Srinagar: Geographical Indication (GI) tagging of locally produced products still remains hanging in the air months after the Industries and Commerce Department asked various stakeholders to get their products registered. The delay has left Kashmir’s copper utensils, wood carving, papier-mâché, carpets, and other such traditional crafts and products deprived of the GI tag that indicates […]
SRINAGAR: Battling cancer for two years, wife of senior Hurriyat leader Ayaz Akbar, who is currently lodged in Tihar Jail, passed away on Friday at their residence in Maloora area in Srinagar outskirts. She was 52. The mother of four, Rafeeqa Bano was diagnosed with terminal disease in 2019, two years after her husband was […]
SRINAGAR: Amid the surge in Covid cases, the government has included people associated with travel and tourism in the priority group for getting Covid vaccination in the Valley. According to the divisional commissioner Kashmir PK Pole, Deputy Commissioners and Director Tourism have been asked to immediately vaccinate people dealing with the tourism and transport sector. […]
Govt acts against 2 engineers SRINAGAR: Power department has confirmed that power cuts during Sehri and Iftar times were not merely due to the overload of the power distribution system, but also due to the laxity of its staff in providing the unhindered supply in at least two areas. The fact came to fore on […]
SRINAGAR: While Kashmir seems to be fast sinking into the abyss of the Covid-19 pandemic, months after it seemed that all had been brought under control, the situation in hospitals is still quite reassuring. Over the past two months now, the number of Covid-19 cases has risen considerably while the recovery rate of the patients […]
Powerful defaulters such as CRPF, govt depts still refuse to clear dues SRINAGAR: The conversion of the Power Development Department to a corporation has had no impact even after more than a year, the official figures clearly suggest. In the last fiscal 2020-21, the corporation realised Rs 1,081 crore revenue against the set target of […]
SRINAGAR: Just a week after the power department announced that it will bring outages down in Kashmir, winter season-like power cuts continue to disturb daily routines during the ongoing holy month of Ramadan, perhaps for the first time in April in the recent past. The power cuts even occur at the times of Sehri and […]
SRINAGAR: Nearly two months after the first jab of Covid-19 vaccine was given in Kashmir Valley, apprehensions about getting vaccinated are still widespread among people. As per official figures, neither all health care professionals nor front line workers, nor all persons above 45 have got their first shot of vaccine. Muhammad Afzal, a 53-year-old government […]
Least arsenic in J&K’s groundwater in all India: IIT study SRINAGAR: The groundwater in Jammu and Kashmir contains the least percentage of arsenic among all regions in India, an IIT Kharagpur study has revealed. The groundwater here has only one percent of arsenic concentration, the least among all regions of India. The study found that […]
Butchers Association shifts blame on government for allowing rates to go back SRINAGAR: Even after a month since the four-month hiatus over mutton rates has been over, there is very limited adherence to the government-set rates in Kashmir. Mutton dealers in all parts of the valley continue to sell mutton at Rs 600 a kg, […]