NEW DELHI — Voicing concern over the recent killing of civilians, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said “everyone is feeling unsafe”, and asked the administration to give the people a sense of security cutting across religions. Pointing out that attacks in the Union Territory this year had claimed the lives […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid Srinagar Wednesday said that the mandatory congregational prayers will be offered at historic Jamia Masjid on coming Friday. According to a statement, Anjuman informed that while all mosques, shrines, imambaras including Dargah Hazratbal have opened for prayers in view of the ongoing holy month of Rabi-ul-Awwal and diminishing graph […]
SRINAGAR — A Srinagar-based photojournalist was detained in a mid-night raid from his residence in Dalgate area of the city last night. Mukhtar Zahoor, 27, works as a stringer with the BBC and has been published in Al Jazeera, The Caravan, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal. As per his family, last night at around 12:30am, he […]
SRINAGAR — The employees who had left the Valley feeling unsafe after a Sikh school principal and Kashmiri Hindu teacher were killed last week by militants, said the administration was being “insensitive.” Jammu and Kashmir administration is calling workers back on duty and if they do not show up action will be taken as per […]
SRINAGAR — Exposing the underbelly of Jammu and Kashmir on economic indices, the newly created Union Territory has registered the highest unemployment rate of 21.6 percent among all states, UTs in India. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) figures, J&K has a 21.6 percent unemployment rate, which is the worst among states/Union […]
SRINAGAR — As many as 300 students from Jammu and Kashmir, who have been selected to attend various higher education courses at the Mewar University in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, were given a warm send-off by the Indian Army at a ceremony held at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar on Tuesday. Lt Gen D.P. […]
SRINAGAR — Maintaining that the preparations for class 10 and 12 exams were complete, Director Education Tassaduq Hussain has said that the exams for the two classes would be held in succession in the upcoming month of November. The Director Education told GNS that they are ready for exams as the disinfection activities including sanitation, […]
PULWAMA — As a part of public outreach program, Police in Pulwama facilitated two police-public interaction meetings (PCPG) at PS Rajpora and PS Litter. The meetings were held while following social distancing norms and other protocols. In PS Rajpora, the meeting was chaired by DySP Hqrs Shri Mohd Shafi-JKPS accompanied by SHO PS Rajpora and […]
SRINAGAR — While flu vaccine is vitally important this year in view of ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday said high cost is keeping the vaccine out of reach for poor. “One flu vaccine costs between Rs 1850 to Rs 1975,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. “The […]
SRINAGAR — The security forces in Kashmir Valley are tracking six militants, some of whom were caught on a CCTV camera, and their Pakistani handler, for the spate of minority killings in Srinagar last week, ThePrint has learnt. Sources in the defence and security establishment said the identity of these Militants has been ascertained and […]