Lieutenant Governor chairs 39th meeting of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board

Lieutenant Governor chairs 39th meeting of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board

Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu, Chairman of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), presided over 39th Board meeting of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board today in which the Board members participated virtually through video conference to discuss the conduct of the Yatra 2020. The meeting was attended by Shri B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Bipul Pathak, […]

Annual Amarnnath Yatra cancelled

Annual Amarnnath Yatra cancelled

Shri Amarnnath shrine board of Jammu and Kashmir UT on Tuesday cancelled the annual Amarnnath yatra 2020 citing surge in Covid-19 cases. Highly placed Sources said, that the decision was taken during a meeting of Shrine Board in which Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor GC Murmu and other officers took participation which was held on […]

Water paucity forces women to protest outside DC office Shopian

Water paucity forces women to protest outside DC office Shopian

Several women on Tuesday stage a protest demonstration outside Deputy Commissioner’s office Shopian against paucity of drinking water supply in the area. According to reports reached to Kashmir News Service (KNS), large number of women with empty vessels blocked the road outside District Development Office in south Kashmir’s Shopian district for not getting adequate supply […]

26 infected SKIMS staff members undergoing treatment, situation inside hospital grim, junior doctors, paramedics scared

26 infected SKIMS staff members undergoing treatment, situation inside hospital grim, junior doctors, paramedics scared

Staff members of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura who tested Covid-19 positive earlier, have been formally admitted and are undergoing treatment under Covid-19 protocol, official said. He added at least 26 employees from SKIMS, Soura including staff nurses, doctors driver and some laboratory technicians have tested Covid-19 positive couple of days ago and […]

NCERT adds scrapping of Article 370 to Class 12 textbook chapter, drops portion on separatist politics in JK

NCERT adds scrapping of Article 370 to Class 12 textbook chapter, drops portion on separatist politics in JK

The NCERT has revised a chapter in its Class 12 political science textbook to drop a paragraph on separatist politics in Jammu and Kashmir and to add a brief mention of the scrapping of its special status last year. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revised the chapter in the textbook […]

Assault on doctors at SMHS Hospital: MFA demands adequate security at Covid hospitals

Assault on doctors at SMHS Hospital: MFA demands adequate security at Covid hospitals

Srinagar: The Medical Faculty Association (MFA) at the Government Medical and Dental Colleges Srinagar has urged the college principals to ensure adequate security to medicos at hospitals housing COVID-19 patients. In a letter shot to Principal GMC Srinagar on Monday, President MFA, Prof Sajad Majid Qazi has requested the administration to ensure “adequate security in […]

Saudi Arabia announces Eid Al Adha on 31 July

Saudi Arabia announces Eid Al Adha on 31 July

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has announced that Eid-Al-Adha’s first day will be marked on 31 July, Friday, reported Gulf News. The court said Tuesday marks the 30th of Dhu Al Qaeda, and Wednesday, 22 July, will mark the first of Dhu Al Hijja. Since the first day of Eid-Al-Adha always falls on the 10th day of […]

Mine blast leaves two soldiers injured

Mine blast leaves two soldiers injured

A mine blast has left two soldiers injured in Nowshera Sector of Rajouri district here in Jammu region. Defence sources told news agency KNT that two soldiers while on duty in Kalal area of Nowshera sector were injured when a mine went office suddenly. The injured were rushed to hospital for treatment. Sources identified the […]