Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory on Monday recorded one more death due to Novel Coronavirus, thus taking the overall death toll due to the virus to 84. Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a 65-year-old man from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district has died due to COVID at SMHS. Dr. Nazir […]
Poonch, Jun 22 (GNS): An Army soldier died of cardiac arrest in this frontier Poonch district on Monday, official sources said on Monday. They said that the soldier was on duty when died of cardiac attack early this morning at Army’s 8 Garhwal Unit in Baloni sector of Mankote in Mendhar area. The soldier […]
Srinagar, June 21 (KNS): The Srinagar Smart City Ltd convened it’s 5th meeting of Board of Directors which reviewed the progress made on various projects under equity and convergence, and also approved a host of new projects with focus on public infrastructure and services. Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir P K Pole in his capacity as Chairman […]
Despite witnessing a spike in the Covid cases, J&K witnessed an “encouraging jump” in the recovery rate from 30 per cent to 56 per cent in the past 10 days. On June 9, the recovery rate in J&K was just 30 per cent — out of the total 4,285 active cases only 1,324 have recovered. […]
An army personnel was killed as Pakistani troops opened fire and lobbed mortar shells at forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri and Poonch districts on Monday in violation of a ceasefire agreement, officials said. “At about 3.30 am on Monday, The Pakistan Army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by […]
Anantnag, June 22 (KNO): A gunfight broke out between militants and security in forests of Verinag area in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Monday. An official told News agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a joint team of Police, army’s 2 Paras and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation on specific information about the presence […]
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir will hold an emergency foreign ministerial meeting via video conference on 22 June 2020, to discuss the latest situation in the erstwhile state, the Muslim body said on Sunday. The meeting will bring together the foreign ministers of the J-K Contact Group member states: […]
Srinagar: The alleged discovery of a grenade at a corporator’s house, and suspected vandalism, intoxication and stalking — the unseating of Srinagar mayor Junaid Mattu this week has deteriorated into a truly bizarre drama that has local police confounded. Mattu, a member of the Peoples Conference, was removed Tuesday as the mayor of the Srinagar Municipal […]
Srinagar, June 20 (KNS): Parents of Medical Students struck in Kyrgyzstan today appeal the administration to evacuate their wards as soon as possible so that their wards can not suffer any more. Talking to KNS Mohd Iqbal he said ” From April we are demanding to evacuate our wards as govt had already evacuated the […]
Srinagar: Fifteen paramilitary forces personnel and five policemen were among 154 COVID-19 infections reported in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. The cases which also include six pregnant women and two doctors take the overall tally of the COVID-19 patients in J-K to 5834. Giving district wise break up, bulletin by Department of Information and Public Relation, […]