PHE workers extend ongoing strike by 72 hours across Jammu
Jammu: The Public Health Engineering (PHE) workers on Thursday extended their ongoing strike by 72 hours in support of various demands including release of pending wages and regularisation of services. The PHE workers had begun their strike on February 7. The stir has led to a drinking water crisis in most parts of the Jammu […]
LeT overground worker held in Kulgam
Srinagar: An overground worker of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit was arrested by the police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials said on Wednesday. “Police in Kulgam arrested a terrorist associate of proscribed outfit LeT. He has been identified as Zubair Ahmed Ganai,” a police spokesperson said. As per police records, Ganai has been assisting active […]
PHE workers clash with police as protest march to Raj Bhawan stopped midway
Jammu: Thousands of workers of Jammu and Kashmir’s public health engineering (PHE) department clashed with police on Wednesday as their march to Raj Bhawan here to demand pending wages was stopped midway. The workers, including casual labourers and daily wagers, began the march from the chief engineer’s office. A large contingent of police had closed […]
Water scarcity hits summer capital Srinagar
Srinagar: With summer just about to begin the people in summer capital Srinagar are already anguished with routine water scarcity. A source inside Public Health Engineering (PHE) department Rajbagh said that for the last more than two months, more than two lakh people are without water supply as government has failed to fix the breach […]
Will ensure no subversive activity takes place in J&K during Trump’s India visit: DGP
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday said it will take all measures to ensure that militants are not able to carry out any subversive activity in the Union territory during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the country next week. “We are taking all necessary measures…we are hopeful that this visit (of the […]
Residents in Ningli allege curtailment in rice quota
Sopore: Residents of Ningli area of Sopore in north Kashmir Tuesday expressed their resentment against the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CAPD) for reducing the quota of rations supplied to the locals. The locals alleged that CAPD department is reducing the ration particularly the quantity of rice compared to what was supplied few months […]
Defunct traffic lights create logjams on Srinagar roads
Srinagar: Despite claims from authorities on the improvement of traffic in summer capital Srinagar, various traffic signals on vital junctions of the city are lying defunct According to irked commuters and transporters the traffic signals which were installed at vital junctions in and around the city are either dysfunctional or displaying a faulty signal. Reports […]
ACB, CBI and ED to get officers from New Delhi
Srinagar: BJP led Central Government is mulling to go tough with corrupt politicians and bureaucrats and for the purpose, has decided to depute special officers from New Delhi in the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to take up the cases and investigate them. “Process to identify officers in […]
Massive blaze destroys five houses in old city
Srinagar: At least five residential houses were gutted in Bagi Sunder Payeen area of Chattabal in Srinagar on Tuesday morning, officials said. Five families were rendered homeless after the massive blaze broke out from one of the residential houses there. The fire spread to four other houses, leaving them completely damaged, locals said. They said […]
