Srinagar: An infiltration attempt was foiled in the Samba area around Jammu border on Tuesday morning.
Gunfire was reportedly exchanged between infiltrators and security personnel for 30 minutes.
A string of clashes along the 742-km LoC last month marked the worst violations of ceasefire that was put in place by India and Pakistan in late 2003.
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08:44 AM, May 07, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A teacher was arrested on Tuesday in Odisha's Sambalpur district for molesting an eight-year-old-girl in the school classroom, police said. The 28-year-old offender, an art and crafts teacher in a private school at the district headquarters town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly gave the students some drawing assignments and started watching an obscene video on his laptop. After finishing her drawing, the girl went...
04:40 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Jammu: An Army jawan allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday. The body of Naik Bhagwan Singh, a jawan of 23 Grenadiers, was found hanging from a tree near his official quarters at Bari Brahmana area of the district last evening, SHO Bari Brahmana, Arun Jamwal said. A case has been registered in this regard while...
06:21 PM, Apr 15, 2013
An Army Court of Inquiry into the clash between officer and soldiers of an armoured unit in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the termination of services of five jawans. The inquiry also called for administrative action against four officers, five JCOs and disciplinary action against three JCOs. ...
08:23 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The movie will be shot in places such as Thirunelveli, Mumbai and Hong Kong. ...
06:14 PM, Feb 20, 2013
US actress Megan Fox and her husband Brian Austin Green attend the carnival parades. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 11, 2013
QPR, who play Norwich City on Saturday, are bottom of the Premier League with 16 points from 24 games. ...
10:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
A court in Cuttack district on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl, while another court in Sambalpur district convicted a separate person on charge of rape and murder of a three-year-old girl. The additional district judge (Fast Track) Sushil Kumar Ray sentenced Minja Naik of Tigiria area to life imprisonment and penalty of Rs 2,000 for raping a minor girl. He was convicted under...
10:29 PM, Jan 11, 2013
A police constable on Thursday allegedly molested a college girl inside a moving bus in Samba district, triggering protests by locals who also blocked a highway demanding action against him. The district police acted swiftly and arrested constable Rajinder Singh, who is posted in Kot Bhalwal central jail, a police officer said. ...
11:16 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Jammu: In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops on Monday fired on Indian posts and a forward village along the International Border (IB) in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir, leaving a couple injured. "There was firing from across the border on Indian forward locations in Chachwal border belt in Samba sector at around 1715 hours today", a senior BSF officer told PTI. BSF troops, guarding the border, fired back...
09:58 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday said suicide by a jawan had led to "unrest" among troops of an Army unit deployed in Samba sector in Jammu and Kashmir. However, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh had claimed that the two incidents were "not connected". Officers and jawans of the 16the Cavalry regiment were engaged in stand-off on August 8 in Samba sector soon after the jawan committed suicide....
06:21 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Sambalpur (Odisha): A 7-year-old girl was raped and murdered after being taken on a bicyle ride by a 30-year-old man known to her family here, police sources said on Tuesday. The body the girl, a student of Class II and a resident of Tanlapara was recovered from a park in Kejelpara area on Monday, the sources said. The man, Pradeep Dalai, took the girl for a bicyle ride on Sunday...
02:38 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Many areas in Samba, Jammu, were waterlogged on Thursday due to the flash floods. ...
09:23 AM, Aug 23, 2012
The Samba incident involving the suicide of a jawan in one of the Army's oldest cavalry regiments has underscored an old problem: the acute shortage ...
01:04 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Srinagar: The distraught parents of the Army jawan who committed suicide in Samba on Thursday now suspect foul play. They have alleged that their son was too strong to give up and kill himself. "He called up two days back and said he was not treated well and that there is a life threatening situation," said the jawan's father, Vishwa Mohan Pillai. His wife Aarti Kumari too said her son...
11:23 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Kashmir: There has been another face off between army officers and jawans, this time in Samba in Jammu and Kashmir. The trouble began after a soldier committed suicide over being denied leave. Army sources have blamed the incident on shortage of officers. While 20 officers are needed per unit, only nine are available as of now. The incident even forced a comment from no less than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
09:55 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: In yet another instance of friction in an Army unit, jawans and officers of an armoured unit were allegedly involved in a face-off after a soldier committed suicide on Wednesday in Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir. This is the second such incident in the last four months when officers and jawans have locked horns. In Nyoma in Ladakh, a commanding officer, two majors and two jawans were...
03:15 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Jammu: The operation to dug open the 400-meter long tunnel, which was discovered on Saturday along the Indo-Pak Border in Samba district is in full swing. A team of senior officials from New Delhi will be visiting the spot on Sunday to have a look at the cross-border tunnel. BSF troops are using more dozers and men to find out origin of the tunnel towards the Indo-Pak border. "The operation...
05:57 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Jammu: Authorities on Saturday discovered a 400-metre long tunnel, running between India and Pakistan, along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir. "We have discovered a tunnel running between Pakistan and India in Samba district," SSP (Samba) Israr Khan told reporters. The tunnel was detected after an area caved-in at two or three places due to rains near the BSF's Chillayari Border Out Post (BOP), he said....
08:26 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Vijayawada: Psycho-killer Rachakonda Sambasiva continues to elude police even though it has been six days since the police have launched a hunt for him in the Kondapalli forest area. The police have decided to stop combing operations from Wednesday as psycho-Samba is still at large though hundreds of police drawn from Guntur and Krishna districts have been combing the forest area. The police, however, decided to maintain vigil at all...
12:31 PM, Jul 18, 2012
