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Officials wait for ‘action plan’ while vast mulberry nursery goes to waste in Shopian

Shopian: One of Kashmir’s biggest mulberry nurseries, at Losedenow village in Shopian district, has been such a victim of official apathy that with every...

Cherry transportation picks up in Shopian amid pandemic

Shopian: With the arrival of cherry harvest season in Kashmir, Aglar Mandi in Shopian has started limited operations to dispatch the fruit to different...

Hailstorm damages crops in Pulwama, Shopian

Shopian: Hailstorm wreaked havoc in Pulwama and Shopian villages on Friday causing damage damages to standing crops. Heavy hailstorm was witnessed in Pulwama and Shopian...

Shopian patient offered collective Eid prayers, visited neighbours, relatives after sample collection

Shopian: A 50-year-old man from Shopian found positive of the novel Coronavirus a day ago participated in collective Eid-ul-Fitr prayers, visited neighbours and relatives,...

Shopian in trouble again as 16 members of a family, a meat seller, and a bread maker test positive

Shopian: Officials in Shopian are wondering how 16 people from Chatwatan village tested positive for the novel coronavirus as none of them has travel...

Shopian’s Covid active cases reduce to 11 from 109

Shopian: Shopian has seen no fresh case for last five days giving respite to administration as well as frontline workers combating Covid-19. The south Kashmir...

Shops on wheels become saviours in Covid lockdown

Shopian: Thanks to small load carrier vehicles and auto rickshaws, people in rural areas here have not faced scarcity of essential commodities in the...

Shopian hospital starts 24×7 OT services, but sorely lacks a blood bank

Shopian: Doctors with the help of the district administration have started 24×7 operation theatre services for the first time at Shopian district hospital (DH)....

Police act against illegal miners in Shopian

Arrests 27 persons, seize vehicles Shopian: Police on Tuesday cracked down on illegal mineral miners and arrested 27 persons and seized 26 vehicles meant for...

Forces beat ambulance driver in Pulwama; ‘DC Pulwama starts inquiry’

Shopian: An ambulance driver of Shopian district was allegedly beaten by government forces at Pulwama late on Sunday night. The driver identified as Tariq Ahmed...

Famished street dogs become vicious in Shopian

Shopian: The coronavirus lockdown is driving stray dogs to fury, as street food and leftovers of meat have vanished in all towns and villages....

Lack of pruning and cleanliness cause of scab infections in Kashmir orchards this year

Shopian: A new scab infection in apple trees arrived with the month of May and orchardists are apprehensive about the well-being of their crop,...

People stop officials from retrieving illegally extracted minerals in Shopian

shopian: Officials failed to retrieve illegally excavated minerals of Shopian Nala as people stopped them from carrying out their duties at Ayend Rawalpora village...

Hotspot Hirpora still reporting most of new cases in Shopian

Shopian: There is no let-up in decline of Covid-19 cases in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, where the tally has reached 89, most of the...

Cherry crop ready, but lockdown big worry

Shopian: Cherry, this year’s first fruit crop in Kashmir valley, is ready but will it face as many hardships as last year’s apple? The...

20-hour encounter in Shopian ends, 3 militants killed, army Major injured

Shopian: Three militants, said to be locals, were killed in the same village where four others were killed a week ago, while a residential...

Choicest Kashmiri Kulu apples: order for home delivery in Ramadhan

Shopian: The constraints of a lockdown-confined Ramadan have unexpectedly become occasion for the union of Kashmiris with their apples. Two youths have started delivering...

Good news for Shopian as number of cases decline

Shopian: After a spike in number of Covid19 cases last week, Shopian is now seeing a decline in cases even as more samples are...

9 more cases in Shopian; doctor says it is community transmission

InShopian : Covid-19 cases continue to mount in Shopian district with nine more cases reported on Thursday, taking the district’s tally to 55. Of...

With 14 more cases, situation in Hirpora turns from casual to grim

Shopian: Despite being declared a Red Zone and sealed from all sides, Hirpora area in Shopian district was observing the lockdown more in the...

4 militants killed in Shopian encounter

Shopian: Four militants were killed in a gunfight at Melhura village in Shopian on Wednesday. A police spokesperson confirmed that four militants were killed. According to...

Hirpora hotspot in Shopian district

Shopian: Twenty-two Covid-19 cases have so far been reported from Hirpora village in district Shopian. One of the initially reported cases was found negative...

Families in Shopian quarantined after labourer from Rajouri tests positive

Shopian: The Covid-19 case reported from Rajouri on Saturday has alarmed villagers in Shopian district where the man was working as a labourer until...

Early scab infection in apple leaves worries orchardists

Shopian: Early scab infection in leaves of fruit trees, especially apple trees, has appeared after many years in Kashmir. Horticulture experts believe that the...

Families demand return of bodies labelled as ‘unidentified’

Shopian: Two families from Shopian on Saturday demanded the return of bodies of two militants labelled “unidentified” by the police and sent to burial...

Two militants killed in Shopian

Shopian: Two militants were killed in an encounter with government forces at Dairoo village of south Kashmir's Shopian. Locals from Dairoo village in Keegan belt...

In south Kashmir, 1,150 samples tested in a population of 25 lakh

Shopian: From a population of over 25 lakh, only 1,150 samples have been taken, of which 23 have tested positive, in the region known...

Kashmir Apple industry going through ‘worst phase ever’

Shopian: Apple growers and traders in Kashmir are having to pay for cold storages but are earning nothing as the coronavirus lockdown has forced...

Rabid dogs on prowl in Shopian, many injured

Shopian: Rabid dogs are in prowl in Shopian villages and over a dozen people including children have been injured so far. In Voterpora village,...

Rambiara rivulet plundered at night with utter disregard of lockdown

Shopian: As the night falls over Rambiara rivulet in south Kashmir, nocturnal activity of men and machinery begins on its banks. The cover of...

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