JammuSrinagar highway closed after landslide

The Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district was closed Sunday following a landslide triggered by heavy rains in the Jammu region, officials said. Several parts of the regions have been receiving heavy rainfall since Sunday, with many high-altitude areas witnessing their first snowfall of the season. Hundreds of vehicles were left stranded on the 270-km on the all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, they said. An official said incidents of shooting stones from hillocks along the highway were reported from Ramban’s Panthiyal area in Jammu and Kashmir.

registered against Malayalam actor Joy Mathew and 24 others for taking out a march in a prohibited area here in support of the nuns who had held a sit-in protest in Kochi, demanding the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun. The march was taken out on September 12 in the recently renovated ‘Mittayi Thiravu’ (sweet street), despite a prohibitory order being in force in the area. Despite being told, the actor and the others flouted rules and did so, police said Sunday. A case was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including unlawful assembly, breach of peace, rioting and obstructing public way, police said. Mathew said he had taken out the march to express solidarity with the protesting nuns. “This is an attempt to scare me,” he said.

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