JAMMU — Migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees on Wednesday intensified their months-long protest demanding a transfer from the Valley following Lt Governor Manoj Sinha’s remarks about stopping their salaries. The protesters also said it was best for the government to sack them as they would not rejoin their services in the Valley in the absence of […]
SRINAGAR — A family from Anantnag has alleged medical negligence at Shifa Hospital in Srinagar’s Magarmal Bagh and have submitted their representation to LG Manoj Sinha, prompting the authorities to order a probe. In the letter, Tawseef Ahmad Nath from Wanpoh Anantnag complained that her spouse was diagnosed with sub mucosal fibroid Uterus and was […]
JAMMU — A minor girl allegedly kidnapped last month from Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district was found in Pune and her abductor arrested, police said on Wednesday. The girl had gone missing on November 16. When she did not return from school, her family members launched a search for her but the girl could not […]
SRINAGAR — The authorities in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday sealed two USG centres at Seer Hamdan for violating the norms, officials said. Quoting an official news agency KDC reported that on the directions of Deputy Commissioner Anantnag and Chief Medical officer, a team of the health department headed by Block Medical Officer Mattan […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board has issued an advisory asking visitors not to take photos or videos of the revered shrine of Hazratbal here without permission. J&K Waqf Board chairperson and BJP leader Darakshan Abdrabi has issued posters of the order which were put up around the shrine on Wednesday. The diktat […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday asserted all necessary measures have been taken for the safety of minority community employees including Kashmiri Pandits serving in the Valley, and sent out a “loud and clear” message to those protesting for transfer — no salary for sitting at home. Sinha made the […]
(By Ruhail Maqbool Sheikh) “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” It’s almost impossible to imagine life without running water, so long as it’s clean. But there are millions of people in the world who don’t have access to clean drinking water. They spend their days collecting dirty water in […]
BARAMULLA — A teenage girl died while 10 others were injured in a road accident in Rafiabad area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday afternoon. Quoting an official news agency KNO reported that a collision took place between three vehicles on Baramulla-Handwara highway in Rafiabad, leaving a teenage girl dead and 10 injured others […]
SRINAGAR — Senior superintendent (SSP) SDRF Kashmir, Firdous Iqbal on Wednesday said they have been putting every possible effort to retrive the body of a teenage girl, who had jumped into the river Jhelum in Sopore around 10 days ago. After taking first hand report of the search and rescue operation in Sopore today, he […]
SRINAGAR — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday said that whosoever would be found part of the “terror ecosystem” will face action as per the law and that it was the prime duty of police and security agencies to trace such people. “Whosoever is found to be part of terror ecosystem will face action, none will […]