Srinagar: District Budgam will soon be getting a 100-bedded hospital for labourers which would be built with an estimated cost of Rs 180 crore at Ompora Housing Colony, informed Commissioner Secretary Labour and Employment (L&E), Saurabh Bhagat, here on Thursday. He said this while chairing a meeting of officers of Labour and Employment and other […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested a Kashmir University student hailing from south Kashmir’s Shopian district in a case registered against him in 2018. Aqib Ahmad Malik, a second-semester student of Bio-Chemistry at the premier educational institute of the valley, had been summoned by police for questioning in a case related to unlawful […]
One more militant has been killed in an ongoing encounter in Ranbirgarh area on the outskirts of Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Saturday, taking toll to two. Inspector General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar told news agency GNS that one more militant has been killed in the ongoing encounter. However, the identity of the militants […]
It was a rare and dark moment in the life of Iltija Mufti, daughter of the PDP president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, to witness the taking away of her mother on August 5 last year by the police, hours before the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was scrapped and the state came […]
A gunfight has broken out between militants and security forces in Ramalgand Outskirts Of Srinagar on Saturday morning. An official told news agency—kashmir news observer (KNO), that “a Joint team of security forces including Army’s, Special Operations Group (SOG) and CRPF launched a search operation after specific inputs about presence of militants in the area. […]
Senior Congress leader and Former Minister of J&K Ghulam Nabi Azad demanded restoration of statehood followed by assembly elections to J&K during his meeting with Prime Minister Narinder Modi yesterday evening . In an exclusive chat with KNS from Delhi, Azad said that he called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi exclusively for […]
ANANTNAG, JULY 24: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Anantnag, K K Sidha today chaired a meeting of officers to review Eid-ul-Adha arrangements. The meeting discussed threadbare rate structure and quality parameters of sacrificial animals and decided that 16 sale centers for sheep and goats at all block headquarters will be available to the people. The DC directed that […]
JAMMU, JULY 24: The Government on Thursday informed that 353 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 129 from Jammu division and 224 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 16782. Also 14 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 01 from Jammu […]
Government of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday ordered disbursement of salary in advance for the month of July to the employees of UT in wake of Eid-ul-Adha. An order issued by Arun Kumar Mehta, IAS, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department reads, “It is hereby ordered that salary bills for the month of July, 2020 shall be […]
SRINAGAR, JULY 24: The State Executive Committee (SEC), headed by Mr. B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary, J&K, met here today and sanctioned an amount of Rs.50 crore under SDRF in favour of Deputy Commissioners of twenty districts of the UT, for further intensifying the COVID containment efforts as well as for meeting any eventuality arising on […]