Shopian: One person died while another was seriously injured after an oil tanker met with an accident at Sukh Sarai area of Mughal Road. The accident according to sources took place on Sunday noon when the tanker was travelling from Kashmir to Jammu. A senior police officer told Kashmir Reader that the tanker has fallen […]
Shopian: The Shopian-Aharbal road, vital for the local tourism economy, is in a shambles for a long time but the authorities are showing no inclination to repair it, especially the 4-km stretch from Sedow village to Aharbal which was damaged due to soil erosion some four years ago. Besides the damaged four-kilometer stretch, the road […]
Shopian: People in Keller, a far-flung and mostly tribal area of Shopian district, have accused the authorities at the local Primary Health Centre (PHC) of denying them health care and diagnostic facilities that are available at the hospital. A group of aggrieved local patients and their attendants told Kashmir Reader that the Block Medical Officer […]
Shopian: Sixteen years on, the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Shopian is still awaiting construction of an administrative-cum-workshop block building, due to a dispute over funds between the Technical Education department and the Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC). The construction work on the building was started in the financial year 2006-07 to provide […]
Mobile internet not suspended in unusual decision by administration Shopian: Three militants, including Arif Hajam, the Lashkar-e-Toiba’s district commander, were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Kwarigam Ranipora in Achbal area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday afternoon, police sources said. The gunfight in the area broke out at around 3:30 in […]
Shopian: Continuing their anti-militancy offensive in Kashmir, government forces on Saturday carried out four more cordon and search operations (CASOs) in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. The search operations, according to police sources, were carried out at Braripora, Heff Shirmal, Manloo and Gadpora villages in the district. They said that these military operations were carried out […]
Shopian: The second wave of Covid-19 has almost gone out of Shopian, with only 10 active cases in the district now, though on Friday two more cases were reported. The last Covid related death in the district was reported a month ago, a senior health official said. Since then, all the patients have recovered except […]
Shopian: Government forces on Wednesday carried out cordon and search operations (CASOs) at two villages and Search and Destroy Operations (SADOs) in orchards in another two villages in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. No contact with militants was established during the two CASOs while the SADOs were underway in the evening at two different villages. The […]
Funds meant for new building ‘taken by R&B dept but work not done’, says CMO Shopian: A health sub-centre at Shadab Kareva area in Keller medical block of district Shopian is functioning from a bare-bricked, small and rundown building, where a ladder serves the purposes of a staircase. The district’s chief medical officer says that […]
SHOPIAN: Even after five years, about a hundred villages and five Tehsil headquarters have to wait another year or more for the completion of work on the Shopian-Bejbahara road, work which was started in the year 2017 under the Central Roads Fund (CRF). Locals living alongside this 24-kilometer road stretch say that the road has […]