SRINAGAR, JUNE 15: Director Horticulture, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat, today visited Centre of Excellence being established at Zawoora Srinagar and inspected the varietal profile of various fruit crops planted at the project site. On the occasion, directions were passed on to the committee constituted recently to identify the varietal profile of fruit crops planted, instructing to […]
SRINAGAR: Mystery shrouds the death of an 18-year-old boy who was admitted to SMHS hospital for head injuries, but eventually turned out to be COVID 19 positive. Hailing from Monabal village in Langate, the teenager was admitted to SMHS hospital for severe trauma on May 12. During the investigation, doctors found that he was suffering from […]
Tangmarg, June 15 (KNS): Casual labours of Gulmarg development authority on Monday held a protest demonstration against their pending wages. According to reports a Representation from casual labourers and daily wagers of Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA) held a protest demonstration and were demanding pending wages and regularization Casual labourers and daily wagers said they are […]
SRINAGAR: A day after a 70-year-old man from Budgam district died at a hospital here, his swab sample returned positive for the covid-19 on Monday. The death of the septuagenarian from Chadoora area of the central Kashmir district has taken the fatality count due to the pathogen in J&K to 62. “The patient with sepsis […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) leader and former minister Mohammad Ashraf Mir on Monday urged the J&K government to go for a review of proposed media policy in consultation with representatives of the media fraternity. In a statement issued here, Mir said the policy related to media in J&K seems to have been […]
The Congress believes that the claims about significant disengagement on the border by Chinese troops are untrue and feels the government should not create a false complacency that could further embolden the aggressor. Senior Congress leaders on Sunday said they didn’t want to say anything that could aggravate the situation, but one of them had […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday dismissed the speculations of a lockdown in the national capital, saying the government has no such plans. Amid the rising number of Coronavirus cases in Delhi in last 10 days, speculations were rife that the government may impose another lockdown to bring the situation under control. Taking to […]
New Delhi’s hopes for an early resolution to the crisis in Ladakh through diplomatic channels, as happened during the earlier crises, have been hampered by lack of any immediate leverage with Beijing. Moreover, the creation of Ladakh as a Union Territory, after the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir, is being used […]
Srinagar: Police on Monday afternoon recovered an unidentified body of a man from Ashmuqam area of Pahalgam in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. A local news agency— Kashmir News Observer (KNO) quoted a police official as saying that locals informed the police about the body which was found inside a Nallah near an open paddy field […]
Srinagar: With no tourist influx to Kashmir for almost a year now, the Jammu and Kashmir tourism department is finding newer ways to justify its existence. Sample this: The department says it is planning about programmes it may conduct once tourists head back to Kashmir. Director J&K tourism department Kashmir, Nisar Ahmad Wani says they are […]