Srinagar: As the government celebrated National Handloom day on Friday in various functions across India, Kashmiri artisans under distress continued to remain stuck in their homes, ruing the fate of their traditional art pieces, which remain unsold due to back-to-back lockdowns that began August last. One of them is Ghulam Muhammad, an artisan who weaves […]
Cough up Rs 1000 for partnership deed Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Forum, a body that attempts to redress public issues through courts, has been planning to move court against the administration’s move of ‘exorbitantly hiking’ the rates of all the deeds, except the sale deed. Syed Nassarullah Shah, chairman of the forum told Kashmir […]
Srinagar: Before August 5, 2019, Kashmir’s ‘mainstream’ political leaders had never felt the fear of losing their special status. Such was their faith that even when the Government of India started moving additional troops to the valley and the streets of Kashmir were full of talk of abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, former chief […]
Srinagar: It has been four months but the Kashmir administration is yet to pay the hotels which were used for quarantine of Covid-19 patients and suspects. Abdul Wahid, president of Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant Owners Federation, told Kashmir Reader that the administration used the services of 144 hotels for about two months to house Covid […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir administration has decided to re-test for Covid-19 at the district level all non-local labourers who have entered Kashmir and were screened at Jawahar Tunnel. The move comes amid growing speculation among people that non-local labourers have entering the Valley without undergoing Covid-19 test. Last week, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole ordered in […]
SRINAGAR: Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Thursday sealed a commercial building being constructed at Hari Singh High Street in Amira Kadal. The SMC took the action after neighbouring shopowners sent a written complaint to the SMC commissioner that the building was being constructed in violation of norms. For nearly a year, the construction was going […]
Srinagar: During a time when every business is struggling to survive in Kashmir, three young entrepreneurs from downtown Srinagar have started Grofills, an online store. Products on Grofills range from food grains to snacks to cosmetics to pet supplies and stationery. A trio of brothers, Haseeb Khan, Ammar Khan and Shahid Khan, residents of Sada […]
Srinagar: Just a half-a-kilometre from the office of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), a six-storey commercial complex is being built “in open violation of rules, against a court’s stay order” at Amira Kadal in city centre Lal Chowk, a complaint sent to the SMC Commissioner as well as to the Srinagar Deputy Commissioner says. “It is […]
Srinagar: Amid an upsurge in Covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir, about 25,000 non-local brick kiln labourers are going to arrive in the valley from various states to resume their work. Labour Commissioner Kashmir Abdul Rashid War, the officer who is monitoring the movement of labourers, told Kashmir Reader that by the end of next […]
SRINAGAR: Amid an upsurge in Covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir, about 25,000 non-local brick kiln labourers are going to arrive in the valley from various states to resume their work. Labour Commissioner Kashmir Abdul Rashid War, the officer who is monitoring the movement of labourers, told Kashmir Reader that by the end of next week, […]