Shopian: The health department in Shopian has found itself in an embarrassing situation after misspelling simple words on banners related to a dry run for Covid-19 vaccination. The flex banners put up by the staff announcing the event misspelt “vaccination” as “vacinaion” and “district” as “dictrict”. After the mistake was brought to the notice of […]
Shopian: Two elderly persons could not reach hospital due to snow blocking the roads and died of heart attack in two separate villages in Shopian district. Ghulam Rasool Khan died on Saturday evening of a heart attack after carrying his ailing son on a stretcher to his home in Shadab-Kareva village. His son, Suhail Ahmad, […]
Shopian: To meet the challenges caused by snow sliding down roofs on to roads, officials in Shopian have asked for the constitution of a committee which would make a road map for future constructions and come up with solutions for the existing roofs. The Roads and Buildings (R&B) department in Shopian has been removing snow […]
Shopian: A cluster of houses was submerged in water and two cattle died when a cowshed collapsed due to flooding from a nearby stream at Thairan village, some nine kilometers from district headquarters Shopian, on Sunday. Locals from the village said that eight households were submerged in water after a nearby stream overflowed in the […]
Will take two more days to make roads feasible for traffic: Executive Engineer Shopian: It has been a week now that transport in Shopian is still off the roads, with snow sliding down roofs on to roads adding to the difficulties of snow clearance. Even after day and night efforts put in by the Mechanical […]
Shopian: Four members of a family were hospitalised on Saturday morning after they lost consciousness in their sleep at a village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. A police official said that Javed Ahmad Thoker, his wife and their two children were found unconscious inside a room of their house in Nusipora village in Keegam area […]
Shopian: Government forces carried out a search operation after laying a nocturnal cordon around a cluster of houses in Turkwangam village of Shopian on Friday night. The operation, according to a police source, was launched by a joint team of government forces on the inputs about the presence of militants in the locality. However, nothing […]
Shopian: Fed-up with the promises, thousands of villagers in Shopian again on Friday left their homes with shovels to remove the snow from roads on the third consecutive day. However, locals urged the district magistrate and higher officials that they should not show any expenditure on snow clearance operations in the area. “After we removed […]
Shopian: Though his house does not even have a power supply connection, this Shopian man is receiving electricity bills of nearly one-and-a-half lakh rupees every month. Hashmat Kalas, a resident of Mukami-Dunaroo in Keller belt of district Shopian, told Kashmir Reader that he is receiving these electricity bills every month despite the fact that there […]
Shopian/ Srinagar: Line men working on ‘temporary’ basis for the Power Development Department (PDD) have been risking their lives without any safety gear, not even shoes provided by the department, to restore power supply in south Kashmir amid the heaviest snowfall witnessed in years. The line men are being hailed as “heroes” for being at […]