Administration imposes Covid-19 restrictions across Kupwara

KUPWARA: The District Administration Kupwara is successfully implementing the restrictions imposed as per the guidelines of the Government to contain the ill effects of Covid-19 pandemic in the district. The Magistrates, police officers and Team ARTO were seen on roads to implement the restrictions across the district, an official spokesman said. 50 percent shops in […]

LMD collects penal sum of 7 lacs from erring Traders

SRINAGAR: The field executives of Legal Metrology Department (LMD) intensified the market inspections across the valley and recovered a penal sum of over Rs 7 lacs from the erring traders, an official spokesman said. The department conducted 1814 market inspections to detect the violations and booked 272 erring traders for violating Legal Metrology Laws. The […]

Formulation, implementation of District Development Plan finalized at B’gam

BUDGAM: A meeting cum workshop to discuss formulation and implementation of District Development plan was convened here Thursday under the Chairmanship of DDC Chairman, Nazir Ahmad Khan and District Development Commissioner Budgam Shahbaz Ahmed Mirza here. Vice Chairman DDC Budgam Nazir Ahmad Jahra, BDC President Gh Hassan Khan all elected DDCs and BDCs also joined […]

Transfer non-local 10+2 lecturers from Ladakh to JK: Masoodi

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference MP Justice (Retd) Hasnain Masoodi on Thursday sought transfer of 10+2 non local lecturers from Ladakh to Jammu and Kashmir, saying the delayed transfer is taking a heavy toll on them. Masoodi said this after meeting scores of delegations, who had called on him at his residence. He assured […]

DC Srinagar interacts with religious leaders, Ulemas

Seeks their cooperation in Covid-19 containment

SRINAGAR: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Mohammed Aijaz Asad Thursday held an interactive meeting with prominent religious leaders, Imams, Khateebs, Auqaf members, with an aim to seek their opinion to sensitize the people about the pandemic and the SOPs to be followed in Covid-19 containment. CEO Wakaf Board, Mufti Fareed u Din and Additional Deputy […]

Ladakh reports 183 new COVID-19 cases

Leh: The Union territory of Ladakh has reported 183 new cases of coronavirus, taking the virus tally to 12739, officials said. Ladakh had recorded a total of 134 COVID-related deaths till now, they said. While 171 cases were reported from Leh, 12 positive cases were received from Kargil, they said. The total number of active […]

BJP leader who returned from Kumbh Mela dies of Covid-19

Jammu: Days after returning from Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand, senior BJP leader and former member of the erstwhile Legislative Assembly of J&K state, Thakur Puran Singh died in Rajouri on Thursday. Following Singh’s death, “suspected to be due to covid-19”, the administration in Rajouri has ordered his cremation strictly as per the health department’s protocol […]

Wife killed husband with paramour’s help: Police

Srinagar: More than a month after death of a 34-year-old man at Renji Pattan, police on Thursday claimed to have worked out the case by arresting his wife and another person, alleged paramour of the woman, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. “On intervening night of 8/9th March one Mohammad Altaf Malik son Ghulam Rasool Malik […]