BARAMULLA — Two persons sustained burn injuries in an Oxygen plant leakage incident at Government Medical College Baramulla on Monday morning, officials said. They told GNS that two technicians identified as Asif Mushtaq Bhat, 25, son of Mohammad Ashraf Bhat resident of Delina Baramulla and Mohammad Saleem Khan, 30, son of Ghulam Nabi Khan resident […]
SRINAGAR — Higher reaches including Gulmarg received fresh snowfall while rains lashed plains in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. The snowfall has led to closure of Bandipora-Gurez as well as Srinagar-Leh roads besides Machil, Keran and Karnah. Mughal road, connecting shopian with Poonch and Rajouri districts as well as Kishtwar-Sinthan road are closed. […]
JAMMU — Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday put to rest all speculations about his possible exit from the party, calling himself a “24 Carat Congressman” and saying he was not upset with the party, but was instead working for unifying and uniting its workers. The former chief minister has been holding public rallies in Jammu and […]
JAMMU — The parents of an eight-year-old nomad girl, who was brutally raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu, are anguished that while their appeal for enhancement of sentence against six people remains unheard, two convicts were released on bail in the Kathua rape and murder case, described by a court as a “devilish […]
KUPWARA — Bodies of both the teenage boys fallen into a storage tank in Dardpora Kralpora in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district have been retrieved a few hours into a joint rescue operation launched by locals, police and army at the site. As reported two boys namely Amir Mohuiddin Khawaja son of Ghulam Mohuiddin Khawaja and […]
KUPWARA — Two teenage boys are feared to have died after falling into a storage tank in Dardpora Kralpora in frontier north Kashmir’s Kupwara district this afternoon. Reports reaching GNS said that two boys namely Amir Mohuiddin Khawaja son of Ghulam Mohuiddin Khawaja and Faheem Iqbal Khawaja son of Mohammad Iqbal Khawaja, residents of Maidan […]
ANANTNAG — Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles Dailgam COB organised a students’ felicitation programme and distributed stationery items among the students. The programme was held at Modern English Medium of School and Learning and 35 students took participate in an event and were provided free stationary items like Pencils Notebooks etc The event was aimed to […]
Currently, weather is generally cloudy in both UTs with No report of snowfall from anywhere. Forecast Jammu: Light to Moderate Rain Very Likely from later tonight and tomorrow (27th) with light to Moderate snowfall over places like Doda-Kistawar, Jawahar Tunnel(Top), Pirpanjal etc. Kashmir: Light to Moderate Snow(2-3 Inches) in plains and Moderate snow(5-6 Inches) over […]
SRINAGAR — The minimum temperature settled below freezing point in Kashmir Valley and Ladakh on Sunday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K recorded a low of minus 1.8°C against last night’s 1.7°C. Kashmir is presently under the grip of 40-day long harshest period of winter, known locally […]
SRINAGAR — Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said booster shots of Covid-19 vaccine are crucial to protect people from the highly transmissible Omicron variant of coronavirus. “Booster doses offer a significant increase in protection against Omicron,” said DAK President and Influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. Quoting a lab study from Oxford University, Dr […]