Novel device creates electricity from snowfall

Novel device creates electricity from snowfall

Agencies Scientists have designed a first-of-its-kind 3D-printed device that can produce electricity from falling snow. The device designed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. “The device can work in remote areas because it provides its own power […]

Decomposed body found in septic tank at SMHS hospital

Decomposed body found in septic tank at SMHS hospital

Srinagar:   Authorities at Srinagar’s SMHS hospital on Tuesday said they have found a decomposed body in a septic tank. The officals said that the body that seems three months old (decomposed) was found near the Emergency department. A doctor at the hospital told Rising Kashmir that the body was found this afternoon in an underground […]

India trying to make Kashmir jails a Guantanamo: Mehbooba

India trying to make Kashmir jails a Guantanamo: Mehbooba

Agencies Srinagar: Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Tuesday that the Indian government was trying to convert prisons in Jammu and Kashmir into a Guantanamo bay. Mehbooba Mufti said tweeted: “Prisoners are entitled to fundamental human rights and using brute force to quell protests is a clear violation. “Pertinent […]

13 year old boy hit by army vehicle in Poonch, dies

13 year old boy hit by army vehicle in Poonch, dies

Poonch:  A 13 year old boy was crushed to death by an army vehicle at Gulpore area of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday afternoon. Reports reaching GNS said that the minor boy namely Sajad Ahmad son of Mohd Taj of Gulpore was injured critically after being hit by an army vehicle in […]

Grenade attack on NC leaders house in Tral

Grenade attack on NC leaders house in Tral

Srinagar : Militants fired a grenade from an under- barrel grenade launcher (UBGL) at a National Conference (NC) leader’s house in Pulwama’s Tral on Tuesday. Preliminary reports suggest the grenade, aimed at the house of NC leader Ashraf Bhat, exploded outside the residence. At the time of attack, a number of NC leaders and activists […]

PC activist who fell from vehicle last week succumbs

PC activist who fell from vehicle last week succumbs

Srinagar : A 37-year old activist of Peoples Conference who was injured critically after he fell from a moving vehicle near Bakhihaker in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district last week succumbed to injuries in a hospital here in Srinagar. Reports said that the man Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, son of Ghulam Mohammad Mir, a […]

Day curfew lifted in Kishtwar

Day curfew lifted in Kishtwar

Agencies Jammu : Day curfew was lifted from the communally sensitive Kishtwar township of Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday after remaining in force for a week following the killing of a senior RSS leader and his security guard, a senior government official said. However, night curfew along with prohibitory orders under section 144 CrPC banning assembly […]

Mobile internet services restored, curfew relaxed for three hours in J-K’s Kishtwar

Mobile internet services restored, curfew relaxed for three hours in J-K’s Kishtwar

Agencies Jammu: Mobile internet services in curfew-bound Kishtwar township of Jammu and Kashmir was restored on Monday after remaining suspended for the past six days following improvement in the overall law and order situation, a senior government official said.  The curfew, which was promulgated in the town and adjoining areas Tuesday last week following the killing […]

Jammu-Srinagar highway closed at Ramban due to landslide

Jammu-Srinagar highway closed at Ramban due to landslide

Jammu,  The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was blacked for traffic after a landslide in Ramban district on Monday, officials said. There was a landslide at Digdol area in Ramban resulting in blocking of the highway, they said. Men and machines are working to clear the landslide to reopen highway for traffic, they said. PTI