NOC still awaited from two departments, funds also not enough ANANTNAG: Almost no work has been done on a Water Supply Scheme, here in Dachnipora area of Anantnag district, more than 14 years after it was sanctioned with the aim to provide potable drinking water to about twenty villages. This water supply scheme in Pahalgam […]
Four-and-a-half hour cuts in metered areas, eight hours in non-metered areas Srinagar: After facing a shortage as well as erratic power supply for over a month now, the Jammu and Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JKPDCL) issued a curtailment schedule for Srinagar on Monday. It announced a four-and-a-half-hour curtailment for metered areas, whereas the non-metered […]
Children going to three schools via the road now ‘being kept at home’ Anantnag: Maintenance work on the road to Hallan village in Kulgam district, declared as a tourist village by the government recently, has turned it into a complete mess, leaving locals and students of at least three government schools affected adversely. The road […]
Anantnag: Two non-local laborers were shit at and injured, by unidentified gunmen, late Saturday evening here in the Arwini area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, the police said. Police were yet to identify the injured, officially. Sources in the police, however, said that the injured are residents of the Gorakhpur area in Uttar Pradesh and […]
Anantnag: The Zonal Education Office in Anantnag is being asked to vacate a government accommodation by the authorities and ironically no one appears to be in a position to answer the “why” of the entire situation. The Anantnag ZEO office had been functioning from a run-down, unsafe, and rented accommodation in the Kadipora area of […]
Anantnag: A Jaish-e-Muhammad militant, who was a Pakistani national, was killed in a gunfight with government forces Friday in Shopian district of South Kashmir, police said. The slain militant has been identified as Hanees, alias Kamran Bhai. “The slain has been active along the Kulgam-Shopian border for over seven to eight months now,” Superintendent of […]
Anantnag: A year short of two decades since it was sanctioned, the Sub-District Hospital in Qaimoh area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district is yet to be handed over to the health department. Thousands of people are suffering for lack of healthcare and remain dependent on the old Public Health Centre, where the lack of facilities […]
Qamarwari area is known to have the worst traffic snarls in entire Srinagar city Srinagar: Eleven years after work was first started on it, one of the most vital bridges in Srinagar city, the “cement bridge” in Qamarwari area, still remains far from completion. This first concrete bridge over Jhelum in Kashmir is a vital […]
Anantnag: A massive blaze engulfed and gutted more than four structures, including at least three residential houses, Saturday afternoon here in the Kapran area of Verinag in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. There has been no loss of life or injuries caused to anyone in the fire incident. The incident took place in Yakerbolu Bala village […]
Anantnag: Over a hundred band-saws, operating in residential areas of at least three villages in Anantnag district, are causing massive air pollution as they burn leftover wood to make coal for kangdis. Dozens of people have fallen sick in these villages, most of them children and the elderly. As per sources in the administration, there […]