SRINAGAR — An 8-year-old girl died after drowning in a river near her house at Chanigam area of Ashmuqam in South Kashmir’s Anantnag on Saturday evening, an official said. An official said that a girl identified as Aasia Fayaz (8) daughter of Fayaz Ahmad Shah, a resident of Chanigam Ashmuqam slipped and drowned into a […]
JAMMU — Jammu recorded its hottest day of the season so far with the mercury touching 43.5 degrees Celsius on Saturday as the heatwave intensified engulfing most parts of Jammu and Kashmir. The maximum temperature in Jammu city was 6.6 degrees above season’s average, forcing people to stay indoors especially in the afternoon. Jammu recorded […]
SRINAGAR — Over 13 percent women experienced violence in J&K after their marriages and husband is the main perpetrator of the violence in majority of cases. As per the National Family Health Survey 5 (NHFS-5) findings, just 14 percent of the women who have experienced violence in J&K have sought any help. The report said […]
SRINAGAR — In order to give undue benefits to some candidates and mint money, some officials at SKIMS Soura are pushing higher ups to publish selection lists which are already under scanner. Top SKIMS officials pleading anonymity said that some officials are trying to take undue benefits of the autonomous status of SKIMS and try […]
SRINAGAR — Special Investigating Team (SIT) constituted by the Jammu and Kashmir government to probe all aspects of the killing of Kashmiri Pandit employee Rahul Bhat, will be headed by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Central Kashmir range, Sujit Kumar Singh, Officials said. He said that the SIT has been constituted and will be headed by […]
SRINAGAR — Member’s of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) are scheduled to meet Lieutenant Governor, J&K, Manoj Sinha on Sunday at Raj-Bhawan in Srinagar. Official Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that all the constituent members of PAGD would meet LG Sinha on Sunday at 11:30 am to discuss the recent killings in […]
SHEIKHPORA (BUDGAM) — Fear and anger were writ large on the faces of Kashmiri Pandit employees and their family members as they continued their protest on Saturday at the Sheikhpora transit camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district against the killing of Rahul Bhat and demanding their relocation to safer places outside Kashmir Valley. A […]
JAMMU — Reiterating his stand that the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019 was “unconstitutional and unlawful”, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday said his party is not ready to accept defeat and will continue its peaceful struggle for the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The former chief minister […]
SRINAGAR — To make Jammu and Kashmir power surplus in the next four years, Power Development Department is working earnestly towards doubling electricity generation capacity in the Union Territory in three years. The J&K government has initiated a large scale capacity augmentation programme to address the current power deficit in the UT. Earlier, Jammu and […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested two alleged over ground workers in a “TRF conspiracy case” registered suo-moto by the agency in November last year. According to a statement, NIA conducted searches at four locations in, Kupwara, Pulwama and Shopian and arrested two accused in the case. “The case relates to activities […]