Casual Labourer Electrocuted to Death in Zakura

Casual Labourer Electrocuted to Death in Zakura

Srinagar, Mar 11 (KNS) : A casual labour of the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Ltd died of electrocution in Zakura area of Srinagar outskirts on Wednesday. Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service said that an employee of PDC was repairing a transmission line in Zakura area when he received the electric shock, he was taken […]

Grenade detected on roadside in Srinagar, destroyed

Grenade detected on roadside in Srinagar, destroyed

Srinagar Government forces on Wednesday morning detected a live hand grenade at Barbershah area of Srinagar city. Official sources told news agency  GNS that the grenade was detected by paramilitary CRPF in the area and Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was immediately summoned to the spot. After being detected, the device was later destroyed without causing any damage […]

Remove security personnel around Kamaal, Khalida, Shah: HC directs Govt

Remove security personnel around Kamaal, Khalida, Shah: HC directs Govt

J&K High Court on Tuesday directed the government to withdraw immediately the security personnel deputed in and around the residential houses of National Conference leader Mustafa Kamaal, president Awami National Conference Begum Khalida Shah and her son Muzaffar Shah. A division bench of Justice D S Thakur and Justice Sanjeev Kumar  asked the government to […]

Public outreach

Public outreach

LG Murmu has recently directed the authorities to reach out to common people in Jammu and Kashmir as there has been lot of uncertainty and panic due to the growing threat of corona virus. Apart from helpline and setting up of control rooms even at the district levels, checkpoints and screening points have been set […]

Army soldier dies of cardiac arrest in Srinagar

Army soldier dies of cardiac arrest in Srinagar

An army soldier died due to cardiac arrest in Rangreth area of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. A police official told news agency GNS that the soldier, M Paramaeswaran of 127 Light AD Regiment at Old Airfield Rangreth, was found dead today morning. He was immediately shifted to a nearby military health facility where he […]

Sher e Kashmir a political Titan, his legacy will continue to resonate: NC

Sher e Kashmir a political Titan, his legacy will continue to resonate: NC

Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Minority and Legal cell on Tuesday expressed dismay over the efforts to belittle the contribution of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah by the present regime and called him a political Titan whose legacy and struggle against tyranny will continue to resonate among the people of J&K. Discarding the measure, NC said, […]

CRPF trooper injured in Pulwama grenade blast

CRPF trooper injured in Pulwama grenade blast

Srinagar A paramilitary trooper was injured after unknown persons lobbed a grenade on police station Kakpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday evening. A police official said that suspected militants attacked the police station with the grenade. “In the blast one CRPF trooper Sonu Kumar of 41 bn sustained splinter injuries,” he said. The […]

Div Com reviews preparedness, asks people not to panic

Div Com reviews preparedness, asks people not to panic

Directs for intense fumigation; says 1229 quarantine beds earmarked SRINAGAR, MARCH 10: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan today chaired a high level meeting to review preparedness to tackle Coronavirus (COVID-19) threat put in place by line departments across the valley. The meeting was informed that Isolation wards have been earmarked in SKIMS, Chest […]