Number of patients hospitalised also up this month Anantnag: The resurgence of Covid-19 is evident here in Kashmir valley, with as many as 1,113 cases – about 50 percent of August’s total tally – being reported in just the first twelve days of September. With such an increase in numbers, the active cases as well […]
BIJBEHARA: People here in Bijbehara town of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district rue that they are going through the “worst” drinking water crisis but the administration is still unmoved by their plight. Locals say that either there is no water supply for days or the water supplied is so filthy that it is not fit for […]
Born in downtown, the jailed 50-year-old has served more than 20 years in jail Srinagar: Days after Kashmir’s staunchest pro-Pakistan leader, Syed Ali Geelani, passed away, his protégé Masrat Alam Bhat, who is behind bars, has been made the new chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC). In a statement issued to the media, the […]
Parliamentary panel to probe the appointment Srinagar: The Composite Regional Centre (CRC) – for skill development, rehabilitation and empowerment for persons with disabilities – has appointed its director in clear violation of eligibility norms as well as of directives from the Central government. “The chosen candidate is not even eligible for the post,” sources at […]
Anantnag: More than 31 percent of Covid cases reported in the month of August have been witnessed in the last week of the month, here in the ten districts of Kashmir valley, a clear indication that the infection is on a rise, yet again. The world over, people are battling the Delta variant with travel […]
Anantnag: The government seems to have shelved the much-needed upgrade of Lasjan-Pampore-Pulwama road as no further action has been initiated after the call for tenders was made in 2019. The road, a vital one, connects Pampore town to the rest of Pulwama district and is an important alternative link to Srinagar city. An upgrade of […]
Anantnag: The deadly second wave of Covid-19 in Kashmir seems to be long over, in everyone’s eyes. Hospital bed occupancy has come down to 1.6 percent, with only 57 Covid patients admitted across the 25 hospitals designated for treatment of the disease in Kashmir division. All is not well, though. The numbers have been rising, […]
‘They have not been able to contribute even an iota to promoting cricket in Kashmir,’ say cricketers of JKCA Bijbehara: Restricting cricketers registered with the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) from playing in local leagues, and the subsequent mail to Kashmir’s cricketing star, Parvez Rasool, accusing him of “stealing” a pitch-roller, is being seen […]
The first one in the family to pick up arms was Sheikh’s elder brother, Ibrahim, who became one of the first militants in Kashmir in the early ’90s Anantnag: Most-wanted Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant Abbas Sheikh, who was killed by policemen in plainclothes in Srinagar on Monday, was the seventeenth militant in his immediate and extended […]
Work on new building drags on, though CMO says it will be complete in ‘3 months’ Anantnag: Seven years after it was declared unsafe by the Roads and Buildings department, the battered building of Sub-District Hospital (SDH) Bijbehara continues to be the only health facility that thousands of people visit day in and day out, […]