4 Forest Officials Accused of Delinquency, Connivance Suspended in Kupwara

4 Forest Officials Accused of Delinquency, Connivance Suspended in Kupwara

Kupwara, May 16: Deputy Director Forest Protection Force – K-06 Natnussa – has put on suspension four staffers, pending enquiry, on accusations of delinquency and connivance after the department officials seized a tractor alongwith illicit timber from Compartment number 21 at FPF Gama Unit in Natnussa earlier this week.  A suspension order states that the […]

Professor Central University Jammu dies of Covid-19

Professor Central University Jammu dies of Covid-19

Jammu, May 16: Central University Jammu (CUJ) Professor Dr Dharmendra Singh, Head & Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communications & New Media, died of Covid-19 at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital Jaipur. Registrar Central University Jammu while confirming his death said Singh was a luminary and his death is a great loss to the University particularly to […]

Mughal Road To Open For Fruit Trucks, Movement Of Gujjar-Bakerwals

Mughal Road To Open For Fruit Trucks, Movement Of Gujjar-Bakerwals

Poonch, May 16: Mughal Road, connecting Poonch and Shopian districts of south Kashmir, shall open for fruit trucks and for the movement of Gujjar-Bakerwals, officials said on Sunday. Deputy Commissioner Poonch Inder Jeet said that traffic department shall decide about the one-way movement. “It is being opened up for the movement of fruit trucks and […]

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 149 including 41 children

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 149 including 41 children

  Jerusalem: Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has entered its seventh consecutive day, with air raids in the early hours of Sunday killing at least four Palestinians, wounding dozens more and flattening at least two residential buildings, the AlJazeera reported.  The home of Gaza’s Hamas chief, Yehya al-Sinwar, was also targeted, according to the […]

Senior Scientist at Kashmir University succumbs to Covid-19

Senior Scientist at Kashmir University succumbs to Covid-19

Srinagar, May 16: Eminent Professor and senior scientist who was presently serving as senior Professor at Department of Electronics Kashmir University Prof. Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat passed away at Rainawari Hospital Srinagar due to Covid-19 complications.  His colleagues said he had been admitted at JLNM hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 two weeks ago, but due […]

Police arrest Ashraf Sehrai’s two sons from Srinagar

Police arrest Ashraf Sehrai’s two sons from Srinagar

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday evening arrested two sons of late Tehreek-i-Hurriyat Chairman, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, who passed away on May 5 at Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu while facing detention under Public Safety Act (PSA). Family sources said that the two sons of late Sehrai were arrested from their Bulbul Bagh […]

Authorities seal eight chemist shops for violating covid norms during surprise inspection in Srinagar

Authorities seal eight chemist shops for violating covid norms during surprise inspection in Srinagar

SRINAGAR, MAY 15: The Deputy Commissioner/ District Magistrate Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad today ordered for immediate suspension of operations of 8 Chemist Shops in Srinagar for contravention of rules like the absence of qualified persons, not maintaining sale purchase records, unhygienic conditions, cold storage drugs not maintained properly, records of psychotropic drugs not maintained in […]

Four forest employees injured in attack by timber smugglers in Budgam

Four forest employees injured in attack by timber smugglers in Budgam

Budgam, May 15: Four forest employees who covered 10 kilometres by foot during the night hours to catch the smugglers were injured in a counter attack at Jabbad block of Doodhganga forest range in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. An official said that on Saturday late evening, after receiving the information that some jungle smugglers are […]

Sarjan Barkati arrested after Eid speech

Sarjan Barkati arrested after Eid speech

Shopian, May 15: Police have arrested Umat-e-Islamia leader and a cleric soon after he spoke about the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict in South Kashmir’s Shopian district. A police party from Zainpora Police Station arrested Sarjan Ahmed alias Sarjan Barkati from his Reban Khujpora residence in Shopian. A police official on condition of anonymity said said Barkati […]

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