Misty Cine Films releases first poster of music video ‘ThodiDair’in Kashmir

Srinagar: Misty Cine Films, a Bollywood production house,unveiled its much anticipated first look poster of the musical video,Thodi Dair at a hotel here on Wednesday. The poster was simultaneously released in Mumbai also. MCF also released the first look of the much anticipated engrossing tale of romantic love anthem,2022.The song is sung by Bollywood renowned […]

Chief Secretary reviews winter preparedness

Chief Secretary reviews winter preparedness

Divisional, district control rooms to be established for prompt response Jammu: Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta on Friday chaired a meeting to review the winter preparedness, supply, and stocking of essential commodities across the Kashmir and snowbound districts of Jammu province including Kishtwar, Doda, Poonch, and Rajouri. It was informed that the divisional and […]

Driver dead, 20 tourists injured as bus turns turtle on Sgr-Jmu highway

Driver dead, 20 tourists injured as bus turns turtle on Sgr-Jmu highway

Banihal/Jammu: A mini-bus carrying tourists turned turtle inside the Banihal-Qazigund tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Tuesday, leaving the 18-year-old driver dead and 20 travellers injured, officials said. The tourists from Uttar Pradesh were returning from the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine and were on their way to Srinagar to enjoy snowfall when the driver […]

Ensure people do not suffer amid snow: NC

Ensure people do not suffer amid snow: NC

Srinagar: National Conference has asked the administration to remain wide-awake following the meteorological department’s forecast for snowfall in coming days. The Party General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar in a statement released from the party headquarters Nawa- e-Subh asked the divisional administration of both the provinces to ensure that people do not suffer due to blockade […]

MeT issues ‘orange’ alert

MeT issues ‘orange’ alert

Srinagar: Meteorological centre Srinagar on Tuesday issued an ‘orange alert’ as the present weather system of snowfall is expected to “intensify”. “As expected, weather is overcast in both J&K with widespread light rain/snow and moderate snow over higher reaches,” a MeT official said. “Present weather is likely to intensify as the day progresses. Expect Moderate […]

Saffron blooms in Rajouri district as cultivation trial bears fruit

Saffron blooms in Rajouri district as cultivation trial bears fruit

Jammu: Rajouri district came up on the saffron map of Jammu and Kashmir, when a farmer Vishal Chander Sharma successfully undertook saffron cultivation in his fields in this border district, surprising people with the purple-orange flower bloom in their neighbourhood. Influenced by the cultivation of saffron in the Kishtwar area of Jammu region, the Rajouri […]

Hajj pilgrims who are yet to receive cover no asked to approach Hajj office Srinagar

Hajj pilgrims who are yet to receive cover no asked to approach Hajj office Srinagar

SRINAGAR: The intending Hajj Pilgrims of Hajj 1443 (H), 2022(AD) who have applied for Hajj 2022 and have not received their Cover Numbers through SMS till date have been requested to approach/ contact J&K Hajj Committee in Bemina Srinagar during office hours either personally or through telephone numbers on 0194-2495365 0194-2495367, so that their Cover […]

Kashmir: Epicentre of Depression

Kashmir: Epicentre of Depression

Among every five people in Kashmir, one shows symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (IMHANS). Kashmir has been entitled as “the saddest place in the world” by psychiatrist Dr Arshad Hussain. It is not easy to live in Kashmir, for in Kashmir everyone is vulnerable to […]

Traffic decongestion plan of Kupwara town discussed

Traffic decongestion plan of Kupwara town discussed

KUPWARA: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kupwara, Imam Din Tuesday convened a meeting of concerned officers to review the traffic management and to chalk out a strategy on the decongestion of Kupwara town. Addressing the meeting, the DC urged the concerned officers and stakeholders for maximum coordination among themselves to ensure decongestion of all markets of […]

Police arrests 2 drug peddlers in Kulgam, Bandipora along with contraband

Police arrests 2 drug peddlers in Kulgam, Bandipora along with contraband

SRINAGAR: Police in a series of actions have arrested 02 drug peddlers in Kulgam & Bandipora and recovered contraband substances from their possession. In Kulgam, a Police party of PS Qaimoh at a checkpoint established at Redwani Payeen intercepted 01 suspicious person who tried to skip the checkpoint but the alert police party chased him […]