Srinagar: The horticultural year has begun with a challenge in Kashmir Valley as its first fruit of the season – cherry – is ready and packed but its two main buyers are missing. According to Bashir Ahmad, president of the Parimpora mandi in Srinagar, the cherry’s two main markets in Indian states – Mumbai and […]
40 stringers in middle of Covid-19 crisis
40 stringers in middle of Covid-19 crisis Srinagar: Amid the Covid-19 crisis, when the possibility of new employment is bleak, the Jammu and Kashmir government has terminated the services of more than 40 employees who have been serving the information and Public Relations department for the last five years. “After approval of competent authority, the […]
Slain youth’s uncle, a police ASI, was with his nephew in the car, says CRPF telling a lie
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 by paramilitary CRPF on Wednesday morning at Kawoosa, Narbal, in Budgam district. The slain civilian was ferrying his uncle, a police assistant sub-inspector (ASI), to the Police Control Room in […]
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 social-distancing measures taken so far for containing the coronavirus. Every morning, when most of the population is asleep, wholesale traders arrive here along with their merchandise. They sell their fruits and […]
Srinagar: The Directorate of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Kashmir (FCSCAK), responsible for regulating market prices of food items and essential commodities, on Sunday said that it cannot keep a check on exorbitant prices of mutton unless consumers file a complaint against a specific offender. “That is the only way we can identify offenders. […]
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 in anticipation of anti-government protests post the killing of insurgent Riyaz Naikoo and his associates on Wednesday snapped mobile internet and prepaid and postpaid mobile services except of BSNL in […]
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 model” and “banks writing off their debts” as their only hope of survival. Last year, due to the six-month lockdown that followed the abrogation of J&K’s special status in early August, […]
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 a “joke” and “pittance” in Kashmir. According to the government order, which was issued on Friday, construction workers, shikarawallas, houseboat owners, tourist guides, ponywallas, flowers growers and street vendors will be […]
Srinagar: A Kashmiri working as a caterer in Rajasthan was allegedly beaten up on Wednesday evening by police while he and a fellow Kashmiri were out looking for food needed for breaking the Ramadhan fast. Altaf Ahmad, an eyewitness to the incident, told Kashmir Reader over phone that an unruly policeman in Hassanpora in Rajasthan […]
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 two weeks of their services, in the middle of the fight against the coronavirus. Their disengagement comes after after controversy erupted over photos on social media showing them resting in the […]