SRINAGAR — Unknown gunmen suspected to be militants shot dead a non-local labourer in Neehama area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district late on Friday. Official sources told the 35-year-old labourer identified as Shankar Choudary of Bihar was brought to district hospital Kulgam from Neehama where doctors declared him brought dead on arrival. Dr Muzaffar Zargar, […]
SRINAGAR — CPI (M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami Friday said that the latest orders of the Jammu and Kashmir administration that employee’s alleged involvement in militancy, subversion will lead to his termination and no passport will be given to employees till they get vigilance clearance are another set of arbitrary decisions, which needs to be […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) on Friday denounced the latest vigilance clearance rules for J&K employees, terming them arbitrary and dictatorial. Calling the new set of rules with regards to JK employees an upfront against the rights and privileges of employees, Party’s Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar in a statement said that the new government order […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Conference Friday termed the recently issued government directive pertaining to the character verification and antecedents of its employees yet another diktat aimed at trampling upon the democratic rights of the people and denying them and throwing the constitutional safeguards to the wind. PC spokesperson Adnan Ashraf Mir in a statement said that […]
SRINAGAR — Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said flu vaccine in times of Covid crisis is more important than ever. “As the flu season is just around the corner, addition of another respiratory illness on top of ongoing Covid-19 pandemic could overburden the health care system and compound efforts to stamp out the novel […]
SRINAGAR — A constable of Jammu and Kashmir Police was on Friday shot dead by the suspected militants in Wanpoh area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Official sources told that the militants fired upon a police constable near Shamford School, leaving him severely wounded. The injured police constable was shifted to the hospital, however, he […]
ANANTNAG — Orthopedic patients are being treated on 3rd floor at Government Medical College Anantnag here in South Kashmir. Earlier, such patients were treated on the ground floor but from past three months the ward has been shifted to 3rd floor much sufferings to these patients. Insiders told news agency Kashmir News Trust that orthopedic […]
POONCH — Anti Corruption Bureau received a written complaint alleging therein that Head Constable Bashir Ahmed of Police Station Surankote was demanding a bribe of Rs.10,000/-by the complainant. The Head Constable was Investigating Officer of case FIR No. 311/21 of Police Station Surankote under section 354/341/109 registered against the father, brother and uncle of the […]
JAMMU — Police on Thursday arrested a maternal uncle of a teenage girl for allegedly attempting to rape her in Reasi district, officials said. A man from Mahore tehsil filed a complaint with the police that his daughter went to a jungle to fetch green fodder for cattle along with her maternal uncle, they said. […]
SRINAGAR — Amid “strong apprehension” of the third COVID wave in India, the Chief Justice of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh Pankaj Mithal has ordered restriction of people other than staff and lawyers into High Court and District Court buildings. “keeping In view the rising trend of COVID Infection cases in Jammu […]