Srinagar: Two days after the election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), the BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav incharge J&K affairs arrived Srinagar Thursday morning and is meeting intending leaders at Hotel Taj Viventa on the high security Gupkar road in the outskirts of Srinagar. Sources while disclosing this to […]
Srinagar: Dozens of orchardists of south Kashmir on Thursday said that their trucks loaded with apples that left Kashmir four days ago are still stuck in the traffic on Kashmir highway after the untimely snowfall. The orchardists appealed the government authorities and the traffic police to allow fruit laden trucks move towards Jammu on a […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Meteorological Department has said that the Valley will witness a fresh spell of widespread precipitation, rain and snowfall, in the coming week. A MeT official said that there is every possibility of scattered to fairly widespread rain/snowfall in Valley from November 12 to 14. He added that advisory for 3 days from November […]
Srinagar: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Wednesday introduced the first female pilot in Pakistan from Kashmir, Maryam Mujtaba. In a video posted on Youtube by PIA, Maryam revealed how she had been dreaming to fly from her childhood days, stating, “PIA gave me wings to fly.” Presenting the first female pilot from Kashmir – Maryam […]
Srinagar: Clashes erupted in Arihal village of southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday morning after government forces launched a cordon and search operation (CASO) in the area. Reports said that a contingent of army, special operations group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police and CRPF personnel cordoned Budh Mohalla in Arihal and started a search operation. […]
Srinagar: Taking cognizance of a complaint filed by a family, Police Station Kunzar here in North Kashmir registered a formal case against Tehsildar, Naib Tehsildar and Patwari of Karhama tehsil of Tangmarg. Nisar Ahmed, the complainant in his complaint has alleged that under the garb of removing illegal encroachment the Revenue officials illegally detained and […]
Srinagar: Kashmir sapphires are renowned for their brilliance and strong saturation of velvet blue, which is reminiscent of the colour of a peacock’s neck. An exceptional necklace set with 21 top-quality Kashmir sapphires, carrying a total of 109.08 carats, will be offered at Christie’s in Hong Kong on 27 November at US $ 12-15 million. […]
Jammu: Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has said crops spread over 9000 hectares of agricultural land were damaged during the recent snowfall in Kashmir. “As per the preliminary assessment done by the State Government’s field agencies nearly 53000 hectares of horticulture and 9000 hectares of agriculture crops have been severely damaged and the tentative […]
Srinagar: Junaid Azim Mattoo was on Tuesday elected the Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation. Mattoo was a Mayoral candidate of Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference which was supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party. He defeated Congress’s Bashir Hajam. They said that Junaid won 40 votes while Congress’s Hajam bagged 26 votes. 4 votes declared invalid. Hailing […]
Srinagar: Two Kashmiri college students have been arrested in connection with the Maqsudan police station hand grenade blast case, reports said. Shahid Qayoom (22) and Fazil Bashir (23), students of an engineering college in Jalandhar, have been arrested, they said. DGP Suresh Arora said in a press release that four persons were involved in carrying […]
