For the first time, biometric registration was also carried out at all centres to prevent impersonation.
According to a data, this year as many as 569 kg of marijuana was seized, five times more than the seizure made during this period last year in Jammu.
Nomadic Gujjars, including men and women along with the livestock, held a sit-in outside the residence of Forest Minister Choudhary Lal Singh in Jammu on Tuesday morning.
An Army vehicle and a private car collided head-on in the Sarwal area here at around 11 pm yesterday, the official said.
A person was killed and three others got injured in a scuffle that broke out between two business partners in Narwal area of Jammu on Tuesday.
Based on a tip off, a police party of a police station at Chenani in Udhampur during checking of vehicles intercepted two trucks, a police officer said, adding that during their search, 33 bovines were found.
A wreath-laying ceremony was organised in martyr memorial at the Border Security Force headquarter in his honour which was attended by top security officials, including Director General of Police (DGP) Jammu and Kashmir S P Vaid and Inspector General BSF Ram Awatar.
The police went to Chandigarh on the basis of an information about the usage of the Facebook account by the boy, he said.
The police party intercepted a car, and during the search 16 kg of poppy was recovered from two people travelling in the vehicle, he said. Rakesh Kumar and Riaz Bhatti were arrested on the spot and vehicle seized, he added.
BJP said the alleged braid-chopping incidents were being treated as an opportunity by the anti-social elements and separatists to spread hatred against state authorities involved in maintaining peace.
"There is no such thing like freedom struggle at all in Kashmir. It is a farce. It is a manufactured freedom struggle."
Two of the accused have been arrested.
Two of the accused have been arrested and a hunt was on to nab the third, he said, adding that a medical examination of the girl has been done but the report was awaited.
An 18-year old youth today suffered a bullet wound at a hamlet along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, the police said.
Deliberating on the importance of juvenile justice system, Ali highlighted various issues that children had to confront on a day-to-day basis and how the turmoil has exasperated the already grim situation regarding better development of children.
A police spokesman said one person was arrested during a raid at village Gurah Jagir in Akhnoor area following recovery of liquor.
"All technical and safety and flood protection issues are being included in the Detailed Project Report (DPR) to ensure that it may not face the fate of many past projects which have been left halfway," Jammu and Kashmir Deputy CM Nirmal Singh said.
Addressing Sangh activists at the culmination of the “path-sanchalan rally’’ organised on Vijaydashmi in Bhaderwah town of the hilly Doda district in Jammu region, RSS prant pracharak Rupesh Kumar called Article 35A unconstitutional.
The minister yesterday took a surprise visit to Urban Health Centres at Gujjar Nagar, Talab Khatikan, Sidhra, Bathindi, Sainik Colony, Shastri Nagar and Talab Tillo, an official spokesman said today.
JKNPPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh accused the Centre and the state government for "failing to fulfil" promises made to the families living in villages surrounding the border.
Police sources said that two BSF personnel were injured in Ramgarh sector. They were deployed at Majra border outpost.
Later, paying floral tribute to another statue of Hari Singh at Bahu Fort at an event organised by the BJP, Singh said that some people were trying to mislead the public by playing politics.
An SSB colleague of the deceased assistant sub-inspector Ram Parveshar Yadav was injured but doctors said he had no bullet wound. The place where the shooting happened near Banihal is along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.
It was cleanliness drive from Siachen Glacier to the plains of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, multiple campaigns were seen across the state organised by the Army and state leaders.
Jammu: Police took the suspect into custody and during preliminary investigation, found that the man was involved in several cases of theft. A case was registered at Nowabad police station in this regard. Police hope to recover more loot from the suspect, the officer said.

