SRINAGAR — Weatherman on Tuesday forecast “light to moderate thunderstorm with rain” for next few days at scattered places in Jammu and Kashmir. “Brief spell of light to moderate thunderstorm with rain will occur at scattered places of Kashmir like Gulmarg, Kupwara, Sopore, Baramulla, Srinagar and scattered places of Jammu and South Kashmir today,” Director […]
SRINAGAR — A man in Kashmir Valley has been jailed for “promoting enmity” after he told the J&K Lieutenant Governor’s advisor that he has no expectations from officers who are not locals, reportedly displeasing the Ganderbal deputy commissioner who is from Uttar Pradesh. Fifty-year-old Sajad Rashid Sofi of Wani Mohalla at Safapora in Ganderbal has […]
Locals heave sigh of relief BUDGAM — Eleven days after mauling a 4-year-old girl to death, the Leopard was caught alive by Wildlife authorities on Tuesday at DC office complex in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. An official told that the Leopard was spotted near nursery of DC office, and the searches were intensified accordingly in […]
SRINAGAR — Riyaz Ahmad was standing outside his kirana shop in north Kashmir’s Sopore town on Saturday, 12 June, when a group of J&K policemen attempted to whisk away his salesman, Manzoor Ahmad, for violating the COVID-19 lockdown rules. Despite the lockdown, Riyaz had opened his shop to handle a customer. “He (Manzoor) kept asking […]
PULWAMA — A 23-year-old youth has gone missing from his home in Karimabad area in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Suhail Ahmad Bhat son of Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat, as per his family members, went missing on June 8, and since then his whereabouts are unknown despite their efforts to locate him. “He was with us on […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Sunday announced additional relaxations in Covid-19 restrictions in eight districts of Union Territory. The additional relaxations in Covid-19 measures have been announced in Poonch, Reasi, Ramban and Doda districts in Jammu division and Shopian, Kulgam, Ganderbal, and Bandipora districts in Kashmir division. According to an order […]
Say surprise inspection drive to intensify across city, violators to be dealt with sternly SRINAGAR — A private hospital on Sunday was imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 by District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Srinagar after the hospital was found violating the Covid-19 SoPs and protocols during a surprise visit. An official told that, on […]
SRINAGAR — The US authorities and Google have been approached by the Jammu and Kashmir Police to share email contents exchanged by Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, a close aide of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, with Pakistan-based secessionist leaders and militants, a charge sheet filed by the union territory police has said. The charge sheet said there is […]
SRINAGAR — The army is facing stiff opposition to its decision to charge property tax from residents living in the vicinity of its 15 Corps headquarters in Srinagar and its objection to the construction of Kashmir’s maiden All India Institute of Medical Sciences in adjoining Pulwama district. The AIIMS campus is coming up close to […]
KULGAM — A daily wager employee of Power Development Department (PDD), who was electrocuted on Saturday afternoon in Chawalgam area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam, succumbed to his injuries at SMHS Srinagar on Sunday, an official said. An official told that a PDD daily wager Sartaj Ahmad Sheikh, son of Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sheikh of Hanand, Chawalgam […]