172 militants, 42 of them foreign killed in Kashmir in 2022: ADGP

172 militants, 42 of them foreign killed in Kashmir in 2022: ADGP

Says militant recruitment falls by 30 percent, people reluctant to provide shelter to militants Srinagar: In 2022, at least 227 people were killed in Kashmir in incidents of violence including gunfights, attacks, and targeted killings. More than seventy-five percent of the slain were militants, most of them locals. The information was given out today by […]

6 years gone, overhead Railway pass on NH-44 far from completion

6 years gone, overhead Railway pass on NH-44 far from completion

NHAI and R&B Dept both have no idea who is executing the project Anantnag: More than five years after the NH-44 was thrown open for traffic, an overhead Railway pass in Anantnag district remains far from completion, causing severe inconvenience to the commuters day in and day out. The delay in its completion has also […]

8 years after TRC Pahalgam was gutted, no headway on its reconstruction

8 years after TRC Pahalgam was gutted, no headway on its reconstruction

Anantnag: Pahalgam, arguably the most famous tourist destination of the Kashmir valley and thronged by thousands of tourists every year, continues to function without a Tourist Reception Centre (TRC), more than eight years after the old TRC building was gutted in a massive blaze. This is despite the fact that a record-breaking number of tourists […]

PHC running out of shop by pharmacist in absence of doctor

PHC running out of shop by pharmacist in absence of doctor

Anantnag: For the last more than ten years now, the Primary Health Centre (PHC), here in the Gadol area of Kokernag in the Anantnag district, has been running from a cramped shop in the area. There are no doctors deputed to the PHC and no necessary medical equipment required at such a center. Only one […]

5 months after inauguration, Pattan Indoor Stadium yet to open

5 months after inauguration, Pattan Indoor Stadium yet to open

An inter-departmental tiff, as per sources, has played spoilsport Srinagar: More than five months after it was inaugurated, with much pomp and show, the Pattan Indoor Stadium in Baramulla district continues to remain out of bounds for sports enthusiasts, much to their dismay. An inter-departmental tiff, as per sources, has played spoilsport. The indoor stadium […]

‘Rate lists’ ignored by traders, people complain in Anantnag

‘Rate lists’ ignored by traders, people complain in Anantnag

‘Everyone adheres to displaying the rate list and the other guidelines’, says Consumer Affairs official Anantnag: Despite repeated issuance of “rate lists” by the administration, the adherence to them by shopkeepers is almost negligible in most parts of Anantnag district. Traders here are often found indulging in the malpractice of selling commodities way above the […]

No headway in moving school sandwiched between bandsaw mills in Kulgam

No headway in moving school sandwiched between bandsaw mills in Kulgam

Kulgam: There has been no headway into saving more than 150 school children from the “life-altering” effects of spending their days in the middle of two bandsaw mills, despite the identification of land for the construction of a new school building here in Motelhama village of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Instead, the Education department keeps […]

Two kids, aged 5 and 7, die of Hepatitis-A in Anantnag village, four more test positive

Two kids, aged 5 and 7, die of Hepatitis-A in Anantnag village, four more test positive

Anantnag: Two kids, aged seven and five, succumbed to the viral Hepatitis-A infection even as four other kids have tested positive for the virus, here in a south Kashmir village administered by both Anantnag and Kulgam districts. Hepatitis-A belongs to a group of viruses that attack the liver. It is commonly passed through contaminated water […]