SRINAGAR — Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday said Omicron variant causes mild illness in individuals who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. “If you have received both doses of Covid-19 vaccine, you are less likely to get severe disease from the new variant,” said DAK President and Influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. The DAK […]
SRINAGAR — Mehbooba Mufti on Monday staged a dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest the alleged repression of people of Jammu and Kashmir and demanded that killing of innocents be stopped immediately, Press Trust of India reported. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said she decided to stage a dharna in […]
SRINAGAR — Srinagar-Ladakh national highway and Mughal road connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri in Jammu division remained closed for the vehicular traffic due to accumulation of snowfall, a traffic police official said on Monday. However, Srinagar-Jammu national highway was through for the vehicular traffic, the traffic official said. He further said, about a […]
SRINAGAR — Weatherman on Monday forecast mainly dry weather for next ten days with possibility of light rain and snow around December 8-9 at some places in Jammu and Kashmir. “As expected, weather has improved and is mainly clear in all districts,” an official of the meteorological department here said. Regarding forecast for next ten […]
JAMMU — Police have registered a case after posters of a militant group were found pasted in a village in the Thanamandi area Rajouri district, officials said on Sunday. Two posters of the Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF) were found pasted outside shops in the border district’s Azmatabad village on Saturday, they added. The […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir has the highest share of five per cent budget allocation in the health sector across the country, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Sunday, as he asserted that the Union Territory administration is committed to continuously strengthening the health system and making healthcare more affordable and accessible to all. Sinha […]
JAMMU — Consistent erosion of Article 370 and denial of democracy alienated people in Jammu and Kashmir, CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami said on Sunday. The former legislator was responding to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement that although Article 370 was in place for decades, but there was no peace in Jammu and Kashmir. […]
MANCHESTER — A plane carrying a “Free Kashmir, 2,500 days occupied” banner was spotted during a football match in Manchester, leaving spectators surprised and amused. The incident happened during the Crystal Palace vs Manchester United match, which was taking place at the Old Trafford — a football stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is still […]
SRINAGAR — Amid an outcry over the depiction of last messenger of Islam in a class 7 textbook in circulation across various valley-based educational institutions, District administration Srinagar has sought an First Information Report be lodged against the Delhi-based publication house alongside a local distributor here on Sunday. The Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr. Syed […]
SRINAGAR — Board of School Education has directed all schools in Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh not to use the contentious class 7 ‘History and Civics’ textbook over the depiction of last messenger of Islam. “All the schools of UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh affiliated either with CBSE, JKBOSE or […]