Srinagar: Two army soldiers were killed on Thursday afternoon in a militant attack carried out in busy HMT area on the outskirts of Srinagar. Police identified the slain as Sepoy Ratan (163 BN) and Sepoy Deshmukh of Territorial Army (101 BN). The attack was carried out by militants at about 1:15 pm in the busy […]
Anantnag: Construction of the mini-secretariat in Tral town in Pulwama district, being carried out sluggishly ever since the sanctioning of the project in 2017, has now been put to a complete halt as the funds for the project have dried up. The new mini-secretariat was sanctioned with the aim to cut down travel time and […]
Anantnag: Even though it is still higher than the national average, the mortality rate due to Covid-19 in Kashmir division has been declining steadily over the past few months – ever so slightly. The ten districts of Kashmir have so far recorded a total of 64,161 cases of Covid-19 infection out of which 1.074 people […]
Anantnag: The sluggish pace of work on the indoor stadium being built here in Rajpora area of Pulwama district has left sports enthusiasts as well as the general public of the area disappointed. The stadium was sanctioned in late 2016 and the construction work was started in 2017 by a Chandigarh-based contractor. The stadium was […]
Anantnag: Twelve civilians, one of them a woman, were injured Wednesday evening in a grenade attack carried out by militants on government forces here in Kakapora area of Pulwama district, health and police officials said. The grenade exploded in the main chowk of Kakapora at about 5:45 PM when militants targeted a joint party of […]
Anantnag: Srinagar, the most populous of the ten districts in Kashmir valley, continues to be the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic with a growing share in the number of Covid-19 cases as well as deaths reported in the past month. The four districts in south Kashmir region, meanwhile, continue to do well in their fight […]
Anantnag: Work on the vital Bijbehara-Shopian road, here in south Kashmir, is held up because funds under a central government scheme have been coming in trickles, as per officials of the executing agency — the Roads and Buildings (R&B) Department. Roughly a 27-kilometre road that connects dozens of villages between Bijbehara in Anantnag district and […]
Anantnag: The homes of four people who had purchased the ancestral land of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti a few years ago were on Saturday raided by sleuths of the CID wing of police here in Bijbehara town of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. They were among others whose offices, shops and homes were raided in […]
Anantnag: The payments of five caterers who supplied food to people put in administrative quarantine here in Anantnag are held up for more than 3 months now, with the administration citing lack of funds. The quarantine centers were set up in schools, colleges, hotels and other places soon after the coronavirus reached Kashmir. Travellers and […]
Anantnag: The family of a labourer from Kulgam who died in judicial custody Sunday night has said that they had no idea about his illness, for they had not been allowed to meet him for more than seven months now. Ali Muhammad Wani, 42, son of Habibullah Wani, a resident of Katrasoo village in Kulgam […]