Jammu & Kashmir

SRINAGAR — At least ten children, aged below 7 years, were tested positive for Covid-19 in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. An official from Sub District Hospital (SDH) Sopore told that today out of ten persons tested positive for Covid-19 through Rapid Antigen Test, seven are minors, aged below seven years. He said […]

SRINAGAR — At least seven persons sustained injuries after a vehicle they were on board met with an accident in Nachiya Tangdhar on Friday afternoon. A police official told GNS that a Tata Sumo bearing registration number JK05B 8353 driven by one Riyaz Ahmad Badana son of Mohd Shafi, a resident of Dragger lost control […]

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Bank has placed a woman employee under suspension for her ”inappropriate” reaction to a social media post on the chief of defence staff’s death, officials said on Friday. The banking attendant was suspended on Thursday, pending disciplinary proceedings against her, the officials said. The woman had reportedly posted an inappropriate […]

BANDIPORA — Militants attacked a police party at Gulshan Chowk in northern district of Bandipora leaving two policemen dead, officials said Friday. They said that militants fired at a police party at Gulshan Chowk, Bandipora in which two policemen sustained bullet injuries, who succumbed on way to the hospital. “Two policemen with bullet injuries died […]

SRINAGAR — The government has repatriated 63 employees of the School Education Department from the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh to Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, the General Administration Department (GAD) in an order issued on Thursday has said that it has replaced the repatriated officers after nearly four years posted in the union territory of […]

SRINAGAR — Noted preacher Haji Tanveer Ahmad Qureshi was killed even as his three colleagues were injured in a tragic accident along Srinagar-Jammu highway on intervening Saturday and Sunday night. A police official told that a car – Alto K10 – bearing registration number JK15 0193 skidded off the road and hit a (road) divider […]

RAJOURI — A saw mill located near Sunderbani main town was damaged in a massive blaze that broke out in the intervening night of Thursday-Friday in the locality. Officials told the that fire broke out in the intervening night of Thursday and Friday in which a saw mill caught fire. As soon as the locals […]

KULGAM — The residents of Kilam village in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district Friday staged a protest against the Power Development Department (PDD) for failing to repair two electric transformers of the village despite the passage of over three weeks. The protesters, mostly women assembled at Mirbazar-Phaloo road at Kilam and chanted slogans against the Power […]

POONCH — Mughal road, connecting Shopian and Poonch-Rajouri districts, on Friday reopened for traffic after remaining closed since December 5. DTI Mughal road, Qasim Ahmed told GNS the road reopened for all types of traffic. The thoroughfare was closed on Sunday in view of slippery road conditions amid heavy snowfall. — (GNS)