‘JK achieves SDG goal for under 5 mortality rate, 11 years ahead of proposed target’

SRINAGAR: Continuing its efforts towards reduction of Child Mortality Indicators, the State of Jammu and Kashmir has registered a significant decline in the Under 5 Mortality Rate from 26 to 24 as per latest Sample Registration System (SRS 2017) data issued by Registrar General of India. The current national average of Under 5 mortality rate […]

PUF sit-in seeking tunnel for Karnah, Gurez enters second day

Seeks immediate enquiry into electrocution of three innocents in Tangdar

Srinagar: The sit-in organized by People United Front (PUF) seeking tunnel for Karnah and Gurez entered its second day on Wednesday. AIP President Er Rasheed said that government must listen to peaceful voices and said that “If such voices go unheard it will create serious negative ramifications”. “While masses need to speak in one voice […]

Govt to setup 100 veterinary polyclinics in JK: Samoon

Initiative aims to give flip to livestock sector

SRINAGAR: The Department of Animal Husbandry is going to establish 100 veterinary polyclinics in the first phase of an innovative initiative to strengthen the livestock infrastructure in the State. Principal Secretary, Animal, Sheep and Fisheries Department Dr Asghar Hassan Samoon today reviewed preparedness for the initiative during a meeting to take stock of the departmental […]

APDP welcomes UN Report on ‘HR violations’

Srinagar: Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has welcomed the recent human rights report of the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the situation of human rights in Kashmir. In a statement issued to press, APDP while welcoming the said UN report has demanded whereabouts of the disappeared persons […]

PDP demands release of Hurriyat spokesperson

Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party demanded on Wednesday the immediate release of hardline Hurriyat Conference spokesperson Ayaz Akbar on humanitarian grounds so that he could attend his wife who is suffering from a life-threatening disease. “Akbar’s wife is battling serious ailment and needs her husband by her side at present,” PDP state secretary Noor Mohammad Sheikh […]

KPs throng three ancient temples in Kulgam

Kulgam: Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits Tuesday thronged the three ancient temples in militancy-infested Kulgam district of South Kashmir The payed obeisance at Mata Katayani temple in Kakran, Mata Ragniya Bhagwati (Kheerbhawani) at Manzgam and Mata Kulwagishori temple early Tuesday morning and took part in the Yagyas there on the occasion of ‘Haar Ashtami.’ The temples […]

Three drug peddlers held in Sopore, Ganderbal

Sopore/ Ganderbal: Police on Wednesday arrested 3 drug peddlers in Sopore and Ganderbal districts. While two of them were arrested in Sopore, the 3rd drug peddler was arrested in Ganderbal. In Sopore, the duo-Abdul Hameed Mir and Bilal Ahmed Chopan both residents of Janwara Sopore- was arrested at a checkpoint at Warpora. They have been […]

Youth interaction held in Srinagar

Srinagar: Police in Srinagar Wednesday organised a youth interaction session at Burn Hall School, Sonwar. The focus of the programme was to provide insight to the students about the repercussion of drug addiction and its harmful effects on development of our youth and social fabric. Starting the session, SDPO Nehru Park spoke about the prevalence […]

Sarita Chouhan, Vijay Dhar meet Governor

SRINAGAR: Sarita Chouhan, Secretary School Education and Vijay Dhar, Member Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, met Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan here on Wednesday. Chouhan briefed Governor about various initiatives taken for strengthening of school education infrastructure in the state with emphasis on adequate staff positioning and strict adherence to the […]