Pulwama: Clashes erupted between government forces and locals in Kareemabad village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday. Reports said that the clashes erupted after government forces started a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in Kareemabad village after receiving specific inputs about the presence of militants in the area. Soon after the search operation […]
Baramulla: Police On Friday claimed to have arrested a militant from Pattan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla District. He was identified as Firdous Ahmed Wani belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit. According to the reports, Wani was carrying arms and ammunition when he was arrested by the government forces. Guest
Srinagar: Two quarter final matches of second phase of first Mufti Mohammad Syed Memorial Gold Cup League Football Tournament-2017 were played at Synthetic Turf TRC in Srinagar on Thursday. In the first quarterfinal of the day, SK FC Budgam thrashed Real Wanpora Kulgam by a margin of five goals to nil. In the one sided […]
The lack of availability of a matching blood group at the local blood bank and the tears of despair and helplessness of a woman, in need of blood for her husband, undergoing an emergency surgery is still fresh in my mind. The sigh of relief she felt when she got a blood donor. And a […]
Srinagar: Governing a state like Jammu and Kashmir is an uphill task. Not because of some unusual traits of the state but due to the lack of political stability in the state. The state continues to miss out on governance front as the region stands no chance of being calculated as a developed region when […]
Jammu: Minister for Finance, Labour & Employment, Dr Haseeb Drabu has stressed the need for keeping liabilities under check and to ensure that the projects are taken up in consonance with the resource allocations to avoid unwarranted fiscal liabilities. This was stated by the Finance Minister while chairing a meeting to discuss the expenditure and […]
Jammu: Minister for Health & Medical Education, Bali Bhagat informed that the government would cover all the districts of the state under prestigious Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). “With the implementation of the scheme in the remaining districts, the BPL families and senior citizens would also be able to avail the benefit of health […]
Jammu: Emphasizing expeditious completion of all development works to extend timely benefit to the people, Minister for Industries and Commerce Chander Parkash Ganga today exhorted upon the officers to keep a close and constant monitoring on the works and ensure that quality norms are strictly adhered to while executing the development projects. “The government is […]
Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir today directed the district administration Bandipora and mobile operators to work in tandem so that all the network connectivity issues faced by people in flung areas of Gurez and Tulail are addressed at the earliest. The Div Com was chairing a meeting with representatives of telecom operators including BSNL, JIO, Airtel, […]
Shopian: Sheep Husbandry department organised a daylong awareness camp for sheep breeders at Keller. During the workshop, it was revealed that the sheep population in district Shopian has reached to 1.80 lakh. Simultaneously, the number of cross-breed sheep has risen to 1.34 lakh. The mutton production in the district has shown improvement and it has […]