SRINAGAR — Director Handicrafts and Handloom Kashmir, Mahmood Ahmad Shah held an extensive web meeting with Dr Suyash Chavan Consulate General of India (CGI), Germany. The online meeting dealt exclusively in reviewing the scope of developing end-to-end export linkages to provide quality handicraft products of Kashmir to the German Market in particular and rest of […]
PULWAMA — A policeman was crushed to death by a train in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday, police said. A police official said that a Head constable Mohammad Hussain Dar (48) was hit by a train while he was performing his duties near GRP (Panzgam), resulting in his on the spot death. They said […]
SRINAGAR — Covid-19 cases continue to mount as Jammu and Kashmir reported 5720 new infections while five more persons succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Friday. They said that 1890 the fresh cases were confirmed from Jammu Division and 3830 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally to 384381. […]
NEW DELHI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah will release the District Good Governance Index for 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, the first of its kind index for a union territory. Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir will […]
SRINAGAR — Directorate of Health Services Kashmir (DHSK) on Friday directed all Chief Medical Officers (CMO) and Medical Superintendents to dedicate one or two dialysis machines (beds) in district hospitals/sub district hospitals for Covid positive dialysis patients. He also directed them to issue immediate necessary directions to all such registered private dialysis unit holders to […]
SRINAGAR — A trooper died of brain hemorrhage in Srinagar hospital today. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a CRPF Head Constable suffered a brain hemorrhage. He was taken to SMHS Hospital Srinagar where he expired. Sources identified the trooper as Vijay Narayan, a resident of Allahabad Uttar Pradesh. The deceased was affiliated […]
JAMMU — Two persons are feared dead in river Chenab in Ramban district, officials said on Friday. They said the truck, they were travelling in, is parked on Jammu-Srinagar and the duo was seen by someone drowning. The person subsequently raised the alarm and massive searches headed by SSP Ramban Mohita Sharma and SHO Ramban […]
SRINAGAR — The Kashmir Power Development Corporation Limited on Friday informed that a transmission tower of Samba-Amargarh line has got damaged due to landslides in Thanamandi area of Rajouri, which will result in the additional power curtailments in Kashmir valley for next two weeks. “Due to landslides at Thanamandi Rajouri, 1 tower of 400 KV […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities yet again disallowed Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjid. Anjuman Auqaf said that keeping the historic Jama Masjid continuously closed seems deliberate being done intentionally as part of an agenda. Anjuman Auqaf also demanded the release of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq from house detention. In a statement, Anjuman Auqaf said that State Authorities […]
MUMBAI — The Cyber Cell of Mumbai Police’s crime branch have made three arrests in connection to the obscene comments made against Muslim women on an audio-chatting application, Clubhouse. Police said that all three arrests were made from Haryana and Faridabad and they will be produced before a local court there for transit remand. According […]