Srinagar: Amid the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of contractual teachers teaching at the degree colleges in Kashmir for around a decade have said the Higher Education Department has denied them their salaries of a year now. The teachers, who are working as lecturers and teaching assistants at the colleges said in a statement that the […]
Srinagar: A youth was apprehended with 50 bullets in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said on Friday. A police official identified the youth as Adil Fayaz Bhat son of Fayaz Ahmad Bhat of Khiram Sarigufwara saying Bhat was apprehended at a checkpoint at Karikadal area of the south Kashmir district by the police along […]
Srinagar: Eight more people, one of them a CRPF trooper, died after contracting COVID-19 since Thursday taking the virus toll to 598 in Jammu and Kashmir. Official sources said that the victims comprise three each from Srinagar and Budgam and one each from Baramulla and Pulmama districts. They said a 74-year-old man from Kralpora […]
Poonch: A soldier shot himself dead with his service rifle along the Line of Control in Pooonch district of Jammu region, official sources said on Friday. They said the soldier, Mohit Kumar, of 39 RR died on the spot after he shot himself on head at a forward area along LoC in Mankato Sector. […]
Srinagar: Two days after Baramulla attack, militants on Friday released a video of the attack on social media. In a video purportedly shot by one the militant who was part of the attack, one of them is seen firing at security forces. Responding to the video, police said that it killed all the militants […]
Kangan: A two storey residential house was gutted in a fire mishap in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday. The house, as per local sources, belonged to Mohammad Aslam Baba son of Ghulam Mohi u Din Baba of Kullan Gund village of the district. The sources said that […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday reported 683 new COVID-19 infections taking the overall tally to 30, 717. While 569 cases were detected in Kashmir, the remaining 114 cases were detected in Jammu division, the government’s COVID-19 bulletin for the day read. As per the data, there are 6914 active COVID-19 cases in J&K while […]
Kangan: A minor girl died in a road accident in Kangan area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Thursday afternoon. Reports identified the girl as 8-year-old Aadiya Bano daughter of Mohammad Anwar Paswal, a resident of Hariganiwan Kangan adding a truck bearing registration number JK10A-2124, on it’s way from Kargil towards Srinagar hit and […]
Srinagar: At least eight persons were injured, two of them critically, when a cab they were traveling in met with an accident in Poonch district on Thursday. Official sources said that a Sumo (JK02AB-5463) on way from Bhera to Mendhar met with an accident at Mohalla Barwala in which eight persons were injured. Seven […]
Srinagar: A paramilitary CRPF trooper was among four more persons who died after contracting COVID-19 in Kashmir valley since Wednesday night, official sources said. With these deaths—one each from Baramulla, Budgam, Srinagar and Pulwama districts—the fatality count related to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir rose to 585. A 70-year-old man from Sopore Baramulla […]