Jammu and Kashmir police said on Wednesday (August 26) that Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NHW-44) continued to remain blocked as clearance work following landslide and heavy rains in the area is still underway.
A 35-year-old man was killed after a fresh landslide triggered by heavy rainfall hit Kotli village of Manjkote in Rajouri district on Wednesday. The fresh landslides triggered by the heavy rainfall also damaged numbers of roads and bridges partially in Rajouri and Poonch district areas. Unnamed officials told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer […]
A residential house was on Wednesday partially damaged in a fire incident in Noorkha village of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed officials told the agency that mysterious fire was broke out from a residential house of Syed Zulfikar, son of Sayed Altaf Hussain, leaving […]
Srinagar: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Ram Madhav is scheduled to visit Srinagar to check party pulse tomorrow, sources in the party revealed on Wednesday. They told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Madhav will arrive in Srinagar tomorrow morning and right away chair party workers meeting to check the party pulse. “He will […]
A number of bridges and roads suffered partial to moderate damages on Wednesday morning after flash floods in Suktoh and Darhali rivers due to heavy rainfall in upper reaches of the district. Officials said that the water level in two rivers that cross the Rajouri town surged all of a sudden around 5:40 am. “At […]
Calling the Pulwama attack a “well-planned criminal conspiracy hatched by Pakistan-based leadership of terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad”, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), in its chargesheet filed on Tuesday, has listed key evidence including the “forensically matched” voice of JeM chief Masood Azhar’s brother, Rouf Asgar, discussing the attack, and a Pakistan government identity card issued to Azhar’s nephew, Mohammed […]
Amid the border row with China, India is expediting work on a strategic road linking Darcha in Himachal Pradesh with Ladakh that will crisscross a number of high-altitude snow-bound passes, official sources said on Tuesday. They said the nearly 290-km-long road will be crucial for movement of the troops and heavy weaponry into the frontier […]
Apple High Density Programme in the J&K was reviewed by K. K. Sharma, Advisor to Lt. Governor, J&K at Civil Secretariat, Srinagar in a meeting which was attended by Ajaz Ahmad Bhat, KAS, Director Horticulture Kashmir and others. The Director Horticulture Kashmir informed that till date 240 hac of land has been brought under the […]
Lieutenant Governor J&K Manoj Sinha will chair first Administrative Council meet on August 27, wherein according to sources, some key decisions are likely to be taken. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), LG Sinha who assumed chair two weeks ago is going to preside the first Administrative Council meeting on August 27, 2020. An order […]
JAMMU, AUGUST 25, 2020: For the convenience of all PLI/RPLI policy holders, Department of Posts has extended the last date for revival of their lapsed policies till November 30, 2020. “As a one -time measure, PLI/RPLI policies, which have crossed the limit of 5 years since date of payment of last premium, are being provided […]