Leopard kills 2-year-old baby in Kulgam
Kulgam: In a shocking incident, a leopard dragged out a two-year-old baby from his house and mauled him to death in Damhal Hanjipora area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday morning. Official sources said that a leopard appeared in Gujarbasti Korial village of Damhal Hanjipora in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district and pounced upon a […]
Private schools granted Affiliation extension by JKBoSE
JAMMU: Affiliation Committee of J&K Board of School Education (JKBoSE) today granted extension to private schools. A meeting of the Committee, chaired by the JKBOSE chairperson Prof. Veena Pandita, considered 211 cases of Private Academic Institution of Kashmir and Jammu Divisions for extension and up-gradation which includes 64 of Kashmir Division and 147 of Jammu […]
Baseer Khan reviews working of RDD, PDD, assess COVID control measures
BUDGAM: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, Tuesday conducted a day long extensive tour of various areas of Budgam district including Airport Humhama, Shiekhpora, Karipora and Sebden. The tour was aimed to have an on spot assessment of various initiatives launched by the district administration Budgam with regard to development activities in these areas. […]
COVID-19: Govt evacuates 1,42,895 stranded JK residents
99,010 via Lakhanpur, 43,885 through special trains
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 1,42,895 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, the Jammu […]
LAWDA resumes dredging of Brari Numbal Lagoon
SRINAGAR: Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) resumes dredging of Brari Numbal Lagoon in Shahr-e-.Khass after getting suspended due to the spread of Covid-19. The Vice Chairman, LDA Tufail Matto flanked by engineering wing team today took stock of the works under execution on his visit to Lagoon. He said around 20,000 Cums are expected […]
Historic Mughal road reopens for one-way traffic
Srinagar: One-way traffic for vehicles carrying fruit and essential commodities was resumed on historic 86-km-long historic Mughal road after remaining suspended for about six months due to accumulation of snow. An official spokesman said no passenger traffic will be allowed on the road which connects Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu […]
Mother, daughter drowns in Jhelum
Anantnag: Mother and her daughter drowned in river Jhelum in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday afternoon. Locals said that Saleema Banoo wife of Ghulam Hassan Dar and her daughter drowned in Jhelum at Marhama village. Saleema according to witnesses was washing clothes on the banks of the river while her 12 year […]
Sarpanch’s killing: HC directs petitioner to withdraw plea seeking CBI probe
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court directed a Kashmiri Pandit on Tuesday to withdraw his petition seeking a CBI probe into the killing of a sarpanch by unidentified gunmen, as he had sought to make the lieutenant governor of the Union Territory a party to the case. “I was told by the court to […]
People not wearing face masks is admin’s failure: DAK
Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Tuesday strongly condemned the irresponsible behaviour of Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag as the latter has suspended one medico Dr Nisar Ahmed, currently posted PHC Sadiwara. President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said the said doctor has been relentlessly working during the Covid-19 crisis and by just objecting to not seeing a patient […]
JK Media Guild calls media policy as ‘unethical, undemocratic’, calls for protest
Srinagar: JK Media Guild, executive council, on Tuesday held an extra ordinary session in Srinagar and unanimously denounced the J&K Government for its “unethical, immoral and undemocratic” media policy announced on 2nd June 2020. The executive council, which met under the chairmanship of president Mir Ajaz Ahmad and was attended by Vice President, Bilal Bazaz, […]
