SRINAGAR — With omicron appearing to spread much faster than previous strains of the virus, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday called for vaccinating children against Covid-19. “Amid Omicron variant threat Covid vaccination for children becomes crucial,” said DAK President and Influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. “Up until now, Covid-19 has caused mild symptoms […]
BUDGAM — Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested an Active militant of Lashkar-i-Toiba outfit in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. A senior police officer said that a joint team of Police and army’s 02 RR, 62RR apprehended a Active militant at Pushkar. He identified the arrested militant as Hamid Nath resident of Peth Zanigam who […]
PULWAMA — Police have seized 45 bags of rice belonging to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) being allegedly ferried illicitly in a grass-laden load carrier in this south Kashmir district late last night, officials said on Saturday. A senior police officer told GNS that a police team stopped a load carrier— Tata Mobile (JK05D-0445) […]
BANDIPORA — The administration in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday closed Bandipora-Gurez and Dawar-Tulail roads till further orders in wake of the fresh weather advisory. An order issued by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Gurez reads, “In view of the weather advisory issued by the meteorological department regarding snowfall in the intervening night of 4 and […]
SRINAGAR — As Kashmir Valley braces up for first snowfall of the season, night temperatures rose across amid cloud cover on Saturday. “Snowfall is most likely to commence from late night of December 4th, increasing gradually in intensity and spatial distribution with peak on December 5th,” an official of the meteorological department here said. He […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar Friday protested against the authorities’ decision of continuously barring Muslims from performing important religious duty of offering Friday prayers at Jama Masjid Srinagar. Anjuman in a statement said that once again today the men, women and elderly people who came from various parts of the Valley were deprived […]
JAMMU — Additional Director General of Police for Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh Friday said that starlink satellite train was seen over sky in areas of Jammu which people mistook as mysterious light of an aerial object and there was no need to panic. ADG of Police, Mukesh Singh said that starlink train of satellites have […]
SRINAGAR — Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights today made public the “communication to India on multiple alleged acts of intimidation of journalists.” The communication was in context to the harrassment of 2 Kashmir based journalists Qazi Shibli and Aakash Hassan and an Indian province Bihar’s journalist Chandrabhushan Tiwari. “On 1 October […]
JAMMU — Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday said that PDP sought votes from people of Jammu and Kashmir to keep BJP away but later the same party entered into an alliance with the BJP in 2018 and the results are well before the masses. He said perhaps J-K is the only place that […]
SRINAGAR — Government on Friday ordered that there will be online interaction of teaching faculty with students through “whatsapp group or Google-meet etc” at least once in a week during the ensuing winter vacations in Kashmir Valley and winter zone of Jammu division. According to a formal order issued by the Principal Secretary School Education […]