Reach out: CM visits South Kashmir, meets people

In order to reach out to people at their doorstep and oversee the pace of ongoing works, Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti today visited various areas of Anantnag. She interacted with people to know about their problems and directed concerned authorities to complete the ongoing works within the deadline schedule. During the visit the Chief Minister […]

Minister visits relief camps, expresses solidarity with shelling hit families

Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Choudhary Zulfkar Ali,  today visited Nowshera and took stock of arrangements put in place at the relief camps established at Government Boys Higher Secondary School Nowshera for the people affected in cross border firing in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district. MLC, Surinder Choudhary, Deputy Commissioner, Dr Shahid […]

Dy CM reviews border situation, arrangements for firing hit families

Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Nirmal Singh today visited the shelling affected areas in Nowshera sector and took stock of the situation. He was accompanied by MLA Nowshera, Ravinder Raina, Deputy Commissioner Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary and other senior officers of police and civil administration during the visit. The Deputy Chief Minister visited the relief camps […]

Dead body recovered

An unidentified body of a middle aged man was recovered in Sendbal area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Sunday, police said. An official said that the body of an unidentified male, aged about 45 to 50 years, was found in Sendbal Khirbawani. He said the body has been kept at District hospital Ganderbal for […]

Fresh firing triggers evacuation of hundreds of families along LoC

The fresh firing by Indian and Pakistani troops today triggered migration of hundreds of families from twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch to safer places, while leaving many buildings damaged. Local residents said that the firing continued for the second day today along the Balakote sector in Poonch as well as the Manjakote area of […]

Do not politicise CPEC, Sharif says

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was “open” to all the countries in the region and the “issue must not be politicised”.  Sharif made the comments as India skipped China’s Belt and Road Summit in opposition to the planned economic route which passes through Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.  “Let me […]

Missing youth found hanging

A youth was found hanging to a tree in a village two days after he went missing from Rajouri, police sources said. The deceased, identified as 21-year-old Ravi Kumar @Gucchu son of Des Raj resident of Kentha village of Dharamsal was today found hanging to a tree in forests of nearby area.  A police official […]

For ‘Invisible’ Pollen, cutting down Poplars may prove counterproductive

Negating the commonly accepted notion that allergy is caused by pollens produced by the poplar trees in valley, medicos and environmental experts say that poplar falls last in category that causes the allergy and there are number of other causative factors that are responsible for allergy.  Dr. Ghulam Hassan, Allergist, SMHS while speaking to Kashmir […]

MHA empowers JK Governor on security issues

  Fearing a repeat of summer agitation of 2016 that left the state crippled for over six months, the Union Government is contemplating to keep plans ready so that any eventuality that surfaces in the Valley is faced with a well drafted and laid out plan. Sources in the government told ‘Kashmir Vision’ that the […]

2 LeT militants killed in Handwara encounter

 Two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed today in a joint operation by police and Army at Warpora area of Handwara. According to police a joint patrol of police and army spotted militants in the forest area at Warpora, who fired upon them. This triggered a gun battle which lasted for few hours in which two militants […]