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 […]
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 […]