Anantnag: The district president of BJP’s Kissan Morcha in Kulgam and his wife were shot dead at their rented accommodation here in Lal Chowk area of Anantnag district late Monday afternoon. The slain politician, also a Sarpanch, has been identified as Ghulam Rasool Dar, son of late Ghulam Hassan, a resident of Redwini Bala area […]
Anantnag: Militants attacked a police party in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, leaving a policeman dead, on Saturday evening. The slain policeman has been identified as Nisar Ahmad. “The rest of the details about the slain are being ascertained,” a local police source told Kashmir Reader. The incident took place at about 7:00 PM, here […]
Anantnag: More than a month after the LG’s June-end deadline for completion of vaccination of 45-plus age group, as many as seven districts in J&K are yet to achieve the target. The seven districts short of achieving the target include two in Kashmir division and five in Jammu division. Srinagar and Kupwara districts of Kashmir […]
Anantnag: Dozens of roads in main town Anantnag have been dug to lay sanitation pipes under “AMRUT” scheme, but have been left with only mud on the surface, much to the inconvenience and peril of the local population. Three years have passed since the departments have been blaming each other for the mess. The roads […]
Bed occupancy goes down further to 2.4% in Kashmir Anantnag: Seventeen of the 25 Covid designated hospitals in Kashmir valley have no Covid patient admitted. The hospital bed occupancy for Covid patients has come down to only 2.4 percent from 4.4 percent in the middle of July in Kashmir. Fresh cases of Covid-19 have been […]
IAF choppers unable to make sorties due to weather since morning Srinagar: Hope is dwindling for the rescue of 19 persons who have been missing since Wednesday morning after a cloudburst washed away an entire village in Chenab Valley region of Jammu and Kashmir, leaving 7 people dead and 17 others injured. More than 60 […]
80 residential houses damaged in Bijbehara, MeT predicts heavy to very heavy rainfall till Friday Srinagar: Seven bodies have so far been retrieved from the debris of 19 residential houses that were washed away, along with as many as 40 people, after a cloudburst hit remote Honzar Dachchan village of Kishtwar district in Chenab valley […]
Militant killed on Monday said to be Shopian youth who joined Lashkar in 2017 Anantnag: The nightlong operation in the forest area of Aharbal, here in Kulgam district, was concluded Tuesday morning following a combing operation and no fresh contact being established with any other militants. Police had said on Monday evening that one “unidentified” […]
Anantnag: Imran Dar, the “militant” that was killed early Sunday morning in a gunfight with government forces in Yaripora area of Kulgam, had no militant connections whatsoever and he was killed in a fake encounter, his family has alleged. Abdul Qayoom Dar, the father of Imran, has also written a letter to Deputy Commissioner Anantnag […]
Anantnag: The total number of active cases of Covid-19 in Kashmir is in three figures for the first time since the beginning of the second wave. At the same time, the hospital bed occupancy in the ten districts of Kashmir division is a little more than three percent. The active cases dipped below the 1,000 […]