JAMMU — Additional Director General of Police for Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh Friday said that starlink satellite train was seen over sky in areas of Jammu which people mistook as mysterious light of an aerial object and there was no need to panic. ADG of Police, Mukesh Singh said that starlink train of satellites have […]
SRINAGAR — Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights today made public the “communication to India on multiple alleged acts of intimidation of journalists.” The communication was in context to the harrassment of 2 Kashmir based journalists Qazi Shibli and Aakash Hassan and an Indian province Bihar’s journalist Chandrabhushan Tiwari. “On 1 October […]
JAMMU — Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday said that PDP sought votes from people of Jammu and Kashmir to keep BJP away but later the same party entered into an alliance with the BJP in 2018 and the results are well before the masses. He said perhaps J-K is the only place that […]
SRINAGAR — Government on Friday ordered that there will be online interaction of teaching faculty with students through “whatsapp group or Google-meet etc” at least once in a week during the ensuing winter vacations in Kashmir Valley and winter zone of Jammu division. According to a formal order issued by the Principal Secretary School Education […]
JAMMU — A mysterious long-trail of light in the air in parts of Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu region Friday spread panic among the local people with security forces on toes to find out what the twinkling object in the sky was all about. Eye witnesses and official sources said that in the parts […]
SRINAGAR — An army personnel was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside Badami Bagh cantonment army camp here, officials said on Friday evening. They told local news agency GNS that Anuj Singh son of Prem Chand resident of Bihar was found dead at a store room inside the army camp. The deceased belonged to Kilo […]
SRINAGAR — As the possibility of holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir is picking up pace, the political parties are returning to their old avatar of maligning each other in the recent rallies and interaction with the media. In the past one month, all the prominent leaders from across the political parties are accusing […]
JAMMU — The CBI has arrested three officials of Jammu and Kashmir’s Public Works Department for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh from a building contractor at Reasi in Udhampur, officials said on Friday. The agency took superintending engineer Hilal Ahmad Sheikh, technical officer PK Koul and junior engineer Sanjay Koul, all of […]
SRINAGAR — With India reporting two cases of Omicron, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday warned of higher rates of reinfections due to the new variant in persons who have recovered from Covid-19 infection. “The risk of reinfection from the Omicron is higher than for any previous variants,” said DAK President and Influenza expert Dr […]
NEW DELHI — Top Indian genome scientists have recommended a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines for those above 40 years with preference to high-risk and high-exposure population. The recommendation was made in the weekly bulletin of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG), a network of national testing labs set up by the government to […]