According to senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, the yatra will resume on Friday at 8 in the morning.
January 25, 2023Hundreds of tourists and passengers were stranded due to the landslides. Large number of loaded trucks heading towards Srinagar were also stranded.
June 25, 2022The police on Wednesday recovered explosive gelatin sticks from a passenger bus at Jhajjar Kotli on the Jammu--Srinagar highway.
June 15, 2022The Chief Secretary chaired a meeting to review the status of National Highway-44 and took stock of the ongoing road-widening works, especially in District Ramban.
July 26, 2021The Mughal Road, the second road link between Kashmir and Jammu, is closed due to snow.
February 4, 2021The driver and another occupant of the vehicle are believed to have died in the vehicle that was caught in snow on Saturday.
January 25, 2021The infiltration by the terrorists happened from along the International Border (IB) in Kathua district to carry out an attack, according to the police.
February 1, 2020The Highway was affected on Friday as well as the fresh snowfall on Jawahar Tunnel, the gateway to Kashmir, and multiple landslides between Ramsoo and Panthiyal in Ramban district forced the closure of highway.
December 23, 2019Top officers of CRPF, police and civil administration paid tributes to Shailender Vikram Singh, DIG, CRPF and Constable Naveen Kumar who were killed when their official vehicle was crushed by huge boulders near Digdol (Ramsoo) on the highway.
December 16, 2019Police have issued cut off timing for the pilgrims moving to Kashmir along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway and said no RFID tagged yatra or tourist vehicles would be allowed to proceed after the cut off timing.
June 30, 2019The langar associations, engaged for the past several years in providing free food to the pilgrims, are disappointed as the order of the SASB does not provide them ample time to set up the community kitchens on the two routes of the pilgrimage.
June 6, 2019The state government announced that Wednesday's ban on the movement of civilian traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway would be lifted on 13 May, however, the restrictions on Sundays would continue.
May 8, 2019Governor Satya Pal Malik has asked the authorities to see that inconvenience was not caused to civilians during the highway ban.
April 10, 2019The preventive measure of earmarking Sundays and Wednesdays till 31 May has been ordered following the recent Pulwama-type attack that failed in Banihal area on the highway while a convoy of the CRPF was moving.
April 7, 2019These restrictions have been ordered following the terror attack in Pulwama where 44 CRPF personnel were killed and a recent similar attack in Banihal that failed.
April 3, 2019A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was rushed to the spot to collect samples from the explosion spot and investigate into the incident from all possible angles.
March 30, 2019"There was no loss of life... The driver of the car, who was the lone occupant, appears to have escaped," the officer said.
March 30, 2019