Kashmir

Srinagar admin bans use, sale, possession, transport of drones, similar UAVs in district

SRINAGAR — The authorities in Srinagar district have banned the storage, sale, possession, use and transport of drones and similar kind of unmanned aerial vehicles in the territorial jurisdiction of the district. In an order, district magistrate Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz has said that to secure the aerial space near the vital installations and highly populated […]

Kashmir

DDC member booked for assaulting Tehsildar in Bandipora

BANDIPORA — The Jammu and Kashmir police have booked a district development council (DDC) member of JK Apni party from Arin constituency for assaulting a revenue official in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday. Official sources told that a team of revenue officials including assistant commissioner revenue Bandipora, Parvaiz Rahim and Tehsildar Bandipora, Sheikh Tariq […]

India

Covid will be reduced to an endemic: Experts

NEW DELHI — Cases of Covid-19 might be declining steadily but as the virus is mutating, attaining that magical zero figure in Delhi is unlikely, experts have said, and predicted that coronavirus will be reduced to an endemic in the future. Dr Suresh Kumar, medical director of Delhi government-run LNJP Hospital, said there will always […]

Kashmir

J&K police issue show-cause notice to ‘The Wire’ in relation to recent two stories from Kashmir

SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday served a show-cause notice to The Wire, asking the news website’s editor-in-chief to explain why action should not be taken against them for allegedly misrepresenting facts and circulating concocted stories. “Such news articles has [have] caused fear and alarm among the people at large and that […]