SRINAGAR: On the eve of Eid-ul-Azha, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) will start a two-day special sanitation drive across the city starting from Tuesday. Chief Sanitation Officer (CSO), SMC Mudasir Banday told Kashmir Reader that the two days special sanitation drive will start from Tuesday till July 29. He said in addition to routine sanitation, focus […]
Anantnag: The father of a slain militant has gone missing here in Tral area of south Kashmir and is believed to have joined the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant outfit, local and police sources in Tral said on Monday. If that is true, 48-year-old Abdul Hameed Chopan will be the oldest among the cadre of militants here […]
In a strange manner the government of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to re-impose lockdown in the entire Kashmir following steep rise in Covid-19 cases. Allowing people to move freely in every district of Kashmir, had already done the damage as hundreds of people are testing positive with each passing day and Srinagar city is […]
Resident of new colony Charar-I-sharief in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Tuesday complained that the decades ago old health center has not been upgraded by the health department. According to the residents the health center is just three kilometres from the main town but there is no any facilities available at the mini hospital leaving […]
New Delhi: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has said that he “will not be contesting any assembly elections” while Jammu and Kashmir remains a Union Territory, in a stinging piece in The Indian Express as the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status is set to complete one year on August 5. He also recalled his meeting […]
A month after Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the aging leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference stepped down from his post as “chairman for life” of the Kashmiri separatist grouping with a fierce attack on Pakistan after year-long efforts by Islamabad to sideline him and his nominee in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, efforts are on in Pakistan to contain the […]
WITH THE Central law on land acquisition being extended to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the J&K administration has withdrawn a 1971 circular that required a no objection certificate (NOC) from its home department for acquisition or requisition of land in favour of the Army, BSF, CRPF and other similar organisations. Such acquisition […]
In his first interview to The Indian Express since the abrogation of the special status of Jammu & Kashmir and his release from detention, Omar Abdullah, Vice President, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, and former Chief Minister of erstwhile state of J&K, speaks about a range of issues from the Gupkar Declaration on August 4, 2019, to […]
Ten persons including a National Conference block president died of Covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir on Monday taking the number of people who died of deadly virus to 328 in the Union Territory. Official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that ten patients who were tested positive for Covid-19 and died include a 65-year-old from Safakadal […]
5000 MT capacity climate control storage plant to come up at Jammu JAMMU, JULY 27: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today e -inaugurated four projects of Jammu and Kashmir Agro Industries Development Corporation and Horticulture Planning & Marketing department, in presence of Sh. Navin Kumar Choudhary, Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Horticulture Department. In Horticulture Planning […]