Anantnag: Not only are the daily Covid cases reported in Jammu and Kashmir spiralling down in recent days, the positivity rate of the Covid tests conducted daily has also dropped substantially and is now a little lower than what it was at the beginning of January. There has been a considerable decrease in the hospitalisation […]
Anantnag: At least 17 teachers in three government schools in Anantnag zone here have been placed under suspension after all their 30 students who appeared in the Class 10 JKBOSE Board exams failed. “Zero percent results in Class 10th in these three schools has prompted the department to take such action,” an official in the […]
Anantnag: An inspection hut at Kokernag Trout Farm, arsoned during the protests of 2016, is yet to be completed as the reconstruction has been agonisingly slow. The hut was set on fire on July 10 of 2016, a day after Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed in Bemdoora area of Kokernag in Anantnag district. Police […]
Anantnag: Putting lives at risk, the Power Development Department (PDD) has run the 33KVA charging lines through residential areas, in close vicinity to the 11KVA lines, for a newly constructed receiving station here in Anantnag district. The Aad-Khposhipora receiving station, with a total capacity of 6.3 Mega Watts (MW), was inaugurated on Tuesday, and is […]
‘Race-course’ built instead of stream, now will be dismantled Anantnag: The contractor entrusted with the development of a stream at Kokernag’s Trout Fish Farm has instead made a “race-course”, an artificial water channel also known as raceway, allegedly in connivance with the engineering wing of the Fisheries department. The Fisheries department, though, is blaming the […]
Locals make merry, pick fish from the dried-up length of the Nallah Anantnag: More than 500 metres of Brengi Nallah here in Anantnag district has been left dry after a sinkhole developed in Wandevalgam area of the district, into which all the water of the Nallah is vanishing down. Locals, though, made merry as they […]
Anantnag: The number of deaths caused due to Covid has been on a rise in Jammu and Kashmir despite a significant fall in the number of infections as well as the hospitalisation rate. On Wednesday, only 681 new infections were recorded from across Jammu and Kashmir, which is considerably lower than what was witnessed through […]
Anantnag: As the number of infections has been coming down, February has also witnessed a decline in the daily Covid test positivity rate in Jammu and Kashmir compared to the month of January. The drop in positivity rates is quite significant when compared to the mid and latter part of January. On February 3, a […]
Official says ‘working really hard to make it happen’, but sources say even land not identified Anantnag: There has been no headway in the construction of a Solid Waste Management Project (SWMP) more than a year after the project was mentioned in the “vision document” for Pulwama district. Thousands of tonnes of waste continue to […]
Slain teenager was ‘hybrid militant’, house owner’s family to be booked under UAPA: Police Anantnag: Three militants and a civilian, termed as a “hybrid militant” by police, were killed in a gunfight between government forces and militants here in Pulwama district, police said on Sunday. The slain militants, police said, were all members of Jaish-e-Muhammad […]