Rajouri, August 23: Bodies of two infiltrators were observed during reconnaissance of the site of the attempted infiltration at the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu.
An Indian Army quadcopter on Tuesday morning, initiated the exploration of the site where on Monday night, they thwarted an attempt of infiltration at the LoC border in the Naushera Sector of Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir.
During the exploration, bodies of two infiltrators were observed. The area is being scanned further.
According to a Defence spokesperson, the Indian Army successfully stopped an attempt of infiltration at the LoC border in the Naushera Sector of Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir.
More details are awaited. (Agencies)

JAMMU, Aug 23: Army has foiled an infiltration attempt by a group of terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesperson said on Tuesday.
There was movement of suspected infiltrators in Naushera sector on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. A search operation in the area is underway and further details are awaited, he said.
According to officials, a group of suspected terrorists tried to sneak into Pukharni village of Laam in Naushera under the cover of darkness from across the border.
One of the terrorists stepped over a landmine causing an explosion around 10 pm on Monday, they said, adding the alert Army troops who were observing the movement of the terrorists laid a cordon and started a search of the area on Tuesday morning.
It is not immediately known whether any terrorist was injured or killed in the explosion, officials said.
The latest infiltration bid in the Naushera sector comes close on the heels of the arrest of a highly trained Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guide, who also worked for an intelligence unit of Pakistani army, in an injured condition by Army on Sunday.
Tabarak Hussain (32), a resident of Sabzkot village of Kotli in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), was arrested for the second time in the past six years while trying to infiltrate into this side from across the border. (Agencies)

JAMMU, Aug 23: An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 on the Richter scale hits Katra, Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Monday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed.
The earthquake occurred at 2:20 am on Monday. The depth of the earthquake was 10 Km below the ground.
“Earthquake of Magnitude:3.9, Occurred on 23-08-2022, 02:20:32 IST, Lat: 33.07 & Long: 75.58, Depth: 10 Km, Location: 61km E of Katra, Jammu and Kashmir,” tweeted NCS

SRINAGAR, Aug 23: One more Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel died on Monday night in the Pahalgam bus accident. He is the eighth personnel to die after a bus carrying 39 personnel fell into a river in the Pahalgam area of Jammu and Kashmir on August 16.
The deceased personnel was identified as Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Nandan Singh of the 4th Battalion. He was admitted to the SKIMS Hospital in Srinagar with critical injuries following the accident.
The bus had allegedly skidded off the road at Zig Morh Frislan, Chandanwari and fell into a river. More than 30 are being treated in different hospitals, said ITBP officials.
Earlier, the ITBP set up a court of inquiry to probe the reasons behind the accident. (AGENCIES)

SRINAGAR, AUGUST 22: Over the last three years, the pace of execution of developmental schemes across Jammu and Kashmir has increased by five times on account of a resurgent institutional framework development by the present administration under Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha.
In the last two years, the government has endeavoured to develop areas which remained neglected till now. Dalits, tribals and socio-economically backward classes have benefited from an equitable governance system of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Union Territory has achieved new horizons of success in the field of business, economy, education, culture as well as sports. Jammu and Kashmir has positioned itself as leader from laggard in the world of progress and prosperity with completion of over 60,000 development projects in the past three years.
As per the official details, district CAPEX budget has been increased four-fold to Rs. 22,126 crore for completion of various developmental projects.
“Grass root democratic institutions like Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies have been empowered to actively participate in the decision-making process to cater to the needs of common citizens. There are around 20,000 such works/projects under execution presently which have been solely identified by the people”, official data reveals.
According to official documents, 66,724 development projects have been completed in the Union Territory from 2019 to January 2022.
The break up details stated that 9229 projects have been completed during 2018-19, 12637 in 2019-20, 21943 during 2020-21, exhibiting a steep increase as compared to previous years’ achievements while 22975 works have been completed during the financial year 2021-22, till January 2022.
The records added that the “financial reforms and interventions” initiated by the Centre have facilitated completion of such a long list of development projects within the set timelines in the Union Territory.
“Authorization of projects and resources allocation is made through Budget Estimation, Allocation and Monitoring System (BEAMS), which is a real-time and paperless system. Through these interventions, the Union Territory has witnessed an unprecedented rise in completion of development works and projects in three years,” the document reads further.
Similarly, implementation of transformative reforms such as BEAMS which enable online budgetary process and timely release of funds against approved works, online submission of bills through J&K PaySys, Mandatory Administrative Approvals, Technical Sanctions and e-Tendering, digital payments, GFR, GeM and related measures have paced up the development works and brought J&K at par with any other progressive state across the country.
Apart from prioritizing newly sanctioned works, the administration has also focused on languishing projects.
Meanwhile, JKIDFC, a unique model across the country, has achieved tremendous transparency with incorporation of online payment tracking mechanism, tender details/allotment information and geo-tagging of all the projects approved for funding under the languishing scheme of JKIDFC.
The J&K administration linked every project approved under JKIDFC with Google Earth for real time monitoring which facilitated public viewing on the official website of JKIDFC. These measures had been taken to ensure the quality and timely completion of all these infrastructural projects languishing in the UT for a long time.