Kashmir Valley reported five more deaths due to covid-19 since overnight, taking the fatality count due to the virus to 455 in J&K, officials sources said on Saturday. The victims, they said include a 55-year-old woman from Malopora Pulwama, a 60-year-old man from Panzgam Kupwara, a 50-year-old woman from Natipora Srinagar, a 50-year-old man from […]
In a shocking incident in Uri, a 50-year old woman ends her life on Saturday morning after his husband’s body reached home. The deceased womam is resident of Saidpora, Uri. Official sources told to GNS that a 50-year old Aulad Ali Shah s/o Mang Shah was admitted to GMC Baramulla and dies this morning due […]
A 40-year-old man was among two persons killed while as five others, including a woman, were injured as troops of India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire along the Line of Control in Karnah area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara and Poonch districts on Friday. An unnamed senior army officer told a local news agency, Global News Service […]
Srinagar: By-elections to all vacant posts of Panch and Sarpanch in Jammu and Kashmir will be held as soon as the coronavirus situation improves, Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has said. About 12,600 posts of panch and sarpanchs, out of nearly 40,000, are currently vacant. The vacant posts are mostly in Kashmir Valley. “We will hold […]
A South Korean study, published in medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, has found that asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19 spread the virus similar to the symptomatic patients. The study suggests that asymptomatic people who are infected with the coronavirus carry similar levels of the pathogen in their nose, throat and lungs as those with symptoms. The study was […]
The Supreme Court Friday asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to clarify its stance, by August 11, on requests for restoring 4G mobile internet services in the region. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that there will be no more adjournment after that. On July 28, the bench […]
After the breakdown of talks at the level of the Corps Commander to restore status quo ante at friction points on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, the division commanders of India and China are likely to meet in the coming days to arrive at a plan to reduce tensions in the strategic Depsang Plains. Official sources […]
Srinagar: The foremost regional parties of Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), boycotted the swearing-in ceremony of newly-appointed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, which took place in Srinagar Friday. Members of both Houses of Parliament representing J&K told ThePrint that although they were invited to attend the ceremony at Raj […]
New Delhi: On a wintry afternoon in 2017, a Union minister sitting in his Sanchar Bhawan chamber, was on the phone, and livid. “GM saheb, bahut shikaayat sun rahe hain aapki (Mr GM, I am hearing a lot of complaints about you)…” A visitor sitting in his chamber could make out from the conversation that it was some […]
The Indian Army will continue to sit it out along the 1,597 km Line of Actual Control in East Ladakh till China restores status quo ante, people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times after China’s People’s Liberation Army made an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a new normal at the border. India has told China […]