JK ranks second in country for NCD Screening

JK ranks second in country for NCD Screening

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 13: Jammu & Kashmir was adjudged as second best in Non Communicable Diseases Screening in the country for which an award was presented by Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare to Mission Director, NHM, J&K Yasin M. Choudhary and his team at a National level […]

Zeewan Attack: 2 Among 14 Injured Cops Succumb

Zeewan Attack: 2 Among 14 Injured Cops Succumb

Srinagar: Two among 14 police personnel injured in a militant attack on Srinagar-Jammu highway near Zeewan succumbed to wounds at a hospital here, officials said on Monday. A bus of police’s armed forces was fired upon near Aripora Zeewan in outskirts of Srinagar on Srinagar-Jammu highway on Monday afternoon. Official sources said at least 14 […]

14 injured as militants target police bus on Highway near Zeewan Srinagar

14 injured as militants target police bus on Highway near Zeewan Srinagar

Srinagar : At least 14 police personnel were injured, three of them critically, when militants attacked a bus of police’s armed forces near Aripora Zeewan in outskirts of Srinagar on Srinagar-Jammu highway on Monday afternoon. Official sources told  that the gunmen attacked the bus, leaving at least 14 cops injured. While the injured have been […]

Farooq Abdullah talks about partition and its pain

Farooq Abdullah talks about partition and its pain

By: Musaib Iqbal MK Srinagar Farooq Abdullah while reacting to the statement of Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh that the partition of the country on religious lines was a ‘historic mistake’, he said that partition has given pain and sufferings not only to the Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir but to the entire Muslim community […]

Fire breaks out in forest division Sgr

Fire breaks out in forest division Sgr

Srinagar: A massive fire broke out at forest division urban near Shankaracharya temple here on Monday afternoon, officials said. Officials said that the fire broke out in forest division Srinagar near Shankaracharya temple. They said that the the firefighters and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men are on job to douse the flames—(KNO)

Army personnel shoots self dead in Kupwara

Army personnel shoots self dead in Kupwara

Kupwara: An army personnel ended his life by shooting himself dead inside a camp in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, official said on Monday. They said that the army personnel of Havildar rank identified as Shinde Sandeep Arjun was posted at Drangyari Chowkibal when he shot himself with own service rifle at around 4:30 a.m. […]

Unabated cold wave in Kashmir, Ladakh

Unabated cold wave in Kashmir, Ladakh

Srinagar: Intense cold conditions continued in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Monday as Srinagar recorded a low of minus 3.5 degrees Celsius. A meteorological department official here told GNS that the minimum temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of J-K, was 2.5 degrees Celsius below the normal for this time of the year. Today’s […]

Pakistan start as heavy favourites against virus-depleted Windies

Pakistan start as heavy favourites against virus-depleted Windies

KARACHI: If being shorn of their top players due to injury or otherwise wasn’t enough for the West Indies, Covid-19 has robbed them of three more players for the Twenty20 series against Pakistan starting from Monday. Pacer Sheldon Cottrell and all-rounders Roston Chase and Kyle Mayers all tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday night, reducing […]

Pandemic pushed 500 million people into poverty: WHO

Pandemic pushed 500 million people into poverty: WHO

GENEVA/VIENNA: More than half a billion (500 million) people globally were pushed into extreme poverty last year as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank said on Sunday. The pandemic disrupted health services globally and triggered the […]