JAMMU — Two person including a Jammu and Kashmir Police official died in a road accident that took place near golf course Sidhra in Jammu city. The accident took place in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday after a car JK02CQ 8145 and a tractor JK02CU 1807 collided with each other allegedly after tractor […]
ANANTNAG — Students and their parents from Thaman Koot, a remote village of Verinag in south Kashmir’s Anantnag on Tuesday staged protest and locked down the school against shortage of teaching staff. Reports said that scores of students along with their parents assembled in the premises of Government High School Thaman Koot, staged the protest […]
SRINAGAR — After closed briefly due to landslides at Chamalwas area of Ramban, the traffic movement on Jammu-Srinagar highway has been resumed, officials said. “Traffic movement has resumed at Rehampadi, Chamalwas, from both sides on the national highway,” traffic official said. Landslides were reported to have occurred in the Rehampadi Chamalwas area on the national […]
SRINAGAR — Weatherman has forecast widespread light to moderate rain and snowfall in Kashmir Valley from Sunday night to March 8. “As expected, light rain/snow occurred at some places Kashmir. Currently, weather is overcast to cloudy at most places of Kashmir & at some places of Jammu,” a meteorological department official said in a statement. […]
SRINAGAR — Directorate of School Education has suspended the Principal of a government educational institute for his alleged misconduct in Srinagar. Director School Education Kashmir has issued an order vide number 202 DSEK of 2022, stating that pending inquiry into his conduct by Chief Education Officer, Srinagar, Mr. Nazir Ahmed Khan, Principal Boys Higher Secondary […]
SRINAGAR — Traffic on Jammu-Srinagar highway, the only surface link connecting Kashmir Valley with the outside world, was halted on Thursday following a landslide at Chamalwas, Banihal area of Ramban district. A traffic department official told GNS that restoration work was underway. Meanwhile, Mughal Road, connecting Shopian with Poonch and Rajouri districts, remained closed for […]
NEW DELHI — India’s Covid-19 case tally rose to 4,29,45,160 with 6,561 people testing positive for the infection in a day while active cases declined to 77,152, according to Union Health Ministry data on Thursday. The death toll has climbed to 5,14,388 with 142 more people succumbing to the disease, the data updated at 8 […]
SRINAGAR — Gulmarg received fresh snowfall while rains lashed some parts of Jammu and Kashmir including this summer capital, officials said on Thursday. With overnight cloud cover, the night temperature hovered around above freezing point in all observatory places of the meteorological department barring the Gulmarg. A meteorological department official told GNS that Srinagar, the […]
SRINAGAR — High Court of J&K and Ladakh has quashed detention of four persons who were booked under Public Safety Act (PSA). Allowing their separate Habeas Corpus pleas, bench of Javed Iqbal Wani quashed detention of Zubair Ahmad Reshi of Ashajipora Anantnag, Showkat Ahmad Ganie of Old Barzulla, Srinagar and Rouf ul Islam of Pulwama. […]
WASHINGTON — The Indian government has taken some steps to restore normalcy in Kashmir, a senior US diplomat has told American lawmakers, while asserting that the Joe Biden administration is keeping a close eye on the security situation, including militant threats in the region. The Indian Parliament had revoked the special status of Jammu and […]