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Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

A principal correspondent, Ravi Krishnan Khajuria is the bureau chief at Jammu. He covers politics, defence, crime, health and civic issues for Jammu city.

Articles by Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

White water rafting comes to halt as India stanches Chenab water

The action has resulted in drying up of Chenab river thus impacting 24 companies associated with the sport in Baradari

A total of 24 companies associated with white water rafting, which have nearly 250 staff that provide rafting services to the tourists have been hit hard. (HT Photo)

Chandigarh

Published on May 06, 2025 05:04 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Terror hideout busted in J&K’s Poonch, 5 IEDs found

All five ready-to-use IEDs, weighing between half-a-kg and 5kg, were destroyed in a controlled explosion on the spot in a forest area near Surankote in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.

The five IEDs wrapped in brown adhesive tape (left) and other items, including wireless sets, recovered from the terror hideout in the Marhote forest area near Surankote in Poonch district late on Sunday evening. (HT Photo)

Chandigarh

Updated on May 05, 2025 01:01 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

India cuts off water flow to Pakistan from dam on river Chenab

India’s actions came within hours of Pakistan’s testing its surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Saturday.

India begun de-silting operations in the Baglihar dam and lowered sluice gates, reducing downstream flow to Pakistan by up to 90%. (ANI)

India News

Updated on May 05, 2025 03:54 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Zia Haq

3 soldiers die as army truck plunges into gorge in Ramban

Ramban senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kulbir Singh said three soldiers died in the accident which took place between Battery Chashma and Monkey Morh on Jammu-Srinagar national highway around noon

mangled remains of the truck in Ramban on Sunday. (HT Photo)

Chandigarh

Published on May 05, 2025 05:18 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Four hydel projects over Chenab in J&K likely to be commissioned by 2028

Chenab river is one of three Western rivers that fall under Indus Water Treaty,1960, which India suspended as part of punitive measures against Pakistan in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22

These four projects are expected to generate over 10,541 million units (MU) of electricity annually (HT File)

Chandigarh

Published on May 03, 2025 09:12 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Pak violates ceasefire along LoC in Kupwara, Uri, Akhnoor

This was the seventh consecutive day of truce violations by Pakistan amid heightened hostilities in the aftermath of the April 22 Pahalgam attack that claimed 26 lives, 25 tourists and a local

Indian paramilitary personnel stand guard as schoolgirls walk along a street in Srinagar on Thursday. (AFP)

Chandigarh

Published on May 02, 2025 09:22 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Change of guard at Northern Command as Lt Gen Suchindra Kumar retires

Jammu-based defence spokesperson Lt Colonel Suneel Bartwal said Lt Gen Suchindra Kumar on Wednesday laid a wreath at Dhruva War Memorial in Udhampur

Lt Gen Pratik Sharma will be the new general officer commanding-in-chief of the Northern Command. (HT Photo)

Chandigarh

Published on May 01, 2025 06:58 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Pakistani Rangers vacate watch towers, remove flags: Officials

Villagers in forward areas have been working overtime to harvest wheat crops in Kathua, Samba and Jammu districts, officials said

Residents of Nambala area of Rajouri district outside a bunker on Wednesday. (ANI)

Chandigarh

Published on May 01, 2025 04:00 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Won’t cite Pahalgam attack to push for statehood: Omar

Being the CM & tourism minister, I invited them (tourists) here and had a duty to send them back home safe, which I couldn’t do, says J&K CM Omar Abdullah

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah speaks in the House during the one-day special assembly session convened to discuss the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives, in Jammu on Monday. (Photo:X)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 29, 2025 05:44 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Pahalgam terror attack: Centre should answer for security ‘lapses’, say J&K MLAs

Former judge and independent MLA from Thannamandi Muzaffar Iqbal Khan described the attack as ‘darkest chapter in the history of Jammu and Kashmir’

Members of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly during the one-day special session convened to discuss the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives, in Jammu on Monday. (Photo:X)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 29, 2025 05:04 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Rajnath briefs PM as LoC on edge; J&K passes resolution

The resolution – which didn’t mention Pak— was passed after a discussion where CM Abdullah said he will not cite the attack to push for statehood.

