Wular, Dal, Nigeen, Sanasar, Manasbal lakes and Purmandal to be declared as Protected Wetlands

Wular, Dal, Nigeen, Sanasar, Manasbal lakes and Purmandal to be declared as Protected Wetlands

Chief Secretary chairs maiden meeting of J&K Wetland Authority JAMMU, MARCH 31: The Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam today chaired the maiden meeting of Jammu and Kashmir Wetland Authority to chalk out strategy for conservation and management of wetlands. Administrative Secretaries of Departments of Revenue, Rural Development, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture Production and […]

Higher secondary Budgam closed after teacher tests positive

Higher secondary Budgam closed after teacher tests positive

By: Musaib Iqbal MK Srinagar In the growing spike of covid-19 cases, district authorities of Budgam have decided to close government girls higher secondary school Budgam on Wednesday as one of the teachers tested positive to the infection. Authorities of Budgam were reported by the news agencies saying that this educational institution will remain closed […]

Gold declines by Rs 49; silver tumbles Rs 331

Gold declines by Rs 49; silver tumbles Rs 331

New Delhi: Gold prices declined by Rs 49 to Rs 43,925 per 10 gram in the national capital on Wednesday reflecting overnight selling in global precious metal prices, according to HDFC Securities. The precious metal had closed at Rs 43,974 per 10 gram in the previous trade. Silver also registered a fall of Rs 331 […]

COVID-19 situation going from bad to worse: Centre

COVID-19 situation going from bad to worse: Centre

New Delhi: The Union health ministry on Tuesday said the situation of Novel Coronavirus in India is going from “bad to worse” over the last few weeks and the whole nation is potentially at risk. “Trends show the virus is still very active… just when we think we can control it, it sparks back… We […]

02 LeT militant associates arrested in Budgam

02 LeT militant associates arrested in Budgam

Srinagar: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested two Lashker-e-Toiba Militant associates in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a statement to GNS, the police said that Budgam Police along with 53 RR and 43 Bn CRPF arrested two militant associates of outfit Lashker-e-Taiba involved in providing shelter, logistics and other support to the militants in […]

Three women polio workers shot dead in Afghanistan

Three women polio workers shot dead in Afghanistan

Gunmen killed three Afghan women involved in a nationwide polio immunisation programme on Tuesday, officials said, a day after authorities launched a new drive against the crippling disease. The three women were killed in two separate attacks in the restive eastern city of Jalalabad, officials said. “They were all on duty going from house to […]

Ton-up Brathwaite, Cornwall frustrate Sri Lanka in final Test

Ton-up Brathwaite, Cornwall frustrate Sri Lanka in final Test

NORTH SOUND: Kraigg Brathwaite completed a ninth Test century and was eventually last out for 126 on the stroke of lunch as the West Indies totalled 354 in their first innings on day two of the second and final Test against Sri Lanka in Antigua on Tuesday. Suranga Lakmal led the visitors’ effort with figures […]

India records 53,480 new COVID-19 cases, 354 deaths

India records 53,480 new COVID-19 cases, 354 deaths

New Delhi: As many as 53,480 fresh infections pushed India’s COVID-19 tally to 1,21,49,335, while 354 new fatalities, the highest single-day spike so far this year, took the death toll to 1,62,468, according to Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The country had recorded 355 deaths on December 17. The active caseload increased to […]

Adventure tourism

Adventure tourism

In the past two decades there have been efforts though slow to bring Jammu and Kashmir on the adventure tourism map. But in the recent past the JK administration has tried to clear the bottlenecks for eco tourism and adventure tourism to flourish especially in all seasons. Adventure tourism could only pick in Gulmarg slopes […]