SRINAGAR – Renowned Social Activist and Executive Member South Asian Center for Peace Democracy and Development (SACPDD) Dr Rizwan Rumi has urged Government of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory to immediately stop the entry of tourists, labourers and beggars from other states from entering the valley to contain the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases. The […]
JAMMU – For Shabnum (name changed), like hundreds of poor girls, the Jammu and Kashmir government’s State Marriage Assistance Scheme (SMAS) has come as a saviour, providing enormous relief during marriage arrangements. Shabnum, 25, from a remote hamlet of southern Shopian district of Kashmir valley was married in 2019 after her parents arranged a good […]
Srinagar – Hurriyat Conference (M) on Monday expressed concern about the health reports of Kashmiri political detainees in jails across India as COVID-19 pandemic rages to create havoc. According to a statement, Hurriyat (M) said that as per family sources of prisoners, lack of even basic amenities inside the jails has led to serious health […]
‘Only 2-week wait for jab after recovery’ SRINAGAR – Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday said people who have recovered from Covid-19 infection should get the vaccine. “If you already had the virus and recovered, you still need to get vaccinated,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement. “Those […]
SRINAGAR – Nine more COVID-19 patients died on Monday in Kashmir, taking the total number of Coronavirus deaths in Jammu and Kashmir to 2,156. An official told that nine persons who died include 70-year-old male from Mehjoor Nagar, 50-year-old woman from Qamarwari, 59-year-old male from Braen area of district Srinagar, 75-year-old man from D.H pora […]
SRINAGAR – The district administration Srinagar has established a COVID-19 center for emergency in Srinagar in wake of the spike in the number of positive cases. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Muhammad Aijaz Asad told that a COVID-19 center for emergency has been set up at Indoor Stadium. Meanwhile, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Srinagar, Syed Muhammad […]
SRINAGAR – The University of Kashmir has postponed all its offline PG and UG examinations till May 2, 2021 in view of the prevailing COVID-19 situation even as it decided that the main campus shall continue to remain closed upto and including Wednesday (April 28, 2021). The decisions to this effect were taken after detailed […]
SRINAGAR – At a time when the surge in Covid-19 cases has shaken every sphere of life, exams being postponed, schools and colleges being shut and Corona Curfew started being enforced, the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) has decided to go ahead with the exams much to the discomfiture of students whose repeated appeals to […]
SRINAGAR – Amid Covid upsurge hundreds of students of UG 5th semester batch 2017/2018 have been perturbed as Kashmir University keeps their Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) paper scheduled tomorrow in offline mode. The university authorities however have earlier postponed the SEC paper of backlog batch-2016 which was scheduled on 24th April. News Agency Kashmir Dot […]
SRINAGAR – Anantnag police on Sunday arrested a man identified as Vikar Dar, a resident of Batengoo village in Anantnag district in South Kashmir and seized fake Indian currency notes amounting over Rs. 11,000 from his procession. News Agency Kashmir News Trust reported that the arrest and recovery of fake currency in the denomination of […]