SKIMS celebrate World Diabetes Day
Srinagar: Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences organized World Diabetes Day celebrations at the SKIMS auditorium on Wednesday. The event focused on creating awareness about diabetes, particularly in children. The event started with registration, blood tests and anthropometry of the patients. To stress the importance of life style modification in the management of diabetes, a physical […]
JK lacks in Oro-dental health care, says DAK
Pitches for creation of new dental surgeon posts
Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Wednesday held a meeting which was attended by its core and executive members and was headed by President DAK Dr Suahil Naik. The core agenda of meet was poor Oro-dental care and facilities in state of Jammu and Kashmir, a DAK statement said. Keeping in view the increasing number of patients […]
Three missing Punjab residents found dead under landslide debris
Banihal: Three Punjab residents, including a father-son duo, who had gone missing last week following a landslide on Jammu-Srinagar national highway, were found dead under the debris Wednesday, police said. Search teams recovered the bodies from the landslide site at Battery Cheshma along Banihal-Ramban stretch after a hectic 10-day search, a police official said. He […]
Drug peddler among five detained
Jammu: Five persons, including a suspected drug peddler, have been taken into preventive custody in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Payar Hussain, a resident of KoteDabbar village, was detained in Nowshera area of the district and lodged in district jail, a police spokesman said. Hussain is a notorious drug peddler cum […]
Woman held along with 10 grenades, ammunition
Srinagar: Police on Tuesday said that it has arrested a woman along with 10 grenades from Lawaypora area on the outskirts of Srinagar city. “Today evening upon receipt of reliable information that some OGWs is coming from Baramulla towards Srinagar with ammunition, a naka was laid opposite Kirmaniabad shrine near Lawaypora,” a police official said. […]
PaK woman married to a local here elected Sarpanch
Srinagar: A woman from Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) has been elected unopposed as Sarpanch and Panch in Khumriyal area of north Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district. Arifa Begum (35) had come to this part of Kashmir along with her husband Ghulam Mohammad Mir via Nepal in 2010. Arifa, originally a resident of Palandari village in Muzaffarabad […]
Authorities issues avalanche warning
SRINAGAR: As per a communication of Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, there is a danger of avalanches from 12thNovember 2018 to 13th November 2018 in avalanche prone areas of Bandipora, Baramulla, Anantnag, Kulgam, Budgam, Kupwara, Ganderbal, Leh and Kargil districts of Kashmir Division. The Deputy Commissioners of the concerned districts have been asked to advise people not […]
Geelani’s son-in-law dies, amalgam shocked
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) on Tuesday expressed deep shock over the demise of son-in-law of its chairman Syed Ali Geelani, Ghulam Hassan Makdoomi of DooruSopore. Hurriyat (G) spokesman in a statement issued here said that the eldest son-in-law of Geelani expired this afternoon in SKIMS Soura, he was suffering from cancer and was admitted in […]
Weather prediction: Plains to witness rains, moderate snowfall
Srinagar: As the weather remained cloudy, the weatherman here has predicted light to moderate rainfall across Kashmir on Tuesday and Wednesday, saying that the higher reaches may experience snowfall. Director Meteorological (MeT) department, Sonum Lotus said that there is possibility of light to moderate rainfall in the plains on Tuesday and Wednesday. He said that […]
Panchayat ghar set ablaze in Anantnag
Srinagar: A panchayat ghar was set ablaze allegedly by some unidentified miscreants in Anantnag district of south Kashmir Sunday night, police said. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the flames, they said. “Some miscreants set a panchayat ghar at Brakpora, in the south Kashmir district, on fire,” said a police official. He […]