Srinagar: A 19-year old left handed batsman died after being struck in the neck by a ball while playing a cricket match at Nanil area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday. The cricket tournament is being organized by the Government’s Youth Services and Sports Department in the area. The incident occurred when the match […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Thursday said Kashmir is a “dispute” between India and Pakistan which needs to be resolved through dialogue. Abdullah, the MP from Srinagar, said nothing would be achieved through military might. “Kashmir is a dispute between two countries (India and Pakistan). The issue is still in the United Nations. […]
Pulwama: Under Secretary Health and Medical Education Department has asked the in charge Medical Superintendent Pulwama, Dr Abdul Rashid Parra to explain his position for submitting “misleading and biased” information to the department about his wife, who is also a doctor, posted in the same hospital for more than nine years. The development came a […]
Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership on Thursday called for a complete shutdown on Saturday July 13 in remembrance of the martyrs and as a means to once again reiterate the urgent need for a peaceful and just resolution of the Kashmir conflict and to put an end to repression against the people and those representing […]
Srinagar: Urging Government of India (GoI) to seize the golden opportunity and hold talks with all stakeholders in the state, National Conference (NC) president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said opening of channels of dialogue will led to successful outcomes. Former Chief Minister Dr Abdullah, MP from Srinagar constituency, while underscoring the inevitability of the […]
Zia-ul-Haq Anantnag: The air conditioners (ACs) in the lone maternity and child (MCH) hospital Anantnag remains defunct since the day it was installed adding to the agonies of the patients in the scorching summer heat. The AC’s in two labor and two surgical wards of the hospital, according to insiders were installed in the hospital […]
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached property of Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) chief Asiya Andrai on the city outskirts under Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act. Andrabi and two of her close confidantes Nahida Nasreen and Sofi Fahmeeda were arrested in Soura area of Srinagar in July 2018 in connection with funding and other cases registered against […]
Kupwara: Three persons including father and son were killed and two others were injured due to electrocution following a short circuit in Tangdar sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district during pre-dawn hours on Wednesday. Police said that all the five persons were electrocuted after they tried to switch off their electric appliances in their houses. […]
A day after Internet was shutdown in parts of Kashmir and throttled in other parts, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday condemned the rapid growth in India’s use of this “crude form of censorship” and called on New Delhi to overhaul legislation so as to guarantee the universal right to online news and information. In […]
Anantnag: Days after The Kashmir Press reported that the doctors and the para-medics at district hospital Anantnag were “forcing” patients to buy surgical items from a “particular” private dealer, the para-medics at the hospital on Tuesday denied attending the patient who had reported the issue to media. On June 27, The Kashmir Press reported that a patient […]
