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Bandipora witnesses vibrant winter, thanks to Winter Carnival 2023

Enthusiastic youth converge at Authwatto   Bandipora: The winters in Bandipora has remained vibrant due to the winter carnival organised by district administration. The carnival warmed...

Srinagar areas falling under BB cantt get property tax bills

Srinagar: Srinagar residents falling under the cantonment board Badamibagh have been receiving property tax bills in last couple of days. Many residents told Kashmir Reader...

Growers reluctant to carry out pruning

SHOPIAN: Farmers in several areas in Kashmir haven’t been pruning their orchards after the devastating snowfall last week after their apprehension of losing on...

More rains, snow this week, forecasts MeT

SRINAGAR: After three days of dry spell, weather conditions are going to worsen in coming days across the Kashmir Valley, an official from the...

Snowfall aftermath: Apple stored at Shopian mandi damaged

SHOPIAN: The season’s first snowfall has caused extensive damage to the apple stocked at fruit mandi Aglar in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, and the...

Huge rush for plastic shoes to counter winter, waterlogged roads

SRINAGAR: The untimely snowfall in the valley has triggered a massive rush to purchase of winter specific plastic shoes (plastic), that are effective to...

Heavy snowfall leaves 7 dead, massive damage to power infra, trees

Srinagar: The season’s first major snowfall in the Valley left at least seven people dead in various incidents on Thursday, besides causing heavy damage...

Non-local beggars disappear from city

Srinagar: With the revocation of special status and splitting of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, non-local beggars have disappeared from the city...

Trucks halted, apples procured under MIS piling up in Shopian mandi

Srinagar: Apple stocks procured under government Market Intervention Scheme are piling up at Fruit Mandi Shopian, after the government stopped movement of trucks in...

J&K fails to implement ‘dry leaf composting’ under SBM

Srinagar: The J&K government has failed to implement ‘Dry Leaf Composting’ scheme, one of the main components of Solid Liquid Waste Management (SLWM), under...

Prayers barred at Jamia Masjid for 13th week

SRINAGAR: The government disallowed congregational Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar for 13th consecutive week, even after the transition of J&K from...

Year after declared Open Defecation Free, JK fails to implement Gobar Dhan

SRINAGAR: A year after J&K was declared as Open Defecation Free (ODF) on 2nd October 2018, the government has failed to implement one of...

‘This is All India Radio Kashmir’

SRINAGAR: Radio Kashmir is now “All India Radio Kashmir”, according to an official decree issued on Friday. This effect comes a day after the...

Murmu takes charge as first LG of JK

Srinagar: Girish Chandra Murmu took oath of office as the first Lieutenant Governor for Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar on Thursday,...

J&K, Ladakh become Union Territories

Srinagar: The first Lieutenant Governor for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Girish Chandra Murmu, will take oath of office on Thursday as...

Day 87: Shutdown continues in Kashmir

Srinagar: Normal life remained disrupted for the 87th straight day in Kashmir on Wednesday with all shops and business establishments closed while public traffic...

Street vendors defy shutdown in Srinagar

Srinagar: For the first time in three decades, footpath vendors of a flea market here on Sunday defied the strike call to observe October...

Non-local truckers vacated from south Kashmir parts

Srinagar: Panic gripped several parts of south Kashmir on Sunday afternoon after authorities “forcefully” removed hundreds of non-local truckers from several places in Shopian...

Grenade blast outside SMHS Hospital, 6 CRPF men injured

Srinagar: At least six CRPF personnel were injured as suspected militants hurled a grenade on government forces at Kak Sarai outside the SMHS Hospital...

BDC Polls: Madhav arrives to hold worker convention in Srinagar

Srinagar: Ahead of Block Development Council (BDC) polls in J&K, BJP National General Secretary (Org) Ram Madav arrived in Valley on Saturday to hold a...

Citing confidentiality, Agra jail snubs RTI query about Kashmir detainees

Srinagar: Authorities at the Agra Central Jail have refused to provide details of detainees shifted from Jammu and Kashmir after the Government of India...

62 year old Legislative Council abolished, staff to report to GAD

Srinagar: The J&K Government has ordered abolition of the state’s 62-year-old state Legislative Council. The orders were issued Wednesday night, less than a fortnight before...

Tax rumours spoil MIS procurement in Budgam

Srinagar: Panic has gripped farmers in central Kashmir’s Budgam district after rumours spread about taxes on apple boxes sold to National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing...

Abdullah’s daughter, former CJ’s wife, among women detained for protesting Art 370 abrogation

Srinagar: Dozens of women hit street of Lal Chowk on Tuesday, staging a protest against the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A. The protestors, which...

Release of more detained politicians on cards

Srinagar: The Governor-led administration has begun the process of gradually releasing mainstream politicians, who were detained hours before Government of India announced abrogation of...

3 Kashmir politicians released after ‘signing bonds’

Srinagar: The J&K government Thursday released three political leaders from preventive detention after they signed a bond for “not disrupting peace” in the Valley. The...

BDC polls: Nominations end, BJP sole runner in most blocks

SRINAGAR: With the filing of nominations for Block Development Council polls closing Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged as the sole runner...

With truck unions shut in Kashmir, south Indian truckers face communication barrier

Srinagar: Several truckers from south India who had been visiting Kashmir to procure and ferry apples have been stuck here, facing a communication barrier,...

LeT militant killed in Awantipora encounter

Srinagar: A militant was killed in an gunfight with government forces on Tuesday in Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The slain identified as...

BDC Polls: 9 candidates file nominations fro Pulwama blocks

Pulwama: Nine candidates filed their nomination papers on Monday for the upcoming Block Development Council (BDC) polls from Pulwama district of south Kashmir. It is...

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