Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today e-inaugurated 15 important infrastructural projects of School Education Department. Kewal Kumar Sharma, Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor; Sh. BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Dr. Asgar Hassan Samoon, Principal Secretary to the Government, School Education Department, Directors School Education – Anuradha Gupta and Mohammad Younis Malik, Dr. Arun Kumar Manhas, Project […]
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police north Kashmir zone Mohammad Suleiman Chowdhary on Monday said that intelligence inputs suggest that there are 35-40 foreign militants active in parts of north Kashmir, adding that some 16 or 17 local militants are also active. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), DIG north Kashmir while addressing media personnel […]
NEW DELHI: India’s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly late on Saturday said the national team will tour Australia in December but called for a shortened quarantine period for the players. Australia has checked the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) except in Melbourne, its second-biggest city, which has witnessed a recent surge in cases. “Ya, ya, […]
Srinagar: President of Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) Altaf Bukhari on Monday termed the restrictions imposed on the visit of political parties to Mazar-e-Shohda for paying homage to 13 July 1931 martyrs as highly regrettable. In a statement issued here, Mr. Bukhari said that the martyrs’ graveyard in old Srinagar city symbolizes the legacy […]
Even as the authorities have ordered a partial lockdown in Srinagar amid a surge in Covid cases, the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Administration on Sunday decided to open the tourism sector in the Union Territory (UT) in a phased manner from Tuesday. The decision followedthe recent directions of Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Girish Chandra Murmu for the […]
Strict lockdown restrictions were re-imposed in most parts of Kashmir, including in the city here, on Monday after a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases in the valley over the past week, officials said. They said strict restrictions have been imposed in Srinagar and other parts of the valley and no movement of people, except for […]
Amid rising incidents of ceasefire violations across the Line of Control (LoC), Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Monday reached Jammu to review the operational preparedness of troops deployed along the border with Pakistan. According to sources, senior army commanders will brief General Naravane about the security situation on the ground. Army officials, however, […]
One more militant has been killed in the gunfight between militants and the government forces in Viddy Srigufwara area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday morning, taking the toll of killed militants to two. An unnamed official told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that two militants have been killed while as […]
A 46-year-old man from Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Srinagar, on Monday, taking the fatality count due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 182. The patient was suffering from bilateral community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) besides “multiple myelomas, thrombocytopenia and electrolyte dysfunction,” Dr G N Itoo, Deputy […]
More than 630 new coronavirus-related deaths were confirmed in Brazil in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s total Covid-19 death toll up to over 72,000 according to the latest data from the Health Ministry. In the past 24 hours, 24,831 new cases and 631 new deaths from Covid-19 were confirmed, according to Sunday health […]
