District Library Pulwama short of books, staff

Pulwama: Located in the heart of Pulwama town and besides a higher Secondary School named after renowned Kashmiri poet, Mehjoor, the District library Pulwama lacks the collection of latest books. Readers complained that the library, which has over 3500 borrowers “lacks latest books related to Science, Technology and Computer. They also rued the absence of […]

Fruit traders protest against highway restrictions

Sopore: Demanding immediate revocation of restrictions on Kashmir highway in the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, Fruit traders at Asia’s second largest Fruit Mandi at apple town Sopore protested on Wednesday. Scores of members of fruit growers and dealers association and members of Buyers Union led by President Fayaz Ahmad Malik and Buyers’ Union President Mudasir Ahmad […]

Congress won’t be cowed down by false propaganda: G A Mir

‘Rahul Gandhi role model for congressmen’

Dooru: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G A Mir has said that Congress won’t be cowed down by the “false and fictitious propaganda” and it had the potential to “defeat the divisive and misleading politics by the BJP RSS”. Mir also said that Rahul Gandhi will continue to be the “role model […]

Advisor Ganai approves expansion plan for ESIC in its 16th Board meeting

SRINAGAR: Advisor to Governor, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, Wednesday approved a massive expansion plan of Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for implementation during the next financial year. The decision in this regard was taken in the 16th regional board meeting of ESIC held under his chairmanship. The regional chapter was asked to gear up for reaching […]

‘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 […]