The wheel of time turns cruel for Kashmir’s potters

The wheel of time turns cruel for Kashmir’s potters

BUDGAM: Kashmir’s pottery, once famed and sought after, is now struggling to find takers as well as makers. Families that practised this work for generations suddenly find their new generation uninterested, one of the primary reasons being the lack of any secure income through this profession. Several families in Charan Gam village in Beerwah tehsil […]

More rain in Kashmir, but no more coming

Highway closed today for road maintenance SRINAGAR: Rains lashed Kashmir valley for the second straight day on Tuesday, keeping down the mercury that had risen to uncomfortable heights in the past week. Rain started in the night and continued in the morning in Srinagar and elsewhere, making people breathe a sigh of relief from the […]

Toddler falls in stream in Budgam, dies

Toddler falls in stream in Budgam, dies

BUDGAM: A 3-year old girl drowned to death in a small stream at Thajwader area of Khansahib Tehsil in Budgam district on Sunday. According to the SHO of the Police Station Khansahib the accident happened when her mother was washing the clothes close to the stream and unfortunately the child slipped into the small stream. […]

10-year-old boy dies after falling from tractor

10-year-old boy dies after falling from tractor

Budgam: A 10-year-old boy was killed on Tuesday afternoon after he met with an accident in Wanihuma village of Tehsil Beerwah in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The deceased boy has been identified by the police as Aqib Hussain Ganie Son of Ghulam Mohammad Ganie, ten years of age Resident of MulaShulla area of Beerwah Tehsil. […]

Kashmir Agricultural Employees Association hold election

Mushtaq elected prez, Sheikh as gen secy Budgam: Then Monday held elections for the posts of the president and General secretary in which Mustaq Ali Yatoo was elected as president and Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh was elected the general secretary for the Association. The two candidates including Firdous Ahmad Bichoo and Mustaq Ali Yatoo contested the […]

Budgam road macadamised under PMGSY in 2014, now in a shambles

Budgam road macadamised under PMGSY in 2014, now in a shambles

BUDGAM: People living in three villages in Khansahib tehsil in central Kashmir’s Budgam district are facing considerable difficulties because the Zagoo-Ringzabal road has not been macadamised in the last 7 years. Residents of the three villages – Zagoo, Kharian, and Ringzabal – told Kashmir Reader that it was in the year 2014 that the government […]

Man from Beerwah found dead in Nallah Sukhnag

Man from Beerwah found dead in Nallah Sukhnag

Budgam: Police on Thursday recovered the body of the 58 year old man from Nallah Sukhnag in Beerwah main town who according to them was a part-time sanitation staffer at tehsil office Beerwah . The deceased have been identified by the police as Abdul Rehman Bhat, 58 years of age resident of main town Beerwah. […]

Kupwara girl dies in road mishap in Budgam

Budgam: A 24 year girl from the Kupwara district died after her vehicle rolled down from the heights of Doodhpathri on Friday at Khansahib Tehsil in central Kashmiri’s Budgam district. The deceased has been identified by the police Saima Rasheed Daughter of Abdul Rashid age 24 years resident of Shatwari Kupwara district. A police official […]

Operate JK Bank Ratsun on alternate days to ease financial dealings: Locals

People must corporate in vaccination programme to get area de-notified as microcontamination zone: officials BUDGAM: The people from the various villages of the Rathsun Block in the Beerwah Tehsil demanding the higher authorities of the district to open its JK bank Branch in the Rathsun village on the alternative basis which has remained closed from […]

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