Also interacts with local mediapersons, scribes from Kupwara; meets DC Sgr SRINAGAR, MARCH 17: The three-member sub-committee of the Press Council of India (PCI) which is on a four-day visit to Kashmir today visited Kashmir Press Club (KPC) and interacted with the members. President KPC, Shuja ul Haq briefed the PCI team about the functioning […]
The administration in Kashmir on Tuesday ordered the closure of hotels, restaurants, community kitchens and banned home delivery of food in Srinagar as part of additional steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus. While educational institutions are already closed, the institutions and their heads have been asked to submit proposals for televised coaching or classes. […]
Accredited private laboratories could soon be allowed to start coronavirus testing facilities but they will be asked to absorb the costs and offer the service for free to patients, a top official of the Indian Council of Medical Research, or ICMR, said on Tuesday. The first step screening test costs about Rs 1,500 while the […]
A Delhi court on Tuesday extended by seven days the police custody of a Kashmiri couple and another accused who were arrested for having alleged links with an ISIS module. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana sent the trio to the custody of police. Jahanjeb Sami and his wife Hina Bashir Beg were arrested by the […]
Srinagar: Ever since the coronavirus scare has reached the Kashmir valley, people from various quarters of life have called on the authorities to resume 4G services in the region that has been bereft of high speed internet for over seven months now. The appeals have multiplied ever since the administration ordered a slew of measures to […]
New Delhi [India], Mar 17 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that the number of registered migrant families from Jammu and Kashmir currently residing in Jammu is 43,618, in Delhi/NCR is 19,338 and in other States/UTs is 1,995. Hence, the total number of registered migrant families residing in Union […]
New Delhi, Mar 17 (PTI) A total of 79 terrorist incidents have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir ever since the central government abrogated Article 370, which gave special status to the erstwhile state, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. However, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said, no major terror attack […]
Srinagar, 17 March 2020: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday appealed people to limit their visits to hospitals across Jammu and Kashmir to prevent and curtail transmission of the Covid-19—that has been declared pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a statement, President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said hospitals remain abuzz with hundreds of […]
The government on Tuesday appointed Pandurang Kondbarao Pole, Secretary to the Government, Department of Food, Civil, Supplies and Consumer Affairs, as Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir. A 2001-batch IAS officer will replace Baseer Ahmad Khan who has been appointed as 4th advisor to lieutenant governor irish Chandra Murmu.Beside appointment of the Pole as Divisional commissioner, the government […]
Srinagar, Mar 17: District Development Commissioner Dr Shahid Iqbal Chowdary on Tuesday directed heads of Departments and Institutions to devise and submit proposal for televised coaching classes by March 20 this month which shall be supported and financed by District Administration Srinagar. At a time when Coronavirus is creating ripples and panic among people, authorities […]