Come back to your minor son, pregnant wife: Budgam family to missing son
Budgam, Sep 23: Family of a youth from Central Kashmir’s Budgam district , who has joined militancy, Wednesday appealed their son to return for the sake of his pregnant wife and four-year old son. A youth Tariq Ahmed Bhat of Hanjigund Chadoora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district joined militancy recently forcing his family to […]
Lt Governor approves promotion of police officers
Jammu, Sep 23: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has regularised/promoted more than 550 officers at the level of SP and Dy. SP, and granted/predated selection grade of Dy. SP in favour of more than 300 officers, including about 440 serving officers. This humongous exercise has finally paved the way for the smooth career progression of […]
Militants attack security forces in Pulwama, no damages reported
Srinagar, Sep 23: Suspected militants on Wednesday fired upon security forces in main town Pulwama of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Official sources said that militants fired upon on security forces in main town Pulwama. However, no loss of life or injury has been reported in the incident. The area was later cordoned off to nab […]
65-year-old man critically injured in bear attack
Srinagar Sep 23: A 65-year-old man was critically injured in an bear attack in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday morning. An official identified the man as Wali Mohammad Sheikh son of Habibullah Sheikh of Dolipora village in Tehsil Villgam of the district. The sexagenarian was outside his home when the bear attacked him during […]
Turkish President Erdogan’s remarks on J&K at UNGA ‘completely unacceptable’: India
United Nations, Sep 23 (PTI) India has termed as “completely unacceptable” references to Jammu and Kashmir by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his address to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly, saying Ankara should learn to respect the sovereignty of other nations and reflect on its own policies more deeply. “We have […]
It’s ‘China virus’, not coronavirus which sounds like ‘beautiful place’ in Italy: Trump
Washington, Sep 23 (PTI) US President Donald Trump has hit out at China for not stopping the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives globally, as he yet again used the term “China virus” and urged his supporters not to call it coronavirus, saying the name sounds like a “beautiful place” in […]
Covid-19 positive woman hangs herself to death in Shimla hospital
Shimla, Sep 23 (PTI) A 54-year-old woman who had tested positive for the coronavirus last week allegedly killed herself at a hospital in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh early Wednesday, police said. The woman was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital after she tested positive for the virus on September 18, Superintendent of Police Mohit Chawla […]
Pivoting the economy
Kashmir’s economy is unique in nature. It can survive the vagaries of external pressures as it is largely dependent on the regions local production which includes agricultural produce and the handicrafts sector. However, the two sectors have been ignored and have not been able to take shape in the form of co-operatives so that the […]
Letting technology to ruin our future
Syed Tajamul Islam Reeling under bizarre covid19 atmosphere, human beings lost all its taste and colours of their outdoor life. Either they are locked and confined indoors or allowing them to march into outdoor environment with suffocating masks and preventive dress kits making them to look like aliens or somewhat whitish death angels roaming more […]
Teacher: An Agent of Transformation
Prof Rajan Kapoor The other day, I took part in an online quiz. There were a few questions the answers of which were not known to me. I did not attempt those questions and submitted the test. As expected, I failed to qualify the test. After a few minutes, one of my colleagues, who appeared […]