Farooq writes to Modi, says restore 4G mobile internet services
Srinagar: A day after Kashmir Valley reported first covid-19 case, National Conference president and incumbent Lok Sabha member from Srinagar Farooq Abdullah on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to 4G internet services in Jammu & Kashmir at the earliest to “ease the suffering of the people.” “As you are […]
JK budget: Law & order, internal security situation consumes major chunk
Srinagar: Maintenance of law & order and internal security situation in Jammu & Kashmir continues to consume a major chunk of its budget as Rs 9200 crore have been proposed to be spent on Home department during the next fiscal. For 2020-21, the government has allocated 9216 crore for Home department, which is the administrative […]
Frequent transfers stall WB-funded project in JK
PMU overseeing Rs 1500 Cr mega development initiative sees 13 bosses in 5 years
Umer Maqbool Srinagar: It seems that J&K government is still struggling to implement the Rs 1500 Crore World Bank funded project as there is no end to frequent transfers of its chief executive officer (CEO). During the past five years, the Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) set-up by the government to implement mega development initiative, has […]
Coronavirus may not transmit from pregnant moms to babies: Study
Beijing: The novel coronavirus may not transmit from pregnant mothers to newborn babies at birth, according to a study published on Monday. The study is the second out of China within the last month to confirm that mothers infected with COVID-19 disease during pregnancy did not pass the virus to their babies, said researchers from […]
Coronavirus scare: Relatives of Kashmiri prisoners missing out on rendezvous
Abid Bashir Srinagar: The fast spreading deadly coronavirus has not just taken entire world by storm, but also added more to the miseries and pain of relatives of Kashmiri prisoners lodged in New Delhi’s Tihar and other prisons across India. Majority of family members of Kashmiri prisoners lodged outside J&K have decided not to visit […]
This apple is definitely sour: NAFED fails to repay farmers who sold them their produce
Shopian: Dozens of apple growers in southern Kashmir are feeling deprived as they are waiting for the payment of their produce they sold under market intervention scheme introduced by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED) last year. The growers alleged that they have received just 55 percent payment for the produce they […]
Amity: Muslim man takes care of 100 year old temple in Shopian
Shopian: In a rare exhibition of brotherhood and harmony, a 45 year old Muslim man is South Kashmir’s Shopian district looks after a 100 year old ‘Teerath Raj Kapal Mochan’ temple. Ghulam Qadir Sheikh of Digam Nagbal spends most of his time in cleaning this temple located in Devpora Nagbal Shopian on the banks of […]
130 students elbow for space in a three room school
Anantnag: A government middle school in Trajan Alsadar village of Verinag zone in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district has around 130 students but the school has only three rooms out of which one serves as an office for the school while as two rooms are used as classrooms for the students. “One might find it hard […]
‘Misuse of sedition law’: SC refuses to entertain plea seeking proper mechanism to be followed by govt’s
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking framing of a proper mechanism to deal with alleged misuse of the sedition law by the government machinery. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar dismissed the plea filed by a social activist and said it was open for the petitioner […]
