SRINAGAR — The 270-km Jammu—Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic due to shooting stones at many places an highway and snowfall in Qazigund, traffic officials said. “Jammu srinagar national highway closed for vehicular movement due to fresh snowfall in Qazigund area, rain and shooting stones at Mehar, Cafeteria road, Panthal on Banihal-Ramban patch” a […]
SRINAGAR — Today is the 30th Jummah Mubarak and the last ten days of the holy month of Mehraj-Ul-Alam, the Ascension of the Prophet (SAW) are going on, still the authorities while continuing with their dictatorial attitude did not allow the Muslims of Kashmir to perform important duties like Friday prayers at the largest place […]
SRINAGAR — SNTPL private internet service provider has left hundreds of subscribers disappointed across Srinagar as the company hasn’t been able to restore the internet services even after three days of snowfall. Adil Hussain, an SNTPL customer since past two years, said that indeed the snowfall created havoc on February 23 across Kashmir including Srinagar […]
JAMMU — The ceasefire agreement between armies of India and Pakistan on Line of Control (LoC) has completed a year on Friday. In the past year, there hasn’t been a report of even a single incident of ceasefire violation. The agreement was finalized between armies of both the neighboring nations on 25 February 2021 via […]
SRINAGAR — As Russia’s military operation continues in Ukraine, Kashmiri students stranded in the country and their families in Kashmir are pleading with the government to bring their wards back home safely. A Kashmiri student stranded in Ukraine said that there is uncertainty everywhere in the country since Russia started attacking and nobody knows what […]
SRINAGAR — As many 1442 persons are in jails of Jammu & Kashmir for their involvement in drug-related crimes, official data shows. The official data reveals that as on December 31, 2021, out of 4532 undertrails lodged in jails of Jammu & Kashmir, 1442 are involved in drug-related crimes. Of them 1421 are males and […]
SRINAGAR — In a remarkable move, the Administrative Council (AC), which met under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, approved the remission of fifty percent (50%) stamp duty for all first time buyers of real estate in the housing sector for a period of two years. Farooq Khan and Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisors to […]
JAMMU — Secretary, Tribal Affairs Deptt, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary reviewed the progress on procurement of trucks and other allied facilities for facilitation of biannual Transhumant migration of tribal population in various areas of Jammu and Kashmir. On the directions of Lieutenant Governor Sh Manoj Sinha the department has initiated various steps for specific plans […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir Traders Alliance has urged the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to use its good offices in foreign counties for the safe return of students from J&K who are stranded in Ukraine. In a statement, President KTA, Aijaz Shahdhar said that the war in Ukraine has put in depression hundreds of families in […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has taken numerous citizen centric measures to improve service delivery, and towards good governance to bring more transparency and accountability in the existing governance system. And one among these administrative reforms is digitization of land records with one component ‘Apki Zameen Apki Nigrani’ under which land holders can […]