SOPORE — Amid rising wild animal attacks in Kashmir especially in North Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir’s Wildlife Protection department on Friday issued an advisory to avoid man-wild animal conflict. In an advisory, issued by Wildlife Warden North Division Sopore, officials advised people not to move alone in the forest area. The advisory reads that children […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list after Dussehra vacation the pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices Indira Banerjee and S Ravindra Bhat took note of the […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir government has attached a KAS officer for poor performance in implementing SBMG plan in summer capital Srinagar. Commissioner Secretary Rural Development and Panchayat Raj according in an order said, “In the interest of administration Nighat Alam, JKAS, Assistant Commissioner (Panchayat) Srinagar is hereby attached in the Directorate of Rural Sanitation, […]
SRINAGAR — Dry weather conditions will prevail in Jammu and Kashmir for the next 24 hours, the Meteorological (MeT) office said on Friday. “Dry weather is likely to continue in J&K during the next 24 hours,”, an official of the MeT department said. Srinagar had 13.7, Pahalgam 9.6 and Gulmarg 8.6 degrees Celsius as the […]
SRINAGAR — Cracking down on agitating Kashmiri pandits, who have been demanding their relocation to safer places outside the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has issued orders to stop their salaries prompting angry reaction from the employees who threatened to intensify their agitation. The employees have been staging a dharna since May this year […]
NEW DELHI — India on Thursday said any reference to Jammu and Kashmir at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) was not useful or helpful as it needs to be resolved bilaterally in accordance with the Shimla Agreement. Addressing the ongoing UNGA in New York Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “India and Pakistan, after […]
ANANTNAG — A soldier allegedly shot himself dead in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday evening. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the soldier posted with Army’s 1 RR shot himself dead with his service rifle at High Ground in Annatnag. He said that the reason behind soldier taking this extreme […]
SRINAGAR — The government on Thursday terminated six doctors from services after remaining unauthorizedly absent while let off eleven others subject to them tendering an undertaking to serve J&K for at least five years. They expelled doctors include Dr Mudasir Bashir of Batamaloo Srinagar, Dr Muzaffar Mohidin Hakeem of Palhalan Pattan, Dr Shazia Kausar of […]
SRINAGAR — The Waqf Board has identified the land for the much-needed cancer hospital in Kashmir at Eidgah area of Srinagar and has urged the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to lay it’s foundation stone. Talking exclusively with the news agency Kashmir News Observer, Andrabi said that the cancer hospital was set to come up […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday imposed a complete ban on import of bovine animals from neighboring states till October 25 in the wake of the lumpy virus affecting cattle. It also restricted inter-district movement of these animals during this period. “This government order has been issued in the wake of spread […]