A security person stands guard as tourists line up at Gondola cable car station in Gulmarg. (PTI)

India News

Updated on Apr 29, 2025 05:02 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

J&K assembly condemns Pahalgam terror attack, appeals to stay united

Members observe two-minute silence to pay homage to 26 people killed in April 22 terror attack, endorse Centre’s diplomatic measures against Pakistan.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah along with MLAs observing silence to pay tribute to the victims of Pahalgam terror attack during the one-day special session of the assembly in Srinagar on Monday. (PTI Photo)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 28, 2025 12:38 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

Omar reviews relief, restoration efforts during his third visit to Ramban, to give 5 marla plots to flood victims

Chief minister Omar Abdullah, on Saturday, said that his government will provide 5 marla plot to the people, who not only lost their houses but also their land in the recent landslides triggered by heavy rains.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during a visit to an affected area after the recent cloudbursts that triggered flash floods and landslides, to review restoration work, in Ramban district. (PTI)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 27, 2025 08:36 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Amid tension with Pak, media asked to refrain from live coverage of defence ops

I&B ministry issues advisory for all media platforms, news agencies and social media users, contending that such reportage about movement of security forces might inadvertently help hostile elements.

Amid escalating tension with Pakistan since the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, the Government of India on Saturday asked media outlets to refrain from live coverage of defence operations and the movement of security forces. (HT File)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 27, 2025 08:08 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Amid tension with Pak, media told to refrain from live coverage of defence ops

The ministry of information and broadcasting, in an advisory, contended that such reportage might inadvertently help hostile elements

An Indian security force trooper during a cordon and search operation in Kashmir's Kulgam district on Saturday. (REUTERS)

India News

Published on Apr 26, 2025 06:15 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

Amid Indo-Pak tensions, GMCH Jammu put on alert

An order issued by the medical superintendent of GMCH, Jammu, read, ‘Readiness measures in view of cross-border Tension in UT of J&K

Staff members have also been directed to remain alert and ensure complete preparedness to meet any exigencies. (HT representative)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 26, 2025 09:46 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Pakistan beefs up Chenab Rangers opposite Jammu border

The 200 km long Indo-Pak international border starts from Paharpur adjoining Kathua and runs up to Akhnoor sector in Jammu district

BSF has the operational responsibility of the entire IB. (HT representative)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 26, 2025 08:58 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Jammu and Kashmir: Security beefed up at Vaishno Devi Shrine

According to an estimate, 11,000 ponywallas, palanquin owners and pithuwallas, ferry pilgrims to the cave shrine and back to Ban Ganga

On an average, 30,000 to 35,000 pilgrims visit the cave shrine during lean days and the footfall goes up to 45,000 to 50,000 pilgrims during Navratri festival. (File)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 25, 2025 07:42 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

J&K: Railways introduce more trains from Katra to New Delhi to clear rush

Similarly, a weekly train service has been notified for 5 pair of trips (on May 2, 9 16, 23 and 30 from Katra railway station

Tourists wait at Jammu railway station after returning from Kashmir on Thursday. (PTI)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 25, 2025 07:38 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

J&K: Army commando killed, two soldiers injured in Udhampur encounter

The firing took place in the Dudu-Basantgarh area during a cordon and search operation that was launched based on information about the presence of terrorists.

An army special forces commando, havaldar Jhantu Ali Shaikh of 6 Para, was killed during the encounter with terrorists in Udhampur district on Thursday. (HT Photo)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 24, 2025 12:41 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

Flights arranged, roads cleared as panicked tourists leave J&K

Authorities, including security agencies, were engaged in a mammoth evacuation operation on Wednesday.

Tourists sit in tempo as they head towards the airport, following a suspected militant attack near south Kashmir's Pahalgam, in Srinagar. (REUTERS)

India News

Updated on Apr 24, 2025 06:25 AM IST

ByAshiq Hussain, Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

Pahalgam attackers appear to have infiltrated from Bandipora-Kupwara axis

The senior official said “the possibility of some locals helping these terrorists to carry out the attack cannot be ruled out.”

