SRINAGAR — Cracking down on agitating Kashmiri pandits, who have been demanding their relocation to safer places outside the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has issued orders to stop their salaries prompting angry reaction from the employees who threatened to intensify their agitation. The employees have been staging a dharna since May this year […]
NEW DELHI — India on Thursday said any reference to Jammu and Kashmir at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) was not useful or helpful as it needs to be resolved bilaterally in accordance with the Shimla Agreement. Addressing the ongoing UNGA in New York Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “India and Pakistan, after […]
ANANTNAG — A soldier allegedly shot himself dead in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday evening. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the soldier posted with Army’s 1 RR shot himself dead with his service rifle at High Ground in Annatnag. He said that the reason behind soldier taking this extreme […]
JAMMU — The Jammu-Srinagar national highway will remain closed for traffic for four hours daily till September 27 to undertake repairs in various landslides prone areas, officials said. Traffic would be halted from 3 am to 7 am during the repair work, according to the direction issued by Chief Secretary A K Mehta. To carry […]
SRINAGAR — The government on Thursday terminated six doctors from services after remaining unauthorizedly absent while let off eleven others subject to them tendering an undertaking to serve J&K for at least five years. They expelled doctors include Dr Mudasir Bashir of Batamaloo Srinagar, Dr Muzaffar Mohidin Hakeem of Palhalan Pattan, Dr Shazia Kausar of […]
SRINAGAR — The Waqf Board has identified the land for the much-needed cancer hospital in Kashmir at Eidgah area of Srinagar and has urged the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to lay it’s foundation stone. Talking exclusively with the news agency Kashmir News Observer, Andrabi said that the cancer hospital was set to come up […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday imposed a complete ban on import of bovine animals from neighboring states till October 25 in the wake of the lumpy virus affecting cattle. It also restricted inter-district movement of these animals during this period. “This government order has been issued in the wake of spread […]
SRINAGAR — A 35-year-old man was killed Thursday afternoon when a sand cave that he and other laborers were digging collapsed onto him, authorities said. They said some laborers were tunneling into the side of a sand dune in the Rangpath forest area of Kralgund Handwara when the sand caved in. The laborer identified as […]
SRINAGAR — The much-awaited 500-bed Children Hospital in Bemina area of Srinagar will be made functional from September 26, officials said here on Thursday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that all machinery and other equipment have been shifted to the hospital and it will be made functional from Monday. He said […]
JAMMU — The notification of J&K Waqf Board issued in 1985 in which over 500 Kanals of land were notified as Waqf property in Poonch district was challenged in the high court in 2018 and because of the deliberate delay being caused by the concerned deputy commissioner in replying the court notices, the case is […]