A year ago, when the IAS topper-turned-politician Shah Faesal launched his J&K Peoples Movement in Srinagar, National Conference dismissed it as PDP redux 20 years later. One of the NC leaders said: “Exactly 20 years back in 1999 a party was founded to counter National Conference after it tabled the autonomy report in the assembly […]
Srinagar, May 01 (KNS): Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Srinagar Dr Haseeb Mughal on Friday appealed people of rural areas of the district to play their role as a civilized and responsible citizen of the society and stay away from organizing any public assembly in wake of Covid-19 pandemic. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), […]
12 districts classified as orange zones, 4 as green zones Srinagar, May 01 : Government of India on Friday declared four districts in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir as Red Zones in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19. As per the order four districts which have been declared as Red Zones include […]
The number of reported coronavirus cases in India rose 12 percent over the past two days to 33,610, data from the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) published last evening showed. This is a slightly faster rate of increase compared to the previous 48 hours, when the reported case count rose 11 percent to […]
London: Labour Party’s Keir Starmer, UK’s newly-elected Leader of the Opposition, on Thursday said Kashmir is a bilateral issue for India and Pakistan to resolve peacefully and stressed that such divisive issues from the subcontinent should not be allowed to divide communities in Britain. In an attempt to reach out to the Indian diaspora and […]
Pune-based Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) has developed a microwave steriliser ‘Atulya’ that can disintegrate the novel coronavirus, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday. “The virus gets disintegrated by differential heating (of Atulya) in the range of 56 degrees to 60 degrees Celsius,” the ministry said in a release. The DIAT is a deemed […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that he had “no information” about the health of Kim Jong Un, amid unconfirmed reports that the North Korean leader is unwell. Guterres was responding to a question on whether any UN official had spoken to any North Korean official about the health and whereabouts of Kim. […]
In this hour of direst need, all, barring one, shrank when a sacrifice was sought. As Kashmiri students from different countries, mostly Bangladesh, started returning to Srinagar in mid-March following the coronavirus outbreak, the government approached different hotels in Srinagar, asking them to house them for the mandatory 14-day quarantine. As expected, the owners refused, […]
Jammu, April 30 (GNS): Three persons including a woman were killed in a road mishap at Nagrota area of Jammu on Thursday. Reports reaching GNS said that today afternoon one Motorcycle (JK 02BV 5895) was on way towards Ban Toll Plaza Nagrota to Jammu and one Mahindra Tata mobile (JK02BR 0887) in opposite wrong […]
Apple growers of Kashmir are facing very tough situation as the pandemic lockdown has dashed all their hopes to get their produce out of Kashmir valley. The coronavirus lockdown has broken the supply chain as most of the apple growers in Kashmir have kept their produce in the cold storage. They were expecting to sell […]