Ensure all basic amenities to people on Muharram Days: NC

Ensure all basic amenities to people on Muharram Days: NC

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday impressed upon the Jammu and Kashmir administration to ensure all facilities to people on the forthcoming Muharram Observance Days. Party’s Members of Parliament Muhammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi urged the administration to ensure all basic civic amenities to people in view of the forthcoming auspicious month of […]

Dhani Uri residents stage protest against ‘blasphemous’ remarks

Dhani Uri residents stage protest against ‘blasphemous’ remarks

Locals of Dhani, Choolan, and Gingal, Uri town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday held a peaceful protest march against the ‘blasphemous’ remarks against Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and demanded exemplary punishment to the accused. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), hundreds of locals started march towards National Highway Mohoura. The protesters while on way […]

Aijaz Ahmed Khan seeks comprehensive regularization policy for contractual employees of MGNREGA & IWMP in J&K

Aijaz Ahmed Khan seeks comprehensive regularization policy for contractual employees of MGNREGA & IWMP in J&K

Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Aijaz Ahmed Khan has appealed to Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to formulate comprehensive regularization policy for the contractual employees working in two wings of Rural Development Department (RDD). In a statement to the KNS,, Aijaz Ahmed Khan said that these contractual employees are the […]

20-yr-old drowns in Pulwama extracting sand

20-yr-old drowns in Pulwama extracting sand

A laborer by profession drowned in river Jehlum near Kernabel Kakapora area of south Kashmir Pulwama on Wednesday, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS).   The 20-year-old man identified as Yaseen Ahmad Sheikh, son of Bashir Ahmad Sheikh, was extracting sand when he drowned near Sombura bridge. “Searches are underway to trace […]

4 persons arrested with grenades, bullets in south Kashmir

4 persons arrested with grenades, bullets in south Kashmir

The government forces recovered four grenades and a hundred rounds of AK-47 from four persons arrested in Shopian district of South Kashmir, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). An unnamed police officer told the agency that the police and government forces arrested four persons including Imitiyaz Ahmad Dar of Ratnipora, Parvaiz Ahmad […]

ECONOMIC DEPRESSION

ECONOMIC DEPRESSION

Kashmir is reeling under economic depression as already, most of the business establishments have bad loans and some have shut their business. According to the media reports, it is now 13th running month that Kashmir valley is without any normal business as now the lockdown of Covid-19 is going on from the past five months. Business […]

54% deficient rainfall in J&K this summer, says Met Dept

54% deficient rainfall in J&K this summer, says Met Dept

Day after breaking the 39-year-old record, the maximum temperature in the summer capital dropped by a few notches today due to early morning rainfall. However, the day remained sunny later and the heat wave is expected to continue in the Valley. The Meteorological Department said Jammu and Kashmir received 54 per cent deficient rainfall this […]

Raju reviews progress on languishing development projects

Raju reviews progress on languishing development projects

SRINAGAR, AUGUST 18: Secretary, Jal Shakti Department, M. Raju today chaired a meeting to review the progress on various languishing projects of Jal Shakti department being funded by J&K Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation. Secretary asked all the concerned HODs as well as Nodal officers to complete the projects in a time bound besides initiating the […]