Imtiyaz Ahmad, 21, wanted to continue his studies after clearing his class 12 exam but did not have enough money to do so. With not much work available in the remote mountainous region of Rajouri, he left this summer for Shopian in Kashmir Valley to work as a labourer to earn enough money to secure admission to […]
Jammu and Kashmir recorded 17 more Covid deaths on Wednesday, taking their number to 1,181, while 975 new cases pushed the infection tally in the union territory to 75,070, officials said. Eleven of the fresh fatalities were reported in Jammu and six in the Valley, they added. There are 17,017 active cases in the UT, […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload breached the 63-lakh mark with 86,821 infections being reported in a day, while 52,73,201 people have recuperated so far from the disease, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The recovery rate stands at 83.53 per cent. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 63,12,584, while the death toll […]
Jammu: An Army Soldier was killed and another injured when Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire and resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling in forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Thursday. The Pakistan Army initiated the unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing from small arms and […]
Azerbaijan on Wednesday vowed to pursue military action against Armenian separatists in the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region until a full Armenian withdrawal from the disputed territory. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s during the collapse of the […]
SRINAGAR SEPTEMBER 30: The guidelines and instructions regarding lockdown measures already in force in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will continue till October 8, 2020. According to an order issued here today by the government, the State Executive Committee vide its order numbers 78 and 79-JK- (DMRRR) of 2020 dated 31.08.2020 issued guidelines […]
In a surprise move, the BJP has claimed that its members distributed door to door domicile certificates in Jammu today. “Senior BJP leaders Munish Sharma, Rinku Chauhan and Gopal Thakur today distributed 130 domicile certificates in a door-to-door distribution drive in Muthi and Janipur area of Jammu West,” a statement issued by the party said. “We are […]
Four houses were gutted in major fire incident in Hub-Chinar area of Srinagar while one damaged partially in capital city of Srinagar. On Tuesday night the fire emerged in Hub chinar area and consumed four structures, of namely, 1. Mehraj din Ganie, sanaullah sheikh, and Mehraj din sheikh. One other structure was partially damaged. Despite […]
State governments have been given a free hand to reopen schools after 15 October under the Centre’s Unlock 5.0 guidelines announced by the Union home ministry on Wednesday. A decision on opening colleges would be taken later. Institutions that have doctoral and postgraduate researchers in science and technology streams that require laboratory work can also […]
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 3 : Principal Secretary Housing & Urban Development Department, Deeraj Gupta Wednesday visited various areas of Srinagar to inspect the sites identified for developing vertical housing projects the government has approved to make affordable houses available to residents. He visited the sites located at Rakh-e-Gund Aksha, Khushipora, Shaltang, Palpora, Zoonimar, Harwan and Eidgah […]