SRINAGAR — Famous resorts of Gulmarg and Pahalgam received fresh snowfall while rains lashed plains in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, had 0.8mm of rainfall during the last 24 hours till 0830 hours today and recorded a low of 2.2°C […]
NEW DELHI — India on Monday reported 83,876 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its total tally to 4,22,72,014, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,02,874 with 895 more fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The number of active cases in the country declined further to 11,08,938, comprising 2.62 […]
BEIJING — China on Sunday pledged closer cooperation with Pakistan under the USD 60 billion CPEC investment programme and called for resolving the Kashmir issue properly and peacefully while opposing any “unilateral actions” that could complicate the situation as Prime Minister Imran Khan held talks with the top Chinese leadership, including President Xi Jinping. Khan […]
HYDERABAD — The members of Girls Islamic Organization, Telangana (GIO) on Sunday staged a protest against the ongoing controversy in Karnataka over wearing Hijab by girls and conditions for entry into educational institutions. Scores of women carrying placards “Hijab is my right” staged a silent protest near seven tombs at Golconda. The protestors demanded that […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to lift the weekend lockdown and also permitted the coaching centres in the Union Territory to resume offline teaching with 50 per cent capacity. This was ordered by the State Executive Committee (SEC) headed by Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. However, it has stated that […]
SRINAGAR — The administration on Sunday constituted a Committee with regard to the referral of Non-Gazetted vacancies to the J&K Services Selection Board. The four-member committee headed by Administrative Secretary, ARI & Trainings Department has been tasked to check and scrutinize the details of posts i.e. designations, numbers, eligibility criteria and creation orders with the […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to shift the acid attack survivor to Chennai hospital tomorrow for eye treatment and four tickets have already been provided to the victim’s family on Sunday. Official sources said that the administration on the advice of doctors has decided to shift the acid attack victim to […]
SRINAGAR — The Editors Guild of India has condemned the arrest of Journalist Fahad Shah, the editor of the Kashmir Walla, on Friday. As per a press statement issued by the Editors Guild of India, Shah had been questioned four days earlier for his reporting on a deadly police raid in Pulwama in late January […]
SRINAGAR — Sajjad Gani Lone led Peoples Conference taking a strong exception over draft proposal of the Delimitation Commission has said it always believed that the exercise of delimitation was an attempt to disempower and disenfranchise the people of Kashmir and we still believe that this process is designed to disempower the people of Kashmir. […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kahsmir recorded 1148 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday— the lowest in the past 26 days. Nine persons also succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, the officials said. 511 of the fresh cases, they said, were reported from Jammu Division and 640 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally […]