Encounter fallout: Internet services snapped, schools closed
Srinagar: Authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of schools and colleges in Srinagar besides snapping of the mobile internet services in Srinagar following the gunfight that is raging in Fatehkadal area of Srinagar city. An official said that mobile Internet services were snapped in the district as a “precautionary measure”. Reports said a joint team […]
Gunfight rages in old city area of Srinagar
Srinagar: A gunfight rages in Fateh Kadal area of Srinagar district early Wednesday morning between militants and government forces. Reports said that a joint team of Police and CRPF on specific information about presence of some militants cordoned off Fateh Kadal. As soon as government forces zeroed on to the suspected house, the hiding militants […]
Curtains fall on Urban Local Bodies polls
Valley records 4.2 pc turnout in fourth phase
Valley records 4.2 pc turnout in fourth phase
Zero turnout in Srinagar’s Soura ward
Srinagar: Three candidates, an electorate of 11,265 but not a single vote cast through the day. That was the ‘zero sum’ story of Srinagar Municipal Corporation’s Soura ward in the fourth and final phase of elections to Jammu and Kashmir’s urban local bodies Tuesday. Although low voter turnout in Srinagar and many other parts of […]
4.2% polling recorded in final phase: CEO
SRINAGAR: The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) J&K, Shaleen Kabra said that overall 4.2% polling was witnessed in the 4th and Final Phase of Municipal Polls-2018 in Srinagar and Ganderbal on Tuesday. Kabra said Ganderbal witnessed 11.3% polling in 12 Wards were 38 candidates are in the fray. He said Srinagar witnessed 4% polling were 24 […]
Article 35A, 370 were a non-issue in ULB polls: Guv Malik
Says NC, PDP shouldn't have boycotted the elections
Srinagar: The NC and the PDP should not have boycotted the civic polls, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said Tuesday, asserting that articles 35A and 370 of the Constitution were non-issues in this election. The National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had announced not to contest the polls over the […]
Overall poll percentage was 35.1 %: Govt
Srinagar: The four-phase polling for all 79 urban local bodies in Jammu and Kashmir ended Tuesday, recording an overall 35.1 per cent voter turnout in the state. The turnout for the final phase of elections, which was held only for two municipal bodies in Kashmir, remained low as usual at 4.2 per cent. “The overall […]
Feeble healthcare: Shortage of Nursing staff hits operations in govt hospitals
Srinagar: The healthcare system in Jammu and Kashmir may have little to rejoice amid ‘severe’ shortage of nursing staff and on top of it the ‘spine-breaking’ workload which the public health care system is currently struggling with. As per figures available with Kashmir Vision, the total number of staff nurses required as per Indian Public […]
AMU revokes suspension orders against Kashmiri students
Srinagar: Hours after Governor Satya Pal Malik spoke with Union Minister and authorities at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the suspension orders against two Kashmiri students was revoked on Tuesday evening. Reports said that that the varsity administration revoked suspension and sedition charges against Kashmiri students following the students threatened to quit en masse. The students […]
Normal life in poll bound areas witness disruptions
Srinagar: Normal life was affected in poll-bound areas of Kashmir Valley Tuesday due to a strike called by separatists against the conduct of urban local body polls in the state. Shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut in poll-bound areas of Ganderbal and Srinagar the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. […]
