An earthquake of magnitude 3.0 struck 90 km east of Katra, Jammu and Kashmir at 8:35 pm today, as per initial data: National Center for Seismology (NCS). More to follow.
Nearly 350 stranded people from Jammu Airport send back to Odisha in three special flights on June 06.
Domestic flight operations resumed across the country from today (May 25) except in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal after two months of suspension due to coronavirus-induced lockdown.
All passengers coming to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by train or airlines will be kept in institutional quarantine for 14 days and will be tested for coronavirus using RTPCR test. If tested negative they will be sent home otherwise to a hospital. This is the UT protocol under the Disaster Management Act, the J&K government informed.
As more relaxations have been given in lockdown 4.0, people in Jammu were seen standing long queue outside a liquor shop on May 21.
Universities, colleges and professional courses' institutes in Jammu and Kashmir reopened for administrative works with 30 percent staff, a day after the Higher Education Department allowed them to reopen, but not run any classes till May 30.
A special train carrying 950 army personnel left from Bengaluru today amid a nationwide lockdown which has been enforced due to the coronavirus crisis. The train is carrying the army personnel who have complete professional courses at Army training establishments at Bengaluru, Belgaum and Secunderabad and due to rejoin units deployed in operational areas in North India. The train is scheduled to reach Jammu on April 20.
The Jammu district administration on Monday launched e-pass service for people in the coronavirus ‘red zone’ to obtain online permission for emergency movement during the lockdown period. Jammu Deputy Commissioner Sushma Chauhan said the service will facilitate the emergency movement of public from the ‘red zone areas’ who are otherwise not allowed to move out of the restricted area.
Few devotees were seen offering prayers at Digiana Gurudwara in Jammu on the occasion of Baisakhi amid COVID-19 lockdown.
Seven more COVID-19 positive cases have been reported from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Out of the 7 new cases, 4 have a history of contact with already positive cases of the religious congregation while three others have travel history outside J&K.
First COVID-19 death has been reported in Kashmir after a 65-year-old man, who was part of Tabligi Jamaat, died on March 23 died in a hospital. Four of his contacts have also tested positive on Wednesday, informed Jammu and Kashmir Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal.
The public transport got affected in Jammu amid coronavirus outbreak. It came after Jammu and Kashmir government suspended public transport movement to combat from the virus.
A private higher secondary school in Samba district was sealed on Monday for allegedly flouting the government's order of closure of all educational institutions in Jammu and Kashmir over the novel coronavirus pandemic, an official said.
Coronavirus: Two passengers with travel history to Italy and South Korea who were quarantined and kept at GMC Jammu have been tested positive for Coronavirus. Their treatment underway. With two more cases in India, the total number of COVID-19 positives have surged to 33.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for vehicular traffic due to landslides in Ramban district on Tuesday, officials said. Traffic on the highway has been suspended after the landslide hit the road near Peera on the highway.
The process of induction of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at the hyper sensitive and strategically important Srinagar and Jammu airports has been completed.
A senior, city-based lawyer was found murdered inside his house here on Monday, police said, suspecting the involvement of his domestic help, who is missing.
Former civil servant and chief of Jammu & Kashmir People's Movement (JKPM), Shah Faesal, has been booked under Public Safety Act which means that he can be detained without a trial.
A building in Jammu collapsed after fire broke out there around 3 am on February 12.
A fire department official said they rushed firefighters after receiving a distress call at 4.48 am and were making efforts to put out the blaze when suddenly the building collapsed at 5.30 am.
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