SRINAGAR: People in the Kashmir Valley had a respite from bone-chilling cold on Tuesday after there was a slight improvement in night temperature which had touched minus 6.5 degree Celsius. Deputy Director Metrological Department Mukhtar Ahmad told Kashmir Reader that there was a drop of more than three degree in minimum temperature resulting in a […]
Shopian: Hundreds of inhabitants are facing acute shortage of water supply in south Kashmir’s Shopian as water supply lines are frozen because of freezing temperatures. Locals said there is no taps are running dry for a fortnight as water pipes froze as temperature has dipped to minus 6.5 degree Celsius. Shahid Ahmad of Aram-Mohalla area […]
New Delhi: Four medium intensity tremors with magnitudes ranging between 4.7 and 5.5 hit Jammu and Kashmir in a span of less than two hours on Monday night, the National Centre for Seismology said. The first quake with a magnitude of 4.7 hit at 10:42 pm, followed by one measuring 5.5 six minutes later. The […]
Srinagar: Kashmir Press Club held a meeting at the club in which all editors’ bodies and journalist associations unanimously demanded restoration of internet services to media fraternity in the Valley without any delay. Kashmir Press Club, Kashmir Editors Guild, JK Editors Forum, Kashmir Union of Working Journalists, Kashmir Working Journalists Association, Kashmir Press Photographers Association, […]
BY ZEESHAN RASOOL KHAN The future of nation is dependent upon the teacher. There is no doubt that teacher holds significant place and has a vital role in society. The teacher plays an extraordinary part in lives of children during the formative years of development; importance of teacher is something that cannot be understated. It […]
‘Install crash barriers in accident prone areas’
JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu on Tuesday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) to expedite the pace of work on the four-laning of Ramban to Banihal and two-laning of Chenani-Sudhmahadev road. The Lt Governor passed these directions while reviewing the progress of various […]
New Delhi: Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat was on Monday appointed India’s first Chief of Defence Staff with a mandate to bring in convergence in functioning of the Army, the Navy and the Indian Air Force and bolster the country’s military prowess. His appointment to the newly created post came a day before he was […]
Srinagar: After facing much delay, Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) around Dal Lake are going to be upgraded to control pollution levels in the lake. The three STPs installed in 2008 at Hazratbal , Habbak and Lam equipped with Fluidized Aerobic Bio-reactor (FAB) technology are going to be upgraded with Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) technology Vice Chairman […]
BUDGAM: Anganwadi workers and helpers here said that they are without honorarium for ten months “while the department of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) has released it”. The workers and helpers from various zones of the Beerwah tehsil here said that they have approached the concerned project officer of ICDS regarding this issue, “but our […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir HC on Tuesday overturned the PSA detention of National Conference youth leader Ishtiyaq Ahmad Ganie on the ground that the detaining authority has failed to mention in the detention order about the petitioners right to make representation. The Court of Justice Ali Mohamd Magray gave a reference to the judgement […]