrol party moving along the LoC when they inadvertently stepped on an old mine, sources said. There are mines in areas along the LoC which were laid even during 1965 war, sources said.
April 04, 2018 5:11 am
As the administration swung into action against Devender Singh Behal and others present in the meeting, the joint action committee (JAC) spearheading the agitation for district status came under pressure and reached for negotiations.
March 25, 2018 6:48 am
In the wake of the agitation, the state government had Friday decided to appoint separate Additional Deputy Commissioners for Nowshera, Sunderbani and Kalakote subdivisions, but this did not satisfy the protesters.
March 24, 2018 10:43 pm
Protests have been going on in the Nowshera town in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district for the last one and a half months demanding that the Nowshera, Kalakote and Sunderbani towns in the border belt be made districts.
March 22, 2018 8:31 pm
'Seventy-two hours means 72 hours and thereafter, you will see our action. We will bring every minister out of their houses and chase them away,' said Chamber president Rakesh Gupta.
March 22, 2018 2:50 am
Identified as Rohit Kohli, a member of the joint action committee, spearheading the 33-day-long agitation in Nowshera, he took everybody by surprise when he suddenly sprinkled kerosene on himself and tried to set himself afire in the afternoon.
March 21, 2018 4:36 am
Agitators say Nowshera deserves to be a district as it was a niabat of Mirpur district (now in Pakistan) in 1934 and had a municipal committee in 1938. After Partition, it was made part of Poonch district and later put under Rajouri district, which became a tehsil in 1958
March 14, 2018 10:37 pm
They will visit Nowshera and Kalakote where people have been agitating for nearly a month seeking district status, besides Sunderbani.
December 27, 2017 10:47 am
The ceasefire violation by Pakistan comes two days after the Indian Army killed three Pakistani soldiers in a cross-LOC strike on Monday evening.





