Water paucity forces women to protest outside DC office Shopian

Water paucity forces women to protest outside DC office Shopian

Several women on Tuesday stage a protest demonstration outside Deputy Commissioner’s office Shopian against paucity of drinking water supply in the area. According to reports reached to Kashmir News Service (KNS), large number of women with empty vessels blocked the road outside District Development Office in south Kashmir’s Shopian district for not getting adequate supply […]

26 infected SKIMS staff members undergoing treatment, situation inside hospital grim, junior doctors, paramedics scared

26 infected SKIMS staff members undergoing treatment, situation inside hospital grim, junior doctors, paramedics scared

Staff members of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura who tested Covid-19 positive earlier, have been formally admitted and are undergoing treatment under Covid-19 protocol, official said. He added at least 26 employees from SKIMS, Soura including staff nurses, doctors driver and some laboratory technicians have tested Covid-19 positive couple of days ago and […]

NCERT adds scrapping of Article 370 to Class 12 textbook chapter, drops portion on separatist politics in JK

NCERT adds scrapping of Article 370 to Class 12 textbook chapter, drops portion on separatist politics in JK

The NCERT has revised a chapter in its Class 12 political science textbook to drop a paragraph on separatist politics in Jammu and Kashmir and to add a brief mention of the scrapping of its special status last year. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revised the chapter in the textbook […]

Assault on doctors at SMHS Hospital: MFA demands adequate security at Covid hospitals

Assault on doctors at SMHS Hospital: MFA demands adequate security at Covid hospitals

Srinagar: The Medical Faculty Association (MFA) at the Government Medical and Dental Colleges Srinagar has urged the college principals to ensure adequate security to medicos at hospitals housing COVID-19 patients. In a letter shot to Principal GMC Srinagar on Monday, President MFA, Prof Sajad Majid Qazi has requested the administration to ensure “adequate security in […]

Saudi Arabia announces Eid Al Adha on 31 July

Saudi Arabia announces Eid Al Adha on 31 July

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has announced that Eid-Al-Adha’s first day will be marked on 31 July, Friday, reported Gulf News. The court said Tuesday marks the 30th of Dhu Al Qaeda, and Wednesday, 22 July, will mark the first of Dhu Al Hijja. Since the first day of Eid-Al-Adha always falls on the 10th day of […]

Mine blast leaves two soldiers injured

Mine blast leaves two soldiers injured

A mine blast has left two soldiers injured in Nowshera Sector of Rajouri district here in Jammu region. Defence sources told news agency KNT that two soldiers while on duty in Kalal area of Nowshera sector were injured when a mine went office suddenly. The injured were rushed to hospital for treatment. Sources identified the […]

Lightning kills three in Poonch

Lightning kills three in Poonch

On Tuesday, a lightning strike killed three persons, including a young couple, in a remote village in Poonch district of Jammu, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Unnamed officials told GNS that last night, at around 11:30 pm, lightning struck Gumsar Dhoke in Surankote area of the Poonch district, killing three persons […]

4 More Die of COVID, JK toll rose to 260

4 More Die of COVID, JK toll rose to 260

With the fresh four COVID-19 related deaths, the fatalities touched 260 in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Official sources informed Kashmir Despatch that, a 70-year-old woman from Lalbazar Srinagar, a 90-year-old man from Pattan Baramulla, a 43-year-old man from Parigam Pulwama and a 50-year-old from Mirbazar Kulgam died due to COVID-19 sofar in […]