Tasaduq Mufti meets Mehbooba
Srinagar: Tasaduq Mufti Tuesday met former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who is lodged at a government quarter in Srinagar. Sources said that the incarcerated PDP President and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti received her brother Tasaduq Mufti. Tasaduq Mufti arrived here at around noon and stayed with his sister for over an […]
KU to take call on ‘missed’ exams
Srinagar: Kashmir University is yet to conduct examination for the scores of students from Banihal area who had missed their examination paper in the last week of December last year due to heavy snowfall. These students mostly females were supposed to appear in the 5th semester Botany paper but failed to make it up to […]
Woman killed by paramour in JK
Jammu: A woman was reportedly murdered by her paramour after she blackmailed him for money in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, police said on Tuesday. The accused Aatma Ram has been arrested, they said. According to the police, Anita Devi (40), wife of Nirmal Chandra, was in an illicit relationship with Ram. She allegedly threatened […]
Police to procure 50 hi-tech UAVs
Procurement of modern gadgets only to increase technical, operational capacity of force
Nasir Azam Srinagar: After floating tenders to procure the first helicopter and Remote operating Vehicles (RoVs), the Jammu and Kashmir police is all set to receive the maiden and fresh consignment of Unarmed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to give boost to its aerial surveillance in J&K Union Territory (UT). The Jammu and Kashmir police is set […]
Kishen Ganga wildlife sanctuary project awaits official nod
‘J&K Govt yet to notify proposed area despite joint inspection seven years ago’
Ejaz-ul-haq Bhat Bandipora: The proposed Kishen Ganga Wildlife Sanctuary project is in limbo despite getting a nod from the Government of India to declare compartments of Gurez Forest Range of Forest Territorial Division Bandipora as “Wildlife Protected Area” since the area has rich flora and fauna. These compartments included compartment number: k/42, k/45, k/46, k/47a, […]
Six residential houses collapse due to landslides in Kreeri village
Sopore: At least six residential houses have collapsed due landslides in Sheikhpora area of Kreeri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district during last Saturday night, officials said. The houses developed cracks as soon as landslides were reported ion the area during the night on Saturday. Locals said that during midnight there was a rumbling noise which […]
Massive blaze damages two houseboats, residential hutment
Srinagar: At least two houseboats and a residential hutment were gutted in the world famous Dal Lake on Monday. The tentative loss figure figured out by the House Boat Owners Association (HBOA) is more than rupees one crore. Witnesses said that the fire broke out at Konakhan area of famous Dal Lake, in the afternoon […]
Naina Pulwama faces acute shortage of potable water
Pulwama: Residents of Naina village in Litter Tehsil of Pulwama district are facing acute shortage of drinking water as according to locals authorities have failed to provide water supply to the area. According to locals a water supply scheme was started in year 2007 in a nearby village Batpora to provide drinking water to Batpora […]
Pulwama boy bags Silver Medal in State level championship
Srinagar: An athlete from Pulwama has won Silver medal in State level Taekwondo championship held in Jammu and is all set to represent JK at National level. Athlete Hafiz Mohammed Asif son of Mohammad Ramzan Bhat resident of Naina Batpora in Pulwama district has been selected to represent JK at the national level, his family […]
