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CRPF shoots dead civilian in Budgam, family cries murder

Slain youth’s uncle, a police ASI, was with his nephew in the car, says CRPF telling a lie Srinagar: A 25-year-old civilian was shot dead...

Caution thrown to the winds at crowded Parimpora mandi

Srinagar: Kashmir’s Parimpora fruit mandi (market) which primarily caters to supplies of fruits, vegetables, and groceries for the region, may render futile all the...

Can’t check exorbitant mutton prices without complaint: Govt

Srinagar: The Directorate of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Kashmir (FCSCAK), responsible for regulating market prices of food items and essential commodities, on...

Relief work, helplines, medical help all affected

Srinagar: The suspension of mobile phones and internet in Kashmir has created problems for everybody involved in relief work amid the Covid-19 lockdown. The government...

Even third-generation industrialists in Kashmir ruined by lockdown after lockdown

Srinagar: The two back-to-back lockdowns since August last year have brought even veteran Kashmiri businessmen to despair. They now speak of a “new business...

Houseboat owners among others outraged at govt’s Rs 1k a month ‘pittance’

Srinagar: The financial assistance of Rs 1,000 a month provided by the government to economically weaker sections during the coronavirus lockdown is seen as...

Kashmiri caterer in Rajasthan allegedly beaten up by police

Srinagar: A Kashmiri working as a caterer in Rajasthan was allegedly beaten up on Wednesday evening by police while he and a fellow Kashmiri...

Volunteers at Covid-19 lab told to go home over social media photos

Srinagar: Some of the volunteers who were engaged in a COVID-19 laboratory to ramp up testing in Kashmir have been disengaged by authorities after...

Private hospitals to start work from Tuesday, but entry of patients only by appointment

Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole has ordered resumption of health services at private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres by Tuesday except for COVID19 patients,...

All health services to resume in Kashmir

Govt and pvt hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres, CHCs, PHCs, SDHs ordered to resume work SRINAGAR: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole has directed all district administrators...

Kashmir students who completed quarantine in Rajasthan arrive home

Srinagar: Another batch of Kashmiri students who were halted as a preventive measure for containment of COVID 19 over a month at various locations...

Kashmir students who completed quarantine in Rajasthan arrive in Srinagar 

SRINAGAR: Another batch of Kashmiri students who were halted for more than a month at various locations in the country arrived in Srinagar on...

‘Roohdar’, made and designed in Kashmir to breathe life into the dying

SRINAGAR: A group of Kashmir-based innovators in collaboration with Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) have developed a low-cost device that can be...

Inhabitants of Dal Lake fearless, and free, of Covid-19

SRINAGAR: Even in this all-encompassing lockdown, life has not come to standstill in the human settlements within and along the Dal Lake. People, as they...

Hotelier Chaya sent to 14-day quarantine in Srinagar hotel

SRINAGAR: Top Kashmir hotelier Mushtaq Ahmad Chaya, who was booked by police for leaving red zone in Jammu to travel to Srinagar on Friday,...

Weddings postponed, matchmakers sitting idle

SRINAGAR: Weddings and engagement ceremonies that were scheduled at this time of year are either being postponed or held in a “modified form”. While some...

Quiet burials worry Kashmiris of dying during lockdown

SRINAGAR: The late Abdul Majeed died during the first days of the coronavirus lockdown. His funeral was attended by less than 20 people, and...

Srinagar based philanthropic org accelerates efforts to combat pandemic

SRINAGAR: A philanthropy organisation based in Srinagar, Athrout is accelerating its efforts to combat Covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir and has so far donated scores...

Safety guidelines not met, again, in handling of body of Covid-19 deceased

SRINAGAR: Even after the death of three persons due to Covid-19 in Kashmir, there is still a deficit in adherence to the Government of...

For ‘first time in life’, mutton lovers give up on the meat

SRINAGAR: The looming fear of Covid-19 has made habitual mutton eaters give up on the pleasure, a behavioural change resisted by Kashmiris even in...

Kashmiri innovators trying to rise to Covid-19 challenge hampered by lockdown, slow internet

SRINAGAR: In Srinagar's Eidgah neighbourhood, 22-year-old innovator Waseem Nadaf has been tirelessly working on developing frugal, efficient, and quick solutions to the crisis of...

Migrant labourers herded together in Sopore college, locked up, and given no food

SRINAGAR: The government has not provided food to hundreds of migrant labourers who have been picked up from their rented accommodations and lodged at...

‘Innovation Challenge’ to fight Covid-19 launched in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: A collaboration between Kashmir-based researchers and businessmen, joined by a Kashmiri management expert from Zhejiang University China, on Friday launched an innovative ideas...

CPJ’s online petition to release Aasif Sultan

SRINAGAR: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a global body for press freedom, has launched an online petition for the immediate release of incarcerated...

Covid-19 patients now ‘feel at home’ at CD Hospital

SRINAGAR: Two days ago, Covid-19 positive patients at Chest Diseases (CD) Hospital in Srinagar were up in arms against the hospital authorities for lack...

‘Not enough testing ability to say if virus is under control’

SRINAGAR: In a week’s time since the first Covid-19 patient was detected in Kashmir, the J&K government has only managed to test less than...

Patient at CD Hospital told conflicting versions of his test results

SRINAGAR: Days after doctors were accused of negligence in the case of a Covid-19 patient who died of the infection on Thursday, another patient...

Medical staff to ‘rationalise’ protective gear: GoI

SRINAGAR: The Government of India (GoI) on Thursday called for rationalised use of protection gear kits used by health workers fighting the virus. The guidelines...

Civil society comes forward to do its bit

SRINAGAR: One after the other, people in Kashmir have begun to contribute to mitigate the challenges thrown up by Covid-19. First, it was a...

Quarantine J&K style: 5 persons in a room with no masks, no sanitisers

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government is quarantining people (for preventing spread of deadly coronavirus) by cramming more than one person in a room...

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