Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Ghulam Hassan Mir on Monday expressed solidarity with J&K media fraternity demanding immediate rollback of new media policy in J&K. In a statement issued to KNS, Mir urged the J&K government to go for a review of new media policy in consultation with representatives […]
Srinagar:Journalists under the banner of J&K Media Guild” staged a protest against Media policy and demanded its immediate rollback. Carrying banners that read “don’t gag media, we are an equally important pillar of democracy”, “down with media policy 2020” etc, the protesters assembled at Press Enclave here. “The new media policy is aimed at gagging […]
The death toll due to covid-19 mounted to 136 in Kashmir Valley after one more covid-19 patient, a 55-year-old woman from Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, died at a hospital here on Monday. Professor Farooq Jan, Medical Superintendent SKIMS Soura, told news agency GNS a 55-year-old woman from Boniyar Uri passed away at 8 […]
Kashmir Valley reported two more deaths on Monday due to covid-19, taking the death toll due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 135. Sources said that the victims are residents of Baramulla and Budgam. One is 90-year-old man from Tangmarg area of Baramulla and other one is 56 year old male from Kralpora […]
The body of one of the two boys who drowned while bathing in river Sindh in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district was retrieved after 18 hours on Monday. On Sunday, Zahid Farooq Rather and Rashid Khan, both residents of Palpora Noorbagh Srinagar, drowned in the water body near Kijpora Kangan. The locals as well SDRF team […]
Two boys drowned in Nallah Sindh in Kijpora area of Kangan in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Sunday late afternoon. A senior police officer told the news agency—Kashmir News observer (KNO) that the two boys aged 17 and 18 drowned in the Nallah while taking a bath. He said that soon after the incident a […]
Srinagar: Kashmir Valley reported six more deaths due to covid-19, taking the death toll due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 133. Sources said that the victims include three residents of Srinagar, two from Bandipora and one from Anantnag. Three among them including a 60-year-old woman from Shadipora area of Bandipora and two […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday reported 183 fresh covid-19 infections, taking the number of cases in J&K to 8429. Giving the district wise breakup of the cases, officials told GNS that 59 were reported from Srinagar, Kupwara 20, Baramulla 17, Budgam 19, Samba 18, Ramban 10, Jammu nine, Kathua seven, four each in Pulwama, […]
JAMMU, JULY 05: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 1,89,164 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, […]
The Modi government has approved an annual plan worth Rs 574.16 crore for national highway works in Jammu and Kashmir (J-K) for 2020-21 in a big boost for J-K, an official spokesperson said on Saturday. “The major works incorporated in the approved annual plan included construction of 3.23 km three fly-overs in Srinagar on NH-44 (Jammu-Srinagar highway) […]