Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today stressed on active participation for achieving the goal of good governance and stressed upon the responsive and proactive administration so that the fruits of development reach the last man. The Lieutenant Governor stated this during his visit to district Anantnag were he interacted with several delegations and Public Representatives […]
A 32 year old woman was injured in a cross border shelling in Karnah sector of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS) a 32 year old women identified as Parveena Begum wife of fareed Ahmad injured on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday in Hajitra village of Karnah after armies […]
Strict curbs were imposed in Kashmir Valley on Thursday after huge surge in Covid-19 caseloads were reported from couple of weeks with subsequent deaths. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), authorities imposed strict restriction in Srinagar and other parts of Valley, a day after the UT Government announced another phase of lockdown across the Valley […]
While the promising results showed by experimental Covid-19 vaccines being developed by University of Oxford and Moderna Inc in early human testing have grabbed the spotlight in the past week, raising hopes of early availability in the market, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said their first use cannot be expected until early 2021. “Several vaccines are now in Phase […]
New Delhi: The 11 months of lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir has not only resulted in an “across-the-board violation of human rights”, it also led to the “denial of the right to bail and fair and speedy trial, coupled with misuse of draconian legislation, such as the Public Safety Act (PSA) and the Unlawful Activities Prevention […]
Srinagar: The Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday released a report in which it said that the developments in the union territory after the scrapping of Article 370 last August have “highlighted a tri-lateralisation of the dispute over Kashmir between India, Pakistan and China” and added a “new edge to the strategic China-Pakistan nexus against […]
BEIJING: China said on Tuesday it would take unspecified necessary measures” after the US government imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. The sanctions add to US pressure on Beijing over Xinjiang, where the ruling Communist Party is accused of mass detentions, forced […]
ISLAMABAD: Former pacer Shoaib Akhtar fears that international cricket could be reduced to just a couple of World Cups and T20 leagues if the International Cricket Council (ICC) does not intervene. “I can tell you one thing, if you don’t go with justice for the next two years, there will be only two World Cups […]
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Jammu and Kashmir, G C Murmu Thursday announced the launch of a major Macadamisation Program for roads across the union territory. The announcement comes in the backdrop of grievances relating to poor condition of roads and the problems connected thereto, presented before the Lieutenant Governor during his tours as a part of […]
Srinagar: Amid spike in COVID cases, the government on Thursday sanctioned Rs 15 Crore under State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for Sher Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, Government Medical Colleges (GMC) Srinagar and Jammu. The decision to sanction Rs five Crore each to the three health institutions was taken in a State Executive […]