One more militant has been killed in an ongoing encounter in Ranbirgarh area on the outskirts of Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Saturday, taking toll to two. Inspector General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar told news agency GNS that one more militant has been killed in the ongoing encounter. However, the identity of the militants […]
It was a rare and dark moment in the life of Iltija Mufti, daughter of the PDP president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, to witness the taking away of her mother on August 5 last year by the police, hours before the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was scrapped and the state came […]
The Union health ministry’s technical wing is formulating guidelines to help manage long-term complications that some people have reported after recovering from severe Covid-19 illness, officials aware of the matter said. “The ministry is working on guidelines for discharged patients who may develop other complications post-recovery at home. It has been reported that a section […]
Rigorous implementation of pandemic lessons, systematic containment, and proper planning and procurement to plug the gaps in health infrastructure are key, the Centre has told nine states that are currently facing a surge in novel coronavirus infections. At a high-level review meeting that went on for three hours over a video link on Friday, the Centre emphasised six main […]
A gunfight has broken out between militants and security forces in Ramalgand Outskirts Of Srinagar on Saturday morning. An official told news agency—kashmir news observer (KNO), that “a Joint team of security forces including Army’s, Special Operations Group (SOG) and CRPF launched a search operation after specific inputs about presence of militants in the area. […]
Senior Congress leader and Former Minister of J&K Ghulam Nabi Azad demanded restoration of statehood followed by assembly elections to J&K during his meeting with Prime Minister Narinder Modi yesterday evening . In an exclusive chat with KNS from Delhi, Azad said that he called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi exclusively for […]
ANANTNAG, JULY 24: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Anantnag, K K Sidha today chaired a meeting of officers to review Eid-ul-Adha arrangements. The meeting discussed threadbare rate structure and quality parameters of sacrificial animals and decided that 16 sale centers for sheep and goats at all block headquarters will be available to the people. The DC directed that […]
JAMMU, JULY 24: The Government on Thursday informed that 353 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 129 from Jammu division and 224 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 16782. Also 14 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 01 from Jammu […]
Government of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday ordered disbursement of salary in advance for the month of July to the employees of UT in wake of Eid-ul-Adha. An order issued by Arun Kumar Mehta, IAS, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department reads, “It is hereby ordered that salary bills for the month of July, 2020 shall be […]
SRINAGAR, JULY 24: The State Executive Committee (SEC), headed by Mr. B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary, J&K, met here today and sanctioned an amount of Rs.50 crore under SDRF in favour of Deputy Commissioners of twenty districts of the UT, for further intensifying the COVID containment efforts as well as for meeting any eventuality arising on […]