Principal Secretary Agriculture Department, Navin Choudhary, today convened a review meeting regarding finalization of new projects under NABARD for 2020-21 besides assessing progress on ongoing projects. Among others the meeting was attended by Chief General Manager NABARD J&K, Vice Chancellors of SKUAST Kashmir and Jammu, Director Agriculture, Director Horticulture, Director Sericulture and Director Finance AP. […]
A high level security review meeting was held at Police Headquarters (PHQ) Srinagar today under the chairmanship of Director General of Police J&K Shri Dilbag Singh in which over all security scenario of the UT particularly security arrangements with regard to EID, and Independence Day were discussed. The efforts of collective fight against the COVID […]
Shocking reports are coming from SKIMS where authorities have kept Covid-19 positive patients along with non-Covid-19 patients, triggering panic among general patients, attendants and visitors as well. Sources told KNS that SKIMS has become a super-spreader of Covid-19 pandemic as general and Covid-19 positive patients are being kept along in emergency ward repeatedly. They added […]
Kashmir Valley reported one more death due to covid-19, eleventh since last night, taking the fatality count due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 360, officials said on Thursday. They said that four deaths took place at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 patients, as many […]
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency on Thursday carried raids at Awantipora residence of a man arrested in April this year in a narco-militancy case. Official sourves said that a team of NIA carried the raids in Khandaypora area Awantipora in Pulwama district and searched the house of the man, Hilal Ahmad Wagay, a truck driver. […]
Suspected militants fired upon army Casper vehicle in Drabgam area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). An unnamed senior police officer told the agency that militants fired upon Army Casper from an orchard in Drabgam, however, no injuries were reported. Meanwhile, the whole area has […]
Various media teams are visiting Jammu and Kashmir in next two weeks. According to an order issued by the Government, Nodal officers and Joint Nodal officers have been appointed for coordinating the proposed visits of Media teams to J&K over the next two weeks. The order reads: Principal Secretary Govt Housing and Urban Development Department […]
Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), Gazenfar Ali, today reviewed progress of various projects under AMRUT scheme. The status of all the works under AMRUT that included Sewerage and Septage, Drainage sector, Rejuvenation of Brari Nambal, Urban Transport sector, Green Space sector, Water Works sector and other issues were discussed at length. The Commissioner was informed […]
Iltija Mufti hit out at the Centre for its “cruel” detention of her mother, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, and for stripping the region of its autonomy, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. In an interview to the newspaper, Iltija Mufti recalled how the police came with a warrant for her mother on August 5 […]
In this current hot summer, rains have been very less witnessed in Kashmir valley and Ladakh region. Due to the lack of rainfall, even the drinking water chain available in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir has been impacted. Less rains during the summer months also resulted in less volume of water in the water […]