Zubair Ul Islam SHOPIAN — Shopian Police, in collaboration with the district administration, on Wednesday organized an awareness program on COVID-19 in Shopian district, given the rise of COVID-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir. During the drive, masks were distributed at various locations in town. The distribution drive was headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) […]
SRINAGAR — A Kashmiri girl student from central Kashmir’s Budgam district allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Bangladesh on Tuesday evening following which family has appealed to the Lt Governor to help get her body back home. Reports said that the deceased student was identified as Seema Zehra daughter of Ghulam Mohammad, a resident of […]
SRINAGAR — Expressing concern over the incurring losses, the Kashmiri fruit grows on Wednesday appealed Government of India (GoI) to ban the import of Iranian apples in the Indian markets. Addressing a press conference President of Kashmir Valley Fruit Growers Dealers Association and New Kashmir Fruit Association Bashir Ahmad Bashir said the supply of Iranian […]
KULGAM — A 35-year-old man was found dead in mysterious conditions at Buchroo area in south Kashmir’s Kulgam on Wednesday afternoon, an official said. An official said that the body was spotted at around 12:30 pm this afternoon. “A police team recovered the body and shifted to hospital Kulgam for postmortem,” an official said. The […]
SRINAGAR — Intense cold conditions continued in J&K and Ladakh as Srinagar recorded a low of minus 3.6°C on Wednesday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that the minimum temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, dropped from previous night’s 0.2°C and was 1.5°C below the normal for this time of the year. […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday imposed restrictions on the movement of people in famous Patnitop tourist destination in Udhampur district in the wake of a spike in Covid cases, officials said. An order in this regard was issued by the district disaster management authority (DDMA) and the district magistrate Udhampur. All […]
Junaid Gulzar SHOPIAN — MRM wing of RSS South Convenor Mohd yousuf Mir on Tuesday visited various areas of shopian district including Dachoo & Nagbal where he met with numerous public delegations. In a statement issued here, Mohd Yousuf Mir said that numerous public delegations apprised about their existing issues besides they also expressed satisfaction […]
JAMMU — To analyze the performance of 2021 and prepare the plans and strategies for 2022 for Jammu Zone, a daylong high-level meeting was on Tuesday held at ZPHQ, Jammu. The first session of the meeting was chaired by Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh and second session was chaired by ADGP Jammu Mukesh […]
SRINAGAR — Following the government directives to switch the online mode of teaching in view of rise in COVID-19 cases, some private coaching institutes in Kashmir are forcibly asking the students to pay the hefty amount. The students are being forced to pay the hefty amount in the name of tuition charges that too at […]
SRINAGAR — Parents are staring at a bleak future of their wards preparing for competitive exams, after the government put brakes on the functioning of hundreds of coaching centres across Kashmir Valley. Those who run, manage and operate these coaching centres have vehemently appealed to the government to re-consider its decision. The closure of coaching […]