CM thanks Tendulkar for sanctioning Rs 40 lakh for school in North Kashmir

Srinagar: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti thanked cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar for sanctioning over Rs 40 lakh from the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) funds for construction of a school building in Kupwara district of North Kashmir. “Thankful to @sachin_rt for using his MPLAD funds for the construction of a school building in Kashmir. Even off […]

Search for a new VC: Committee begins interaction with stakeholders

Srinagar: The search committee constituted to hunt for a new Vice Chancellor for the Kashmir University (KU) on Friday began their interaction with the stakeholders in the varsity. The search committee held interactions with the heads of the departments, directors of KU campuses, heads of the departments, professors, associate professors and assistant professors besides research […]

Man held for circulating rumour on social media

Srinagar: A man was Friday arrested for circulating a rumour on social media that a shopkeeper had joined militant ranks in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to the police, photograph of Aqib Farooq Mir, a shopkeeper in Beehama area of Ganderbal district, was circulated on social media on Wednesday claimed that he had […]

Social media helping medicos to save lives in Kashmir

Srinagar: Though social media has been given a bad name, two young doctors have proved otherwise. The young medicos have created a ‘whatsapp’ group which is helping in saving countless lives in the peripheries spread across Kashmir division. The whatsapp group named ‘Save Heart Initiative’ a dedicated group is helping in saving people with heart […]

Jails in India are overcrowded by over 600 per cent, SC calls it shocking 

New Delhi: Prisoners “cannot be kept in jail like animals”, a shocked Supreme Court said after it was informed that many of the over 1,300 prisons across the country were overcrowded, even to the extent of more than 600 per cent. “What’s the point in talking about prison reforms when we cannot keep them in […]

Elderly man killed during scuffle  

Srinagar: A 60 year old person was killed during a scuffle with his neighbour in north Kashmir Bandipora district, sources said. According to sources, Ghulam Mohammad Dar, 60, was injured during a fight with his neighbour following a heated argument over some issue on Thursday evening. Dar was immediately shifted to local hospital from where […]

Youth attempts suicide

Srinagar: In a bid to end to his life, a youth (name withheld) resident of Srinagar on Friday consumed some poisonous substance, a police official said. “He was shifted to SKIMS Soura for treatment”, the official said. Meanwhile, police has registered a case in this regard.   Guest

Army’s seasonal huts along Mughal road set ablaze

Srinagar: Unknown persons on Thursday night set ablaze several seasonal huts belonging to army at Doubjan area along the Mughal road in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Official sources said that the unknown persons suspected to be militants set on fire three to five seasonal huts of army’s 44 RR at Doubjan area. A police officer […]

Catastrophe: A tin shed, three dependents is all that the slain SPO left behind

Katoo (Bijbehara): Driven by poverty, Mushtaq Ahmed Sheikh, the slain Special Police Officer (SPO) who was killed in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara area on Thursday had opted to join the police force out of duress. Orphaned quite early in his life, the slain SPO was living in abject poverty and was hardly making his two ends […]

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