Jammu Srinagar National Highway Traffic Plan for today
The widening/repair work at Panthal is going on and efforts are afoot to make the NHW worthy for two-way traffic. However, keeping in view over all condition of the road, allowing the two-way movement of all sort of traffic on the NHW is not feasible. In order to facilitate the passengers, tourists, emergency vehicles […]
Minister conducts late evening City tour
Minister for Education Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari conducted a late evening visit of various areas of Srinagar city to take appraisal of progress on various developmental works in progress under different schemes. Expressing dismay over the lack of supervision at the construction site of Grade Separator at Radio Kashmir Crossing, Bukhari stressed on the executing […]
Shopian village decries shortage of potable water
For past 25 years, inhabitants of Kandulan Village in South Kashmir’s Shopian district have been made to wait for the supply of potable water by the various governments. The residents of the village say that every time during election period politicians of all hues turn up in the village and promise us that they will […]
Sumo drivers resort to overcharging in Kangan, authorities in slumber
People living in rural areas of Ganderbal District have accused transport department and traffic police of failing to control transporters from charging extra fare from passengers as per the approved rate list. Several people living in rural areas of Ganderbal district from Gund, Rayil, Kullan, Gagangeer, Sonamarg, Ganiwan and other remote areas complained of overcharging […]
300 volunteers to be trained in disaster mitigation in each district: Minister
Minister for Revenue, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, Disaster Management, Abdul Rehman Veeri today said that 300 volunteers would be trained in disaster mitigation in each district in the State. The Minister was speaking at the inauguration of 2-day Incident Response System(IRS) training programme organized by District Disaster Management Authority Srinagar in collaboration with National Disaster […]
Govt committed to provide basic amenities: Minister
Minister for Animal & Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries, Abdul Gani Kohli today said that the Government is committed to provide basic amenities to people at their door steps especially to the people living in hilly and remote areas of the State. He said several initiatives have been taken in this regard to improve, augment and […]
CUK’s capacity dev prog for outsource employees concludes
A capacity development programme organised by the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) in collaboration with Sahayata Security Services for the outsource employees concluded at the administrative cum academic block Nowgam Campus-II here today. The programme started on 10th of July 2017. Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Mehraj ud Din Mir, Director Research and Development, Prof. Muhammad Aslam, Registrar, […]
NC stages protests against civilian killings, frequent restrictions
Hundreds of National Conference (NC) workers, led by senior party leader Ali Muhammad Sagar, on Thursday staged a protest march against the civilian killings and price hike in the state. The march began from the Nawa-e-Subh complex housing the party headquarters in Srinagar and the protesters were heading towards the Governor’s House. However, as […]
NIA likely to conduct lie detection test on Hurriyat leaders
Days after the seven separatist leaders were sent to 10 days NIA-custody by a special court for interrogation, the investigating agency is mulling to conduct a lie detection test on arrested Hurriyat leaders to examine their alleged involvement in receiving funds. According to media reports, the polygraph, or lie detector test, will be conducted with […]
Zakir Musa announced as head of new al-Qaida-linked cell
An al-Qaida-affiliated propaganda channel has announced one of Kashmir’s ‘popular’ militant leaders as the head of a newly created cell in the Valley, UK based newspaper The Guardian reported. Importantly, with the announcement of Musa being head of its unit, al-Qaida has announced its operations openly in Kashmir Valley for the first time. Musa, […]
