Just last week, Chand had come to Jammu to drop his wife and daughter home before returning to work in the Valley.
Earlier on Saturday night, the Jammu and Kashmir Police had seized a packet containing an AK and a night vision device from Mandal phallian area on the outskirts of Jammu city.
Fifteen of them have already retired from service. The induction of state services officers into the IPS, an annual exercise across the country, had not been carried out in Jammu and Kashmir since 2008. This had led to several senior officers not getting promoted to the DIG rank.
Drone sightings along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir have increased following the attack on the Air Force Station in Jammu in June this year.
As the test reports came in Thursday, the Union Territory Administration suspended Dr Shabab Ahmed, a dental surgeon who had been made the nodal officer for Covid-19 in Thanamandi area.
The Special Operations Group had set up nakas across Jammu on the basis of inputs regarding the movement of a Kashmir-based terrorist for a specific task.
Two cases of illegal constructions reported, including that of Nirmal Singh's bungalow, says UT official in RTI reply.
The chopper, according to Army PRO Lt Colonel Devender Anand, was on a training sortie over the area.
Talking to the media after a visit to Rajouri and Poonch districts, former CM Mehbooba Mufti said Jammu’s economy is being choked from all sides.
The NIA is trying to find a link between a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba plot to plant an IED in Jammu and the drone attack on the IAF station in the city a few hours later, on June 27.
The deceased officers have been identified as Major Rohit Kumar and Major Anuj Rajput.
Due to the pandemic, the ceremony was conducted without the parents of the recruits following all the norms.
It raised a range of issues, including closure of wine shops, restrictions on banquet halls, opening of Reliance stores and the ending of the annual darbar move, among others.
The protesters came out from the Jagti migrant camp on the outskirts of the city and started marching towards the nearby highway, raising slogans in support of their demand for immediate release of relief payment for August, the officials said.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau has also brought into the notice of the government that the present mechanism for issuance of passport to government employees results in the issuance of passport to those employees against whom vigilance cases are pending
The BJP hit back at Gandhi for accusing it and the RSS of "trying to break the composite culture of Jammu and Kashmir", alleging all the vexing issues of the region is the "legacy of the Gandhi family".
The 17-year-old was in India as an attendant to his brother, an Afghan Army soldier, who was undergoing treatment for a bullet injury in Delhi.
While Mir said he was stopped at a potato farm near Sinthon Top, Wani was detained at Thathri. Later, they were made to return to their respective native places
The LG also laid the e-foundation of Water Sports Centre at Ranjit Sagar Dam, to be completed at a cost of Rs 3 crore by March, 2022 and launched 'Divyang Sahayak' - an initiative to provide prosthetic aid to the needy.
This is the second militant attack on BJP activists in south Kashmir in just over a week. On August 9, BJP sarpanch Ghulam Rasool Dar and his wife Jawahira Begum, who was a BJP panch, were killed in Anantnag.
Members of the Jaish-e-Mohammad module were planning to plant a vehicle-based IED in Jammu, police said.
Speaking to reporters in Rajouri, Singh said a number of youth from J&K had gone to Pakistan in 2017 and 2018 on valid documents. “Fifty-seven cases have come to our notice that those who went across [the border] for studies or as tourists joined one or the other terror activity,” he said.
The Army statement came after the younger brother of one of the missing pilots expressed anguish at the search and rescue operations progressing at a 'snail's pace'.
The police said the blast took place under mysterious circumstances and an investigation is on to ascertain its cause.
Batting strongly for holding Assembly elections, he said for the past four years, there is “no representative” in J&K, which is the biggest cause of under development in the union territory.




