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90% inmates in Jammu & Kashmir jails are undertrial prisoners: Prisons department

90% inmates in Jammu & Kashmir jails are undertrial prisoners: Prisons department

  The department has made the information available to a request under the Right to Information (RTI) Act filed by two Kashmiri students. The reply by Public Information Officer (PIO) of Director-General of Police, Prisons Department, Jammu further said that less than 2% of all individuals arrested in militancy-related cases have been convicted. The response […]

Cardiac arrests among Kashmir’s young lot alarming, say Cardiologists

Cardiac arrests among Kashmir’s young lot alarming, say Cardiologists

Srinagar, Dec 07: The cardiologists in the Valley termed the heart attacks or cardiac arrests among the youth as alarming, saying that smoking, drug menace and psycho social stress were among the main causes behind the increasing rate of deaths occurring due to the heart attacks or cardiac arrests. , Dr Nisar Tramboo, Head of […]

House of famous religious scholar Anwar Shah Kashmiri in ruins

House of famous religious scholar Anwar Shah Kashmiri in ruins

Kupwara, Aug 17): Nearly three years after the government of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir directed the education department to conserve the literally contribution of Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri (RA) and preserve the 150-year-old residential house under its heritage conservation programme, it is lying in ruins due to the inaction of the concerned […]

COVID-19: Deadly July in J&K—276 deaths, 12862 positive cases

COVID-19: Deadly July in J&K—276 deaths, 12862 positive cases

Srinagar, July 31: Even though the deadly Coronavirus set its foot in Jammu and Kashmir in the month of March this year, the dreaded virus wreaked havoc in the month of July that saw 276 deaths and 12862 positive cases. Despite witnessing a surge in deaths and positive cases, people from different walks of life were […]

COVID-19: A deadly fortnight in J&K, 105 die since July 1

COVID-19: A deadly fortnight in J&K, 105 die since July 1

Srinagar, July 15: The deadly pandemic has wreaked havoc in Jammu and Kashmir UT in the last fortnight as the virus has claimed 105 lives in the UT of which 99 were reported in the Valley alone and rest in Jammu. Official data suggests that more than 50 percent deaths related to Covid-19 were witnessed […]

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