Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday ordered transfers in the administration . In the interest of administration, the following transfers and postings are hereby ordered with immediate effect. According to a Government Order NO.1084- GAD of 2018 Babeeta Kumari, Private Secretary, under orders of transfer to Higher Education Department, is posted as Private Secretary […]
Srinagar: Three pilgrims, including two from Andhra Pradesh, died today en route to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas due to various causes, taking the death toll in this year’s yatra to six. Thota Radhnam, a 75-year-old woman from Fiwalayam in Andhra Pradesh, died of suspected cardiac arrest in a community […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday sought help of general public in tracing a girl from Punjab missing since July 2. A police spokesperson said Rajeev Kumar, a resident of Gurdaspur Punjab reported in police station Rajbagh that his 17-year-old daughter Muskan @Gudiya went out of the hotel and didn’t return. Kumar said that […]
Srinagar: Over 31,085 people were certified as disabled in the 10 districts in Kashmir valley, up 74% from 17,898 people in the three years of Bhartia Janta Party and People’s Democratic Party rue in Jammu and Kashmir, Indiaspend.com reported. The rising unrest in the Valley played a role in the increase, activists said, specifically pointing […]
Srinagar: Dr Abdul Gani Poswal, working as a doctor, has seen many people dying before his eyes. But when he had to declare his own son, Faizan Ahmed poswal, dead, Gani said the hell broke loose and it was like the needles pierceing his heart. Last Friday, Gani’s son Faizan, a Class 10 student, was […]
Delhi: Union home minister Rajnath Singh will start his two-day visit to Jammu & Kashmir on Wednesday, during which he will hold a high-level security review in Srinagar and also tour the Amarnath shrine. Sources in the home ministry said Singh, who will be accompanied by national security adviser Ajit Doval, will arrive in Srinagar on Wednesday […]
Srinagar: The annual pilgrimage was going on smoothly on Tuesday as fresh batches of yatris, chanting ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Bam Bam Bholay’ left Baltal and Nunwan Pahalgam base camps for holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, where so far 36,366 yatris had paid obeisance so far. A fresh batch of 3,489 yatris, […]
Srinagar: A massive cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) we’re launched by government forces in Hajin township of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, hours after militants appeared in a local mosque late night. Reports said that the CASO was launched after a few militants appeared at a local mosque after Isha prayers yesterday. The militants reportedly had challenged the forces […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has termed the reports of government formation as mere rumors and sought an early election in the state. Senior PDP leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar has said that his party does not respond to rumors regarding government formation. He said from the day one when the government collapsed […]
Srinagar: In what points towards the growing callousness and degrading social values in Kashmir, a body of a newborn baby boy was found abandoned in the waters of Dal lake at the Ranawari locality. The incident happened on the morning of June 29 when a Srinagar Municipal Corporation employee during a routine cleaning work spotted […]
