In order to strengthen the security of the area, the CRPF is also planning to provide weapons training to Village Defence Committee (VDC) guards in the Union Territory, government officials said on Monday.
Noon Chai, a kind of tea, is popular in the Kashmir Valley, Chenab and the upper reaches of the Pir Panjal region, and is readily available in shops there, but is rarely consumed in the winter capital of Jammu.
Jammu and Kashmir Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo on Monday chaired a meeting to discuss the permission and availability of petroleum-derived spray oils in the Union Territory.
Considering recent incidents of targeted killings in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is planning to provide weapon training to Village Defence Committee (VDC) guards in the Union Territory, government officials said on Monday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a crucial meeting with top leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party at his residence in the national capital at 9 pm today, sources said.
Days after Congress Party wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah complaining of 'security breaches' in the Delhi leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Monday, said that they are in the process to take stock of the incident.
A two-day workshop on Geographical Indications was also organized in Jammu with the aim of sensitizing all stakeholders on Geographical Indications, identifying potential products, and developing future strategies for empowering rural communities.
The Indian Army thwarted an infiltration bid in the Balakot sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on the night of January 7, eliminating two terrorists in the operation, officials said on Sunday.
The Indian Army's Chinar Corps conducted emergency evacuations of three ailing villagers from Jammu and Kashmir's remote Sumwali village in Boniyar Tehsil and took them to a primary health care centre in Boniyar. The three indisposed persons were an aged woman, a child and an elderly man.
One more civilian succumbed to his injuries taking the number of killed to seven in the firing that took place in the Dhangri area of Rajouri district, officials said on Sunday.
Two terrorists have been neutralised so far following the killings of six civilians in the terror attack of January 1 this year, the White Knight Corps official said on Saturday.