Bear attacks man in Kangan, leaves him injured
Ganderbal: A 35-year old man was critically injured on Saturday after a wild bear attacked him in Machkani Wanghat area of Kangan Tehsil of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. Police sources said that the 35-year-old man identified as Irshad Ahmad Kalas son of Mohammad Ayoub Kalas resident of Machkani Wanghat was attacked by a wild bear […]
MERC hosts Data Leads ‘Vax-Check-Kashmir’ webinar
Experts discuss problem of vaccine ‘infodemic’, strategies to fight it
Srinagar: Media Education Research Center (MERC), University of Kashmir on Saturday hosted a webinar titled “VaxCheck Kashmir” during which experts helped the participants to learn how to combat the vaccine-related misinformation and false claims. The training is a Google News Initiative, in partnership with DataLEADS, which is organizing this special fact-checking “Town Hall series” in […]
JAKFA welcomes appointment of Dr Mehta as CS
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Finance and Accounts Society (JAKFA) has welcomed the decision of the Government for appointing Dr.Arun Kumar Mehta, as Chief Secretary. Dr Mehta’s iconic personality has been successful in bringing about satisfactory levels of transparency by introducing plethora of path-breaking initiatives as Finance Commissioner, Finance Department. The JAKFA president Rafiq Ahmad said […]
Address all the papers, files to newly appointed CS: Govt to departments
Srinagar/Jammu: The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has directed all the administrative to address all the papers and files to newly appointed Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta with effect from May 31, 2021. A Government Order No. 474-JK (GAD) of 2021 Dated: 29-05-2021, a copy of which lies in possession of GNS, states that “Consequent […]
Police book three Shopian youth ‘involved’ in IED blast
Shopian: Police booked three youth from Shopian district in connection with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast. Notably, militants on 16 May month had detonated an IED when an army patrolling party from 44 Rashtriya Rifles were moving towards Trukwangam village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Sources said that police have booked three youth for […]
Woman ends life in Ganderbal
Ganderbal: A 36-year-old woman committed suicide by jumping into river Sindh in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Saturday. An official said that soon after the lady jumped into river Sindh locals tried to save her, but failed. “After sometime her body was recovered and it was later brought to SDH Kangan for postmortem,” he added. […]
Covid-19: JK registers 2,803 new cases of COVID-19, 56 deaths
Srinagar: The COVID-19 infection tally in Jammu and Kashmir rose by 2,803 in a day to reach 2,84,431 while 56 fatalities during the same period took the death toll to 3,795, officials said on Friday. Of the fresh cases, 1,009 were from the Jammu division and 1,794 from the Kashmir division, they said. The officials […]