Police file case Anantnag: A 28-year-old, mother of two kids is battling for her life at a Srinagar hospital with more than 80 percent burns after being set on fire, allegedly by her in-laws in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The incident took place in Akura village of Anantnag late Thursday evening, a police official told […]
Anantnag: Work on a proposed mini-secretariat here in Dooru area of Anantnag district has remained abandoned since 2018, months after the project was taken up for construction by the Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC). The mini-secretariat was sanctioned in early 2018 during the tenure of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party […]
83 cases every day on average; Srinagar has 66% of cases Anantnag: In the past twenty-five days, since March 1, the number of active cases of Corovid-19 in Kashmir division has increased by almost 100 percent, even as Srinagar district continues to be the epicenter of the pandemic in Kashmir. The resurgence of the virus […]
Anantnag: The people of Akura area, here in Anantnag district, go to the same place for health care as the local cattle – at the so-called New Type Primary Health Centre (NTPHC) that shares its building as well as entrance with the local veterinary unit. The health department, for the past five years now, has […]
Anantnag: Even as Kashmir is hoping for a decent tourist season this summer, after more than half a decade of downward spiