Not paid wages since Aug 5, 2019, casual labourers also receive no money for treatment of injuries sustained in field Shopian: Casual labourers working for the wildlife department are the overlooked victims of Kashmir’s man-animal conflict. In return for meagre wages, they often get critically injured during duty but get no assistance from the government, […]
Bureaucrats took decision in haste, without public consultation: Traders’ Federation Shopian: Since the Pulwama bus and cab stand has been shifted to Drusoo, more than two kilometers away from its old location, the local businessmen have been left high and dry, as very few people now visit the area. The traders in the area say […]
Unfenced, situated next to fruit mandi, playground, the garbage continues to pollute Rambiara river and the environment Shopian: On the one hand municipal authorities in Shopian are spending Rs 43 lakhs on construction of a clock tower at Gol Chowk in Shopian town, while on the other hand the newly designated dumping site between Aglar […]
Shopian: Body of 21-year-old youth was found at Turkawangam village of Shopian on Wednesday with his family claiming he was murdered by the family of a girl with whom he was in relationship. He was identified as Shahid Ahmad Ganie son of Manzoor Ahmad of Urpora village in Nagbal area of the district. Police said […]
Shopian: Pulwama is probably the lone town in Kashmir which has no footpaths at all in the entire town area. What is worse, the authorities have no plans to establish any footpath in the town either. Officials, when asked about this, said that there is a fund of Rs 1 crore for town beautification, but […]
Shopian: Safnagri is the lone village in Shopian district where people grow vegetables instead of fruits, on more than 400 kanals of land in the village, but despite their efforts towards a mini green revolution, they have been denied irrigation facilities by a government that doesn’t seem to care. Villagers in Safnagri told Kashmir Reader […]
Shopian: ‘Teli maali aasen tithi kaeran, tangg cxonthi papen cxearan seeth’. These lines are from a poem of famous Kashmiri Sufi saint and poet Sheikh Noor ud Din Noorani (Sheikh ul Alam) and they mean: ‘A time will come when pear and apple will ripe with apricot’. Sheikh Noorani was predicting signs of doomsday in […]
Srinagar: A militant from Pulwama affiliated with Al-Badr was killed in an encounter with government forces in Budgam district on Saturday, while another militant, a native of Khrew, escaped cordon but was arrested in Pulwama, police said. The forces had launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Mochuwa area of Budgam, following inputs about the presence […]
SHOPIAN: Municipal authorities in Pulwama are doing the opposite of what they are supposed to do: causing garbage and pollution instead of removing it. A space along the Circular Road in the town, which has no fence or boundary, and which is near residential houses and horticulture land, they have chosen to dump garbage. The […]
60 stitches, mostly on head, to shooter before being shifted to SMHS Shopian: Two persons, including a wildlife department tranquiliser shooter, were grievously injured by a black bear in Imamsahib area of Shopian on Thursday morning. The bear was later tranquilised by a team of Wildlife Control Room Division Shopian. Locals from Kadgam and Chitterwach […]