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NEW DELHI — A bumper apple production in Kashmir this season has failed to cheer up growers as their produce is being sold at nearly 30 per cent lower rates than last year. Faced with huge losses, apple farmers have now sought government intervention. The Kashmiri apple hogged the headlines in September after an uproar […]

SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Thursday forecast partly cloudy weather during the next 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir. “Partly cloudy weather is likely in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar recorded 5.6 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam 1.5 degrees and Gulmarg zero degree as the […]

GANDERBAL — A youth, who was injured in a road accident in Kangan area of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, succumbed to his injuries after over a month on Thursday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the youth was injured in a road accident in Check Prang area of Kangan 36 days […]

KULGAM — Have you ever been biking with a friend and wanted to impress him or her? Well, even if you haven’t, Mohammad Farhan, a native of Kulgam in Jammu and Kashmir, will show you how to. So take out your bike, put on a helmet, and get ready to have some fun. The 15-year-old […]

SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Committee for Fixation and Regulation of Fee of Private Schools (FFRC) on Wednesday directed all schools in the valley not to charge annual fees for the period from November 2022 to March 2023 following the change of academic calendar by the government. Managements of all the private schools “are […]

GANDERBAL — A conductor of JCB died while driver and another person were injured after it skidded off the road at Kokran Bridge on Zoji La in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Wednesday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a JCB skidded off the road when it was coming from Kargil […]

SRINAGAR — The Meteorological department here predicted light rain and snow at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Light rain/snow at isolated places is likely to occur in J&K during the next 24 hours,” an official of the MeT department said on Wednesday. The weather was mainly cloudy in the […]

TITHWAL (KUPWARA) — A neat white line drawn in the middle of a suspension bridge that sits right on the Line of Control separates the border village of India’s Tithwal and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The bridge has seen wars and tumultuous phases of history in the heavily militarised region. With a ceasefire understanding reached between […]

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police have averted a major tragedy by arresting three hybrid militants from whose possession a 10-kg IED and two hand grenades were recovered on Tuesday. A police official told that Police arrested two hybrid militants identified as Aamir Mushtaq Dar S/o Mushtaq Ahmad Dar R/o Iqbalabad Sozaith Budgam and Kabil […]