A residential house and some shops were damaged on Thursday after a landslide occurred in Noorabad area of Damhal Hanjipora in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An official said that landslide took place at Shalmachi Yarikhah in Noorabad in which almost 3-5 shops belonging to Fayaz Ahmad Hajam and Abdul Majeed Hajam got damaged. “A house […]
An elderly man died after getting hit by a moving train along the Budgam-Srinagar railway section this morning, officials said. They said that a man, presumably in his fifties, was hit by train number 04614. The injured person was immediately evacuated from the spot to the hospital, where he succumbed shortly after, they further said. […]
Forests are playing an important role in the climate change scenario and for this purpose the government of Jammu and Kashmir is trying to do forest management with the latest technology available. Recently LG Manoj Sinha inaugurated a Forest Resource Management center in Jammu and asked the officials to use the technology in forest […]
New Delhi: Noting that he belongs to a family of bureaucrats and that the political opportunity as a union minister came as a bolt from the blue in 2019, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that his father Dr K Subrahmanyam was removed as Secretary, Defence Production, by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi […]
MELBOURNE: Australia opener David Warner has been ruled out of the rest of the India Test series after suffering a concussion and a fracture in his elbow in the second match in New Delhi, the team said on Tuesday. Warner is the latest of the Australian squad to head home from the subcontinent, with paceman […]
COLOMBO: Bankrupt Sri Lanka is set to postpone local elections due next month, according to a top official, prompting opposition protests on Tuesday that forced parliament to be adjourned. The March 9 vote was meant to be a key test of support for President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office in July after months of protests […]
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered transfer and posting of 50 senior police officers in the Union Territory. According to an order, Swarn Singh Kotwal, SSP, Security, Jammu, is transferred and posted as Commandant, SDRF 15 Bn. Srinagar, against an available vacancy. The order states Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Commandant, IR-13TM Bn is transferred […]
Inspects ongoing upgradation works, Registration Camp for Disabled persons at UPHC Nishat SRINAGAR FEBRUARY 22:- Continuing the endeavour to bring the Administration to the doorsteps of the people to address their issues, the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad Wednesday undertook a visit to Darbagh area in Harwan Block of the District, to have […]
The government on Wednesday announced three days as “dry days” for repairing “critical” spots along Jammu-Srinagar highway and as such there will be no traffic on these three days on the thoroughfare. “Dry Days announced by Government for Feb 24, Mar 03 & Mar 10 for repair & maintenance of critical spots on NH-44,” reads […]
JAMMU, Feb 22: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday charged that the imposition of property tax in Jammu and Kashmir was part of the BJP’s larger agenda of impoverishing the people of the union territory. The real aim is to make people of Jammu and Kashmir so poor that they don’t demand […]