A 32 year old woman was injured in a cross border shelling in Karnah sector of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS) a 32 year old women identified as Parveena Begum wife of fareed Ahmad injured on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday in Hajitra village of Karnah after armies […]
Strict curbs were imposed in Kashmir Valley on Thursday after huge surge in Covid-19 caseloads were reported from couple of weeks with subsequent deaths. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), authorities imposed strict restriction in Srinagar and other parts of Valley, a day after the UT Government announced another phase of lockdown across the Valley […]
New Delhi: The 11 months of lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir has not only resulted in an “across-the-board violation of human rights”, it also led to the “denial of the right to bail and fair and speedy trial, coupled with misuse of draconian legislation, such as the Public Safety Act (PSA) and the Unlawful Activities Prevention […]
Srinagar: The Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday released a report in which it said that the developments in the union territory after the scrapping of Article 370 last August have “highlighted a tri-lateralisation of the dispute over Kashmir between India, Pakistan and China” and added a “new edge to the strategic China-Pakistan nexus against […]
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Jammu and Kashmir, G C Murmu Thursday announced the launch of a major Macadamisation Program for roads across the union territory. The announcement comes in the backdrop of grievances relating to poor condition of roads and the problems connected thereto, presented before the Lieutenant Governor during his tours as a part of […]
Srinagar: Amid spike in COVID cases, the government on Thursday sanctioned Rs 15 Crore under State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for Sher Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, Government Medical Colleges (GMC) Srinagar and Jammu. The decision to sanction Rs five Crore each to the three health institutions was taken in a State Executive […]
Four members of a family were reported missing while body of the fifth member was recovered on Thursday after a vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident near Kaghote Nallah. Police officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a family was travelling in their new car from Langa Ramnagar to Udhampur […]
Amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases, a plasma screening camp was organised at Kashmir Nursing Home for screening of donors who have recovered from the infection. The J&K Police in collaboration with the Department of Health and Medical Education organised the plasma screening camp. The camp was inaugurated by Director General of Police, Jammu […]
It should have been a happy family reunion. However, the story of this 17-year-old Anantnag boy is anything but. Given up by his underage parents as soon as he was born, growing up scarred by violence and mental health issues, married off at the age of 13, arrested two years ago for the alleged murder […]
A policeman was on Wednesday shot dead by unknown gunman in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, officials told GNS. They said that gunman fired upon at the cop, a former Ikhwani (government gunman) identified as Abdul Rashid Dar (58) son of Ghulam Hassan at Furrah area in Mir Bazar Kulgam, leaving him critically injured. He […]