Woman gives birth to triplets at LD Hospital

Srinagar: A woman from south Kashmir give birth to triplet at Valley’s prime maternity specialty, Lal Ded hospital here in Srinagar city. Medical Superintendent Lal Ded Hospital Dr Shabir Sidiqui said that such incidents are common at this maternity hospital. “A woman even give birth to quintuplets here in the hospital. Today a woman from […]

Two held for alleged role in burglary at Kupwara

Kupwara: Two persons have been arrested by police on Saturday for allegedly committing burglary in Kralpora area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district earlier this week. A police official said that on receiving a complaint from one Gowhar Ahmad Tanzoo, a resident of Dardsun Kralpora alleging theft of mobile phones and other paraphernalia from his shop […]

Meticulous estimation, speedy execution of works pivotal for development: Official

Reviews ongoing development works, projects in Anantnag

ANANTNAG: Secretary in Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Rifat Arif, on Saturday maintained that meticulous planning and estimation besides speedy execution of works is pivotal for development of rural areas. Rifat said this while chairing a meeting held to review development and wage employment works undertaken by RDD in Anantnag. The meeting was attended by […]

Toddler crawls into water in Shopian, drowns

Shopian: A one-year-old boy from of a nomad family drowned in Nallah Rambiara in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. They said that the boy son of Mohammad Rafeeq crawled into the river from the tent put up by his family near the water body. By the time family reacted, the boy […]

NIT Srinagar launches ‘Visit to Village’ flagship program

Srinagar: To expose its students, Director National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, Prof. Rakesh Seghal Saturday launched a V2V (Visit to Village) flagship program undertaken by Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship Development (IIED) centre of the Institute. Director NIT Srinagar, Prof. Sehgal said the unique program undertaken by IIED Centre of NIT Srinagar with an objective […]

Police arrests 11 drug peddlers in south Kashmir

Srinagar: Police have arrested eleven drug peddlers in Anantnag and Kulgam and recovered contraband substances from their possession, a police spokesman said. He said that police officials at a checkpoint established at Larkipora intercepted two persons identified as Bashir Ahmed Mir son of Abdul Khaliq Mir resident of Sadoora and Zahoor Ahmed Shah son of […]

Justice Wani visits Court Complex Shopian

SHOPIAN: Justice Javid Iqbal Wani, Judge Common High Court of U.T of Jammu andKashmir and Ladakh and Administrative Judge District Shopian Saturday visited District Court Complex Shopian to review its functioning. On his arrival, the Justice was presented guard of honour after which he inaugurated Vidhik Sewa Kendra, and interacted with the judicial Officers, district […]

DDC Srinagar visits Gilsar, Babademb, inspects ongoing restoration works

SRINAGAR: In order to speed up the ongoing process of rejuvenation and restoration of Water bodies in the district, the District Development Commissioner (DDC) Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad Saturday visited under restoration Gilsar Lake and Babademb. The DDC inspected the restoration works undertaken for cleaning of these water bodies to revive their decades old glory. […]

Three Day workshop on ‘Robotic Surgery’ concludes at GMC Sgr

SRINAGAR: A three days hands on training Robotic Surgery workshop organised by the Department of Surgery, Government Medical College Srinagar concluded with lot of hope, optimism and enthusiasm among the delegates. The robotic surgery being the latest innovation in the field of minimal access surgery remains largely unavailable to the people of valley who are […]