KASHMIR

‘Focus on vegetable sellers, shopkeepers, barbers, other target groups’: Div Com asks DC’s

‘Focus on vegetable sellers, shopkeepers, barbers, other target groups’: Div Com asks DC’s

JAMMU: Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Sanjeev Verma, today asked the Deputy Commissioners of Jammu division and Health functionaries to conduct massive sampling and testing for COVID-19 to contain further spread of infection. The Divisional Commissioner passed these directions while chairing a meeting convened with Deputy Commissioners of the division to review the mechanism put in place […]

Over 1 lac stranded J&K residents evacuated till date: Govt

Over 1 lac stranded J&K residents evacuated till date: Govt

JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Government claimed tonhave evacuated about 101,170 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown. As per the official data received in this regard, the administrations of Jammu and Kashmir districts have received 37 COVID special trains at Jammu and Udhampur railway stations from different states […]

Man found hanging from tree in Kulgam

Man found hanging from tree in Kulgam

  Kulgam: A man has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree at Nipora area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday morning. Witnesses told that a man identified as Ravinder Singh, son of Deva Singh (32) of Jiger Simbli Paryal Jammu was found hanging from a tree near Alpine Petrol Pump at […]

Burglars loot Rs 2 lakh cash from Gurdwara at Jawahar Nagar

Burglars loot Rs 2 lakh cash from Gurdwara at Jawahar Nagar

Srinagar, May 30: Burglars ‘targetted’ Kalvi Dhar Gurudwara in Jawahar Nagar area of Srinagar and decamped with cash from the donation box and some valuables. Officials told that police was informed about the incident after authorities at Gurdwara found the lock at the entrance broken. A police team from Rajbagh Police Station along with FSL […]

Private hospitals, clinics get J&K govt nod to operate within 3 days

Private hospitals, clinics get J&K govt nod to operate within 3 days

  Srinagar: The authorities in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Friday framed the special operating procedure’s (SOPs) for private health institutions including the laboratories and directed them to start functioning within three days. Private diagnostic centers, labs, dental clinics and medical shops have been asked to resume the work within three days and all the […]

Govt winds up Backward Classes Commission in JK

Govt winds up Backward Classes Commission in JK

        Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday issued a formal order announcing the winding up of Backward Classes Commission that was constituted under the State Backward classes Act 1997. With fresh order, the government in Jammu and Kashmir has wound up nine Commissions in the Union territory after the re-organisation […]

Girl sets self to fire in Bandipora, dies later

Girl sets self to fire in Bandipora, dies later

Srinagar, May 29: An 18-year-old girl from Cheva area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora has set herself ablaze and later succumbed to burn injuries. Official said that an 18-year-old girl from Cheva area of Bandipora has set herself ablaze with kerosene oil on Wednesday afternoon. Following the incident, she was immediately rushed to Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital. […]

‘Accelerated recruitment’ aimed to implement new domicile rules on fast track basis: Hasnain Masoodi

‘Accelerated recruitment’ aimed to implement new domicile rules on fast track basis: Hasnain Masoodi

  Srinagar, May 29: Hasnain Masoodi JKNC MP from Anantnag has in a statement labelled “Accelerated Recruitment” scheme announced by the JK Administration to fill up 10,000 vacancies at different levels, as more a design to fast track implementation of the new domicile regime than provide any relief to thousands of unemployed youth of Jammu […]