Govt fails to reconstruct schools torched during 2016 unrest
Srinagar: Despite the passage of more than one year, the school education department is yet to start reconstruction and renovation of the school buildings torched by arsonists during the 2016 summer agitation. As per the official figures, around 32 school buildings were partially and completely damaged after being put to flames by unidentified arsonists people […]
PDP is a creation of agencies, says Hurriyat (G)
Srinagar: Separatist Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday said that the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), is a creation of Indian agencies. Lashing at PDP, Hurriyat (G) said that this party is the creation of agencies and its rhetoric for battle of ideas stand exposed as they have left no […]
Malfunctioning elevators in LD hospital ‘shut’ after 4 PM
Srinagar: Kashmir’s only maternity hospital Govt Lalla Ded hospital has been struggling with erring elevators from last few months and now the hospital administration has made it a point that the elevators are shut after 4 in the evening. The elevators are situated at a spot that receives a rush of emergency patients, who are […]
Police names Hizb militant Saddam Padder in army man’s murder
Srinagar: Police Wednesday claimed to have cracked the murder case of Irfan Dar who was working with 175 Territorial Army. Dar was killed on November 24 last month after he was kidnapped from his home in Shopian in South Kashmir where he had gone to spend his holidays. The investigation conducted so far has revealed […]
Five injured in Hajin after Army allegedly goes ‘berserk’
Hajin: At least five people were injured after forces used pellets and tear-smoke shells to disperse stone-throwers while army soldiers went on rampage in different localities of Hajin town of Bandipora district. Reports said that Army soldiers from 13 Rashtriya Rifles were on a patrol when a couple of youth pelted stones on them. According […]
Estimates Committee for surveys of ignored tourist destinations
Jammu: Estimates Committee of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly today asked the Secretary Tourism Department to conduct a fresh survey to identify left out and ignored tourist destinations before implementation of new Tourism Policy in the state so that the people living in those areas would be benefitted. The meeting of the Committee held under […]
Editorial: Prof. Bhat’s quest
Srinagar: Did former Hurriyat Chairman and head of Muslim Conference, Professor Abdul Gani Bath meet the Government of India’s interlocutor for Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma? This question has the been at the center of political conversations in Kashmir for last few days. After the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), had categorically rejected any possibilities of engagement with […]
Dy CM reviews power scenario, calls for reducing T&D losses
Srinagar: Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today called for making concerted efforts to reduce the transmission and distribution losses in the electricity sector and continuous innovations in work execution to improve overall power scenario in the Valley. The Deputy Chief Minister, who is also Minister for Power Development and Housing & Urban Development, said […]
Minister distributes 111 Bicycles, 4 Auto Rikhshaws among fishermen
Jammu: Minister for Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries, Abdul Gani Kohli has stressed for providing proper guidance, awareness about fish farming among the farmers so that they can be benefitted from various flagship programmes. The Minister said this while speaking at a concluding function held in connection with 3-Day Skill Development Programme on composite Fish […]
Dy CM reviews progress on AMRUT projects in Srinagar
Srinagar: Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today convened a meeting to review the status of projects in Srinagar city-funded under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) which are being executed by Urban Environmental Engineering Department (UEED). Minister of State for Housing & Urban Development, Asiea Naqash and Minister of State for […]
