Killing of a cop: On father’s day, two more siblings are orphaned
Srinagar: In a tragic coincidence, one-year-old Daamin and four-year-old Uhbaan lost their father, Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Arshad Ahmed Khan, on a Father’s Day. As the body of Khan, who breathed his last at AIIMS in Delhi on Sunday evening, was brought to the police lines here on Monday, Uhbaan was unable to gauge […]
Education dept fails to appoint heads of higher secondary schools
Srinagar: Exposing the laxity of the school education department to fill key positions in the schools, around 15 out of 26 higher secondary schools in Bandipora district are headless from the past several months while as the authorities are unmoved to fill-in the pots of the Principals in the district. The headless government higher secondary […]
Attack on medicos: SC to hear plea for safety today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear on June 18 a plea seeking safety and security of doctors in government hospitals across the country. A vacation bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant agreed to list the matter for Tuesday after the counsel appearing for the petitioner, advocate Alakh Alok […]
Sordid saga: Poverty forces Pakistani women to ‘fake’ marriages in China
Faisalabad: At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldn’t bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say was that her new husband a Chinese man her family sold her off to in marriage was torturing her. Eventually she broke down and […]
Plugging the loopholes
When Union Minister of State for Shipping (Independent Charge) and Chemical & Fertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya visited the state last week, there was hardly any rumble of the event. Even some local news organizations reported the visit in some inner pages and the state government too did not bother to publicize his visit. However, given the […]
This Shopian village has no potable water
Shopian: Kumdalan village barely 10 kms from main town Shopian is yet to get drinking water facility with locals being forced to consume contaminated water of a local canal. The village comprises of over 300 households. Locals from the village alleged that the government had “ignored the area completely and left it without any drinking […]
Officials directed to fast pace environmental conservation projects
SRINAGAR: The Advisor to Governor K K Sharma Monday directed the officers to ensure that the ecological concerns in consonance with the local landscape and environment are taken into consideration while undertaking conservation of environment and water bodies maintaining that these should be fast paced. The Advisor was reviewing the progress of work on the […]
