Shopian: The District Hospital Shopian administration found itself in an embarrassing spot while conducting a dry run for COVID19 vaccination rollout. The flex banners put up by the hospital staff announcing the event carried glaring spell errors. The words like “vaccination” and “district” were misspelled as “vacinaion” and “dictrict”. Although the word “district” was corrected […]
Kupwara: A thief was caught red-handed while stealing goods from a provisional store at Ganipora market in Kupwara district of North Kashmir late last night, officials said on Monday. Wearing a Camo jacket, the thief was caught by locals and police around midnight, concerned Station House Officer Zahoor Ahmad to GNS. A police official identified […]
Bandipora: A Private School teacher died of a sudden cardiac arrest on Monday morning in Ajas area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Reports reaching news agency Kashmir Dot Com said that a teacher identified as Mohammad Ramzan Rather son of late Aarif Rather, resident of Sheikh Mohalla Ajas, suffered a massive cardiac arrest on Monday […]
Srinagar: Year 2020 has seen sharp decrease in militancy related incidents and civilian casualties in J&K, a Ministry of Home Affairs’ report has revealed. As per the report title ‘Major activities of MHA during 2020 – A summary of important developments during the year’ the number of militancy incidents in 2020 “decreased by 63.93 percent […]
Srinagar: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Sunday has been closed due to the sudden damage of a bridge on the road. No vehicular movement will be allowed on the highway from Jammu towards Srinagar and vice versa, Traffic Police said. The bridge at Kela Morh in Ramban has suffered sudden damage. There is no optional […]
Srinagar: As heavy snowfall in Kashmir snapped road and air links, the Union Territory administration has come under severe criticism for its failure to clear snow from roads, which has brought life to a standstill in the valley. Many areas in the hinterlands remain cut off even three days after it stopped snowing. Record snowfall […]
Srinagar: National Conference MP Hasnain Masoodi on Sunday said the recently announced Rs 28,400 crore new industrial developmental scheme (IDS) would not fetch any result without taking into account the political aspirations of people of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The MP from south Kashmir’s Anantnag said the trade bodies must realise that peace and […]
Srinagar: As a white winter and COVID-19 pandemic keep the people homebound, two sisters from Kashmir—one a doctor and the other a lawyer by education—have warmed hearts with their tribute in snow to the corona warriors. A steady stream of visitors was seen at the lawn of their residence at Athwajan in the city where […]
Jammu: Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked mortar shelling and firing on forward posts and villages in different sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in Rajouri, Poonch and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. However, there was no immediate report of any damage […]
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said Jammu and Kashmir”s first homoeopathic medical college has been proposed in Kathua and its establishment is being pursued with the Union Ministry of AYUSH. A public demand for homoeopathic college had been pending for several decades but no previous government or public representative took a serious […]