At least six people including two children were killed and four others were injured after a fire broke out in a house in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district late Tuesday night.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sukhbir Singh (Operations), who was injured in a recent encounter with the terrorists at Billawar in Kathua district, today cast his vote during the third and final phase of assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir
Following the encounter with terrorists in village Kog (Mandli), in the Kathua district on Saturday, the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) of Jammu Anand Jain said that they have made all the required arrangements for the third phase of the assembly polls in the Union Territory.
The District Development Council (DDC) Chairman Mahan Singh hoisted the national flag at the Kathua district headquarters on the 78th Independence Day in Kathua on Thursday.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrived at the incident site where an Army convoy was ambushed in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in which five Army personnel, including a junior commissioned officer, tragically lost their lives on July 8.
Meanwhile, security has been tightened along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway after five army soldiers were killed in an ambush by terrorists in Kathua district on June 8.