The Resistance Front, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, has claimed responsibility for the Tuesday’s attack at Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam.(ANI)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 24, 2025 04:47 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Pahalgam attack: Special train from Katra to Delhi via Jammu for stranded tourists

Northern Railway has launched a special train from Katra to New Delhi for stranded tourists after the Pahalgam terror attack, accommodating extra rush.

Tourists leaving Pahalgam on Wednesday, a day after the terror attack on the Baisaran meadow left 26 people dead. (Waseem Andrabi/HT)

Chandigarh

Updated on Apr 23, 2025 05:37 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

Tourists flee Kashmir after Pahalgam attack, Omar says heartbreaking to see exodus

Tour operators cite 80% cancellations, airlines operating additional flights to fly out tourists day after worst terror attack in decades.

Tourists getting their belongings loaded on a vehicle as they leave for Srinagar airport on Wednesday, a day after the terror attack on visitors in Pahalgam. (Reuters)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 23, 2025 03:10 PM IST

ByAshiq Hussain, Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

Pahalgam attack sparks fear among tourists ahead of Amarnath Yatra

Chairman of All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association Inderjit Khajuria said that Pahalgam attack may cause an adverse impact on the ensuing Amarnath Yatra.

Paramedics carry an injured tourist at a hospital in Anantnag south of Srinagar, on April 22.(Waseem Andrabi /Hindustan Times)

India News

Published on Apr 23, 2025 08:46 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

Pahalgam terror attack triggers fear among tourists

Videos of two distraught young women from Pahalgam, one narrating how the armed terrorists asked names of tourists before shooting them and another pleading a local man to save her husband, have triggered a fear psychosis among tourists and pilgrims in the temple city.

A tourist being brought to a medical facility, after terrorists attacked a group of tourists at Pahalgam, in Anantnag district, on Tuesday. (PTI)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 23, 2025 08:32 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Omar meets flood, landslide-hit residents of Ramban, efforts on to restore highway

In second visit to Ramban in 24 hours, CM takes stock of ground situation, assures relief to flashflood-affected families.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah interacting with people affected by the flood and landslides in Ramban district on Tuesday. (PTI Photo)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 23, 2025 06:16 AM IST

ByMir Ehsan, Ravi Krishnan Khajuria, Srinagar/ Jammu:

Drug smuggler dies trying to escape police custody near Jammu

Wanted criminal Mushtaq Ali, alias Raj Ali, who attacked Bari Brahmana SHO on April 10, was being taken from Baba Bakala in Amritsar to Jammu when he tried escaping police custody and was grievously injured. He was declared dead at Govt Medical College and Hospital in Jammu.

A notorious drug smuggler, Mushtaq Ali, alias Raj Ali, alias Bacchu Don, being brought from Baba Bakala in Amritsar district of Punjab died in a scuffle while trying to escape police custody along with an accomplice near Jammu, an official said on Tuesday. (Representational photo)

Chandigarh

Updated on Apr 22, 2025 02:23 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria

Govt’s prime concern is to restore highway: Omar

Omar was in Kela Morh, a few kilometres from the Ramban district headquarters along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah at the Kela Morh area of Ramban Monday. (ANI)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 22, 2025 06:18 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Jammu-Srinagar highway to open after 6 days: NHAI

Nearly 300 vehicles stranded in landslide-hit Ramban district, commuters walking up to 6km to reach vehicles for completing onward journey; Mughal Road provides alternative link to Kashmir Valley.

Vehicles buried under the debris on Srinagar-Jammu national highway after a cloudbursts at Ramban. (Waseem Andrabi /HT)

Chandigarh

Published on Apr 21, 2025 05:18 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

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Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

A principal correspondent, Ravi Krishnan Khajuria is the bureau chief at Jammu. He covers politics, defence, crime, health and civic issues for Jammu city.

