Srinagar: A 60-year-old covid-19 patient from Baramulla died at a hospital here, taking the fatality count due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 141. A resident of Kunzer Baramulla, the patient, a 60-year-old woman, passed away at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the covid-19 management in the Kashmir Valley. Medical […]
Srinagar: One militant as well as an army soldier have been killed in ongoing encounter in Gusso area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. Official sources told GNS that in an ongoing firefight one unidentified militant have been killed. Meanwhile Army soldier and cop of J&K Police were also injured in early exchange of […]
Suspected militants on Monday lobbed a grenade at Police post Delina in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. However, the grenade exploded on the road without causing any casualties, news agency KNO quoted Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Baramulla, Abdul Qayoom, as having said. Soon after the attack, a search operation was launched in the area to […]
Srinagar: Two paramilitary Sashastra Suraksha Bal(SSB) personnel were killed in a fratricidal incident in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Monday evening. Official sources told GNS that there was some altercation among troopers of 49 battalion of the SSB and subsequently the fratricidal killing incident took place in which of two of them got killed. […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 246 covid-19 infections, taking the overall tally of the cases to 8675 in J&K. Officials said that 36 cases were reported from Jammu division while 210 from Kashmir Valley and includes five from paramilitary CRPF, three from police and one from army besides two pregnant women and as […]
Stresses on close monitoring, speedy execution of development works; release of pending payments SRINAGAR, JULY 06: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today stressed on close monitoring of developmental works and their speedy execution, besides releasing of pending payments under various schemes on priority. The Lt Governor was chairing a high level meeting of Administrative Secretaries […]
Government of J&K Union Territory on Monday ordered all Administrative Secretaries to tour districts at least once a week. An order issued by Cheif Secretary J&K BVR Subramanyam states, “As directed by the Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor in the meeting held on July 6, all Administrative Secretaries are directed to tour districts at keast once a […]
District Development Commissioner (DDC) Shopian, Chaudhry Mohammad Yaseen today inspected the ongoing construction works of Receiving Stations Mastpora, Keller and Arhama, Shopian. The Receiving Station 6.3 MVA Mastpora, Keller constructed by Sub- Transmission Division (STD) Power Development Department (PDD) is coming up with an estimated cost of Rs. 3.4 crore and Receiving Station 10 MVA […]
Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan today took stock of ongoing works here at Bakhshi Stadium and Sher-i-Kashmir Indoor Stadium. At Bakhshi Stadium, Advisor Khan directed the concerned to set weekly targets for the executing agency to speed up the ongoing works and compensate the days lost during COVID-19 pandemic. The stadium, located in the […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Civil Secretariat began functioning simultaneously from the union territories two capitals, Jammu and Srinagar, on Monday—the first time this has happened in the history of the union territory. The coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the union territory has stalled the traditional “Darbar Move”—the biannual practice of moving the state capital from […]