SRINAGAR — Three shops were gutted in a massive blaze that broke out at a shopping complex in Soura area of Srinagar on Thursday morning. Official sources told that fire broke out in a commercial shopping complex of Abdul Hameed Teli in Soura today morning, in which three shops got completely damaged. They said that […]
PULWAMA — The administration of District Hospital in Pulwama has made a bizarre arrangement by posting volunteers and non technical staff in Operation Theatre while technical hands have been placed in casualties and other wards, risking patients. The hospital has six anaesthetist assistants who have qualification and training in their respective areas but the administration […]
SRINAGAR — A man who was running a poultry farm was found dead in the Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said. A police official told that a 26-year-old man’s body was found near Akram School in Sopore area. He identified the deceased as Showkat Ahmad son of Abdul Gani, a resident of […]
SRINAGAR — J&K government directive allowing conditional reopening of schools for Class 10 and 12 students has evoked a lukewarm response among the students and their families in the Valley. This has found a reflection in the low turnout in the school campuses across Kashmir. On September 5, which is observed as the Teacher’s Day, […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Kashmir raided the homes of four journalists on Wednesday, triggering concerns of a further crackdown on press freedom in the region. After the raids in Srinagar, the region’s main city, the four journalists were summoned to a local police station where they were briefly questioned but detained the whole day. Police […]
MATHURA (UP) — Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Wednesday said Muslims should be given political representation not on religious grounds but for being a minority community. Athawale had arrived here to inaugurate the Sangeet Shiromani Swami Haridas Aavirbhav Mahotsav, organised at Sri Radhaprasad Dham located on the Parikrama Marg of Vrindavan. Athawale told reporters that […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Wednesday suspended two officials in Jammu and Kashmir”s Samba district for being absent from duty. Samba Deputy Commissioner Anuradha Gupta through an order suspended a senior stenographer and an assistant revenue attorney of the DC office, said officials. They face the action for unauthorised absence and dereliction of duty, they said. […]
BANDIPORA — Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a woman Over Ground Worker in Aloosa area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. A senior Police officer told that based on specific information today a naka was established at Aloosa Bandipora regarding movement of a woman OGW. On being intercepted one grenade and huge numbers of […]
SRINAGAR — The subscribers of private telecommunication companies like Jio and Airtel have complained about erratic calling and internet services in several villages of Tral sub division of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Locals from Tral areas that include Bargam, Nagpathri and its adjacent villages of Tral said that the weak signal is giving a tough […]
SRINAGAR — The government on Tuesday appointed additional chief secretary Atal Dulloo as the enquiry officer into the change in scope of construction work of flats from 1 BHK to 2 BHK for transit accommodation of Kashmiri migrants. According to an order issued by Commissioner Secretary to the Government Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, Dulloo, who is […]