Srinagar, Apr 24: Authorities in Srinagar on Saturday ordered closure of J&K Bank branch Qamarwari, for at least five days after nine of its staff members tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday. An official told a news agency that on the directions of the Deputy Commissioner and DDMA Chairman Srinagar, the branch has been closed […]
BUDGAM, 24th APRIL: Budgam Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two timber Smugglers along with illicit timber carried on 04 horses. Acting on a specific information about timber smuggling, a naka was established by Police during intervening night of 23/24 April at sugen Bathipora forest area of Khag. During Naka, police party of PS […]
Delhi: World Health Organization said, over one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, about 90 percent of the countries surveyed still report disruptions to their essential health services, the All India Radio (AIR) reported. A recent WHO survey has found that about 66 percent of countries continue to report health workforce-related reasons as the most common […]
Bandipora, Apr 23: A 27-year-old youth from Kangan area of Ganderbal died under mysterious circumstances in Gurez tehsil of North kashmir’s Bandipora district last night, however, his body has not reached his ancestral home due to closure of Bandipora-Gurez road. An official told a news agency that the deceased has been identified as Javid Ahmad […]
Srinagar, Apr 23: Army on Friday said that its troops from the Siachen brigade rescued at least 18 civilians and some vehicles after they got stuck in heavy snowfall at North Pullu and Khardung La Top. “On April 21 evening, due to heavy snowfall, vehicle traffic was disrupted along the route from North Pullu – […]
Srinagar, Apr 23: The Law Enforcement wing of the Agriculture department in separate raids this year have seized 15,000 Kgs of spurious pesticides in the summer capital of Srinagar alone, officials said. Senior officials within the law enforcement wing of agriculture said that first Mancozeb 75 percent wp batch no M-152/038 with manufacturing date 04 […]
WASHINGTON: NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has made oxygen from the planet’s carbon dioxide atmosphere, the All India Radio (AIR) reported. It is the second successful technology demonstration on the mission, which flew a mini-helicopter last Friday. The report said the generation of oxygen was performed by a toaster-sized unit in the rover called Moxie […]
Srinagar, April 23: Jammu and Kashmir reported 1937 fresh covid-19 cases while 19 people succumbed to the virus, the highest so far this year, officials said on Friday. They said 846 of the cases were confirmed from Jammu Division and 1091 from Kashmir in the last 24 hours, taking the total case tally to 156344. […]
Srinagar April 23: Former Legislator and leader of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) Mohammad Khurshid Alam has expressed serious concern over the recent government order about the creation of task force to terminate the government employees without any inquiry, terming such an order traumatising and humiliating for government employees in Jammu and Kashmir at […]
Srinagar 23 April : Amid incessant rains in the valley, the Directorate of Horticulture Kashmir on Friday issued an advisory for Apple growers and asked them to use a spray of fungicides. An advisory issued by Director Horticulture said due to incessant rains several measures are suggested. He said that Consequent upon the recent incessant […]
