SRINAGAR, JULY 31: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu has conveyed his warm greetings to the people of J&K in general and to the Muslim brethren in particular, on the auspicious occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. In his message of felicitations, the Lt Governor observed that this festival endorses the spirit of sacrifice, benevolence and generosity towards others. […]
JAMMU, JULY 31: The Government on Friday informed that 490 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 143 from Jammu division and 347 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 20359. Also 12 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 02 from Jammu […]
Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday has asked people in the Valley not to stigmatize Covid-19 patients. “People who are affected by Covid-19 are increasingly facing discrimination,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. “Even those who have recovered from Covid-19 face such discrimination,” he said. Dr Nisar said Covid patients are […]
At a day, when authorities freed Chairman Jammu Kashmir Peoples Conference Sajad Lone, it extended the detention period of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti by 3 more months under contentious Public Safety Act. Principal Secretary Home, Shaleen Kabra in this regard has issued a formal order, a copy of which lies with KNT that talks […]
In a bid to rein employees found involved in ‘anti-national’ activities, Government has begun the process to act tough which could lead to their dismissal of their services. Sources told KNS that J&K Government has constituted a panel to scrutinize and recommend cases for dismissal of services of those employees who were involved in ‘anti-national’ […]
A day after the Supreme Court disposed of a petition by Saifuddin Soz’s wife over his “illegal detention”, accepting the government’s submission that he was under no restrictions, the J&K Congress leader was stopped by the police as he tried to move out of his house in Srinagar. As mediapersons watched, police personnel pulled away the 83-year-old […]
The recent significant decision taken by JK Chief Secretary to bring the levels of pressure on the health infrastructure here will go a long way to streamline the process. The need was felt as despite fresh lockdown everyday hundreds of new positive cases are detected infected by Covid-19. The government said that referral hospitals […]
Almost a year after he was detained in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, People’s Conference chairman and former state minister Sajad Lone was released from house arrest on Friday. Lone took to Twitter to announce his release and said that jail was not a new experience for him but the latest […]
Srinagar: A Border Security Force soldier died of cardiac arrest during duty along the Line of Control in Mankote area of this district on Friday. They said constable R .Ravindra of 72 battalion BSF suffered the heart attack at Songali post in Mankote sector. The 43-year-old was shifted to nearby health facility where doctors declared […]
The editor of a south Kashmir based news portal, The Kashmiriyat, was summoned by Jammu and Kashmir police’s cyber cell in Srinagar on Friday for “unknown reasons.” In a statement, the Kashmiriyat said that Qazi Shibli “got a call from the Cyber Police station at around 2:15 PM on Thursday asking him to present himself” in the Cyber Police […]