Anantnag: Police in Anantnag have detained two women – the daughter and the wife – of the man accused of assaulting Power Development Department (PDD) employees, despite the fact that their name was not in the list of assailants. On December 1, the official handle of Executive Engineer PDD Anantnag shared an undated video wherein […]
Vessu industrial estate lacks street lights, water Anantnag: The industrial unit holders here at Vessu Industrial Estate are facing difficulties due to lack of water supply and street lights – after waiting for more than a decade-and-a-half for the estate to get functional. The estate, based on 250 kanals of land, in Vessu area of […]
Anantnag: Police today said that they have killed two Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants – one of them a Pakistani commander of the outfit and another a local militant, an IED expert – in a pre-dawn gunfight in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. “It is a huge success,” Inspector General of Police (IGP) Vijay Kumar was quoted […]
Anantnag: Indoor farming of the world’s costliest spice, saffron, is turning out to be a reality in Kashmir where farmers have successfully carried out the cultivation this season. Experts are banking upon the method to turn around the dwindling fortunes of saffron farming in Kashmir valley. Thousands of kanals of land are used for saffron […]
Anantnag: At south Kashmir’s only Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH), here in Sher Bagh area of Anantnag town, the Radiology section remains defunct through evenings and nights, much to the horror of the patients arriving at the hospital from not only Anantnag but from other southern districts as well. The Radiology block of the […]
Pampore: It has been eleven years since the touted National Saffron Mission (NSM) was launched here in Kashmir, but there has been no fresh assessment of the land under saffron cultivation in the valley, leaving even the officials in the agriculture department wondering. The last assessment of the land under saffron cultivation was carried out […]
Unlike last year, nights are colder, days warmer this month Anantnag: The MeT department in Kashmir has predicted that there will be no major snowfall in the next two weeks, which might mean colder nights and warmer days will continue, unlike last year when snowfall started early in November. “There are meagre chances of snowfall […]
8 militants killed in four gunfights in a week in Kulgam Anantnag: Police said that a district commander of Hizbul Mujahideen was killed in a gunfight in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Saturday. The slain militant has been identified as Mudasir Ahmad Wagay son of Mohammad Jamal, a resident of Malwan village in Kulgam […]
Anantnag: The Covid infection tally of November has already surpassed the October tally in Kashmir even as the death toll attributed to the infection is highest in as many as five months. The ten districts of Kashmir valley have had a total infection tally of 210449 since the beginning of the pandemic. 2279 people have […]
Anantnag: Police on Wednesday said that they along with army and the CRPF killed at least four militants, one of them a commander of The Resistance Front (TRF) militant outfit, in two different gunfights here in Kulgam district. The commander of TRF has been identified as Afaq Sikander by the police. The other three militants […]