The action has resulted in drying up of Chenab river thus impacting 24 companies associated with the sport in Baradari

All five ready-to-use IEDs, weighing between half-a-kg and 5kg, were destroyed in a controlled explosion on the spot in a forest area near Surankote in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.

India’s actions came within hours of Pakistan’s testing its surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Saturday.

Ramban senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kulbir Singh said three soldiers died in the accident which took place between Battery Chashma and Monkey Morh on Jammu-Srinagar national highway around noon

Chenab river is one of three Western rivers that fall under Indus Water Treaty,1960, which India suspended as part of punitive measures against Pakistan in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22

This was the seventh consecutive day of truce violations by Pakistan amid heightened hostilities in the aftermath of the April 22 Pahalgam attack that claimed 26 lives, 25 tourists and a local

Jammu-based defence spokesperson Lt Colonel Suneel Bartwal said Lt Gen Suchindra Kumar on Wednesday laid a wreath at Dhruva War Memorial in Udhampur

Villagers in forward areas have been working overtime to harvest wheat crops in Kathua, Samba and Jammu districts, officials said

Being the CM & tourism minister, I invited them (tourists) here and had a duty to send them back home safe, which I couldn’t do, says J&K CM Omar Abdullah

Former judge and independent MLA from Thannamandi Muzaffar Iqbal Khan described the attack as ‘darkest chapter in the history of Jammu and Kashmir’

The resolution – which didn’t mention Pak— was passed after a discussion where CM Abdullah said he will not cite the attack to push for statehood.

Members observe two-minute silence to pay homage to 26 people killed in April 22 terror attack, endorse Centre’s diplomatic measures against Pakistan.

Chief minister Omar Abdullah, on Saturday, said that his government will provide 5 marla plot to the people, who not only lost their houses but also their land in the recent landslides triggered by heavy rains.

I&B ministry issues advisory for all media platforms, news agencies and social media users, contending that such reportage about movement of security forces might inadvertently help hostile elements.

The ministry of information and broadcasting, in an advisory, contended that such reportage might inadvertently help hostile elements

An order issued by the medical superintendent of GMCH, Jammu, read, ‘Readiness measures in view of cross-border Tension in UT of J&K

The 200 km long Indo-Pak international border starts from Paharpur adjoining Kathua and runs up to Akhnoor sector in Jammu district

According to an estimate, 11,000 ponywallas, palanquin owners and pithuwallas, ferry pilgrims to the cave shrine and back to Ban Ganga

Similarly, a weekly train service has been notified for 5 pair of trips (on May 2, 9 16, 23 and 30 from Katra railway station

The firing took place in the Dudu-Basantgarh area during a cordon and search operation that was launched based on information about the presence of terrorists.

Authorities, including security agencies, were engaged in a mammoth evacuation operation on Wednesday.

The senior official said “the possibility of some locals helping these terrorists to carry out the attack cannot be ruled out.”

Northern Railway has launched a special train from Katra to New Delhi for stranded tourists after the Pahalgam terror attack, accommodating extra rush.

Tour operators cite 80% cancellations, airlines operating additional flights to fly out tourists day after worst terror attack in decades.

Chairman of All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association Inderjit Khajuria said that Pahalgam attack may cause an adverse impact on the ensuing Amarnath Yatra.

Videos of two distraught young women from Pahalgam, one narrating how the armed terrorists asked names of tourists before shooting them and another pleading a local man to save her husband, have triggered a fear psychosis among tourists and pilgrims in the temple city.

In second visit to Ramban in 24 hours, CM takes stock of ground situation, assures relief to flashflood-affected families.

Wanted criminal Mushtaq Ali, alias Raj Ali, who attacked Bari Brahmana SHO on April 10, was being taken from Baba Bakala in Amritsar to Jammu when he tried escaping police custody and was grievously injured. He was declared dead at Govt Medical College and Hospital in Jammu.

Omar was in Kela Morh, a few kilometres from the Ramban district headquarters along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway

Nearly 300 vehicles stranded in landslide-hit Ramban district, commuters walking up to 6km to reach vehicles for completing onward journey; Mughal Road provides alternative link to Kashmir Valley.

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