Wild cannabis plantation on a vast land was destroyed on Friday by a joint team of revenue, police and local youth in Boniyar area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. An official said that destruction of the cannabis plantation is being carried out in a bid to end the drug menace in the area with the […]
A teenage girl studying in twelfth standard died under mysterious conditions in Agrati village of Rajouri on late Thursday evening, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed police officials told the news agency that the victim was aged about 17 or 18, and the police have started the investigation into the matter. […]
Srinagar: Chairman PSC meets Lt Governor; discusses road map for conducting examinations, interviews The Chairman discussed with the Lt Governor about various important issues pertaining to the functioning of the Jammu and Kashmir PSC. He briefed the Lt Governor about the road map being prepared for the conduct of various examinations and interviews including J-K […]
Grass root level political workers affiliated with different political parties and elected panchayat members are facing difficult times on ground while functioning in Kashmir valley. A recent window to such conditions was created in the media when three members of the same family working for BJP as local leaders of Bandipora district were killed by […]
Since the last four months, Farooq Ahmad Bhat and his NGO, Help Poor Voluntary Trust, have become a beacon of hope for hundreds living in the Kashmir Valley who are in need of medical assistance and have been the hardest hit during the lockdown. Every morning, dozens of patients and their relatives line up outside […]
With three Congress MLAs in Madhya Pradesh resigning in the last two weeks, former chief minister Kamal Nath on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, exhorting him to protect “democratic values”. There was an “undemocratic pandemic” prevailing in the country in which the BJP was luring away MLAs to topple elected governments […]
India on Friday recorded 49,310 new cases of the coronavirus disease, another high after a record over 45,000 cases in a day on Thursday. According to Union health ministry data, the number of Covid-19 cases have now reached 12,87,945. The number of active cases in the country are 4,40,135, while 8,17,208. The country also recorded […]
In a move that will mainly affect entities from China, the government has amended the General Financial Rules, 2017, imposing restrictions on public procurement from bidders of countries that share a land border with India, citing grounds of defence and national security. Bidders from these countries will be eligible only if they are registered with the […]
The government today directed that the patients from districts will be admitted at category I health institutions in Srinagar only on proper referral by the District Health authorities. The patients from districts will be accepted and admitted at Category I Health Care institutions in Srinagar i.e. SKIMS Soura, SMHS Hospital, Chest Diseases Hospital, Srinagar and […]
JAMMU, JULY 23: The Government on Thursday informed that 718 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 117 from Jammu division and 601 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 16429. Also 09 COVID-19 deaths have been reported from Kashmir Division. […]