SRINAGAR — Authorities in Anantnag district have asked people to refrain from travelling on Sinthan and Margan pass roads due to bad weather conditions. “In view of wide spread rains, snowfall and bad weather conditions, people of Tehsil Larnoo and outside tourists are advised to refrain from venturing in landslide and shooting stone prone areas,” […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities on Thursday informed that the historic Mughal road and Srinagar-Sonamarg-Gumari (SSG) road were closed in view of fresh snowfall. However, the vehicular movement was plying on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway. Officials said that both roads were closed for vehicular movement due to snow accumulation due to fresh snowfall in higher reaches of Jammu […]
SRINAGAR — Rain in plains and snowfall in higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir occurred during the last 24 hours as the Meteorological (MeT) office said on Thursday that the same weather conditions were likely to continue. “Light to moderate rain in the plains and snowfall in the higher reaches of J&K is likely to […]
SRINAGAR — CPI (M) State Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik on Wednesday condemned the allegedly custodial killing of Imran Bashir Ganai of Harman Shopian and demanded credible probe into this unfortunate incident. Malik in a statement said that it is widely perceived that the said person had not been involved in any unlawful activity. “Recently in […]
SRINAGAR — Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo today inaugurated 550 metric ton (MT) capacity Cold Storage facility at Agri Complex Lal Mandi here. The 550 MT capacity cold storage facility would house perishable items and veggies for preservation at nominal charges to fetch marginal farmers’ attractive prices for their produce. On […]
SRINAGAR — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired the first meeting of J&K Higher Education Council here at Raj Bhawan Auditorium. The Lt Governor stressed on the need to develop a pragmatic roadmap to enhance the potential of human resources and progressively transform J&K’s universities into economic growth centres. “Our Higher Education ecosystem needs to […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, who is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in a terror financing case, on Wednesday appeared in a special court here through Video conferencing in connection with the 1990 killing of four Air Force personnel personnel. The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court […]
SRINAGAR — At least 17 drug peddlers and narcotic smugglers have been booked under PIT-NDPS in Srinagar, police said here on Wednesday. Srinagar police on its official Twitter handle informed that PIT-NDPS is preventive detention for one year akin to PSA. “Seventeen Drug peddlers and Narcotic smugglers booked under PIT-NDPS. PIT-NDPS is preventive detention for […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rapped the Jammu and Kashmir administration over unscientific dumping and disposal of solid waste, saying it cannot play with the lives of the people. A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and C T Ravikumar dismissed a plea by Municipal Committee of Bandipora against imposition of environmental compensation […]
NEW DELHI — Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo has said she was stopped from flying to the United States by immigration authorities at the Delhi airport “despite having a valid visa and ticket”. The 28-year-old photojournalist, who was awarded the Pulitzer for the coverage of COVID pandemic for Reuters, was scheduled to fly to […]