Shortage of beds mars healthcare at GMC Anantnag
Srinagar: Lack of infrastructure including beds, is badly hitting the health care at Government Medical College (GMC) Anantnag. As per locals, due to lack of adequate beds, everyday doctors and paramedical staff have to face the anger of patients and attendants. Shortage of beds in the institute has been a bane and a major issue […]
JKSSB holds 165th Board meeting
Approves publishing of Naib Tehsildars' selection list
Jammu: The 165th Board meeting of the J&K Services Selection Board was held here today under the Chairmanship of Khalid Jahangir, Chairman, J&K SSB. The meeting was attended by the Members of the Board including M.Shafiq Chak, Pritam Lal Atri, Harvinder Kour, Prof. Tasleema Peer, Controller of Examination JKSSB Musheer Ahmad Mirza, Special Secretary (Legal) […]
Road mishaps leave several injured
Handwara: At least eight persons including three women were injured in a road accident that took place in Bhagatpora area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Officials said that the accident occurred when an Alto Car bearing registration number JK09-1758 hit a horse-cart in Bhagatpora area of Handwara. They said that eight persons including […]
School building damaged by land erosion in Kulagm village
Kulgam: A school building was damaged on Friday after land erosion took place in Gujjarpora village in Damhal Hanjipora area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials said, adding that no causality or injury was reported during the incident. The land erosion occurred in Gujjarpora village in Kulgam district, leaving Government School building completely damaged. An […]
Ex-MLA Gurez, Faqeer Khan resigns from PDP
Bandipora: People’s Democratic Party Zonal president and Ex-MLA Gurez Faqeer Mohammad Khan on Friday resigned from the party citing “too much crisis in the party.” Khan resigned from the basic membership of the party, saying that the party is in crisis over various issues. Faqeer Khan’s resignation from the party has come days after former […]
Khelo India Winter Games: Athletes accuse govt of denying them cash prize
Gulmarg: The award winners of the much-hyped first Khelo India Winter Games that concluded on Wednesday at famous Ski-resort Gulmarg have accused government of denying them cash prize. Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiuju had inaugurated the five-day Khelo India Winter Games at Gulmarg on March 7. The players accused authorities of […]
HC quashes OGW’s detention under PSA
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday quashed a detention order under Public Safety Act against Shahid Salam Naikoo of Bonbazar in southern Kashmir’s Shopian district for authorities go by to procedural safeguards, adherence of which are imperative in the case of preventive detention of any person. Naikoo was granted bail by court but […]
Duo quarantined at SKIMS, 1433 under surveillance: Govt
Srinagar: Two more persons with ‘symptoms resembling as that of coronovirus’ were admitted to SKIMS Soura even as 1433 people across the Jammu and Kashmir were put under surveillance. Also, officials said that test reports of 44 persons are awaited across the union territory of J&K where 1178 persons are in “home quarantine”, 17 in […]
PDP leader Qayoom Wani renounces politics
‘From a Union leader to politician to nobody’
Srinagar: PDP leader and former trade unionist Abdul Qayoom Wani on Thursday renounced politics in protest against the Centre’s decision to repeal Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into Union Territories. Wani, a trade union leader, had joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. “I am […]
Another person tests positive in Leh
Leh: One more person with travel history to Iran tested positive for coronavirus in Ladhak on Thursday, taking the total number of cases in the union territory to three, a senior government official said. His family members have been moved to the isolation centre at Heart Foundation Hospital here, they said. The man was part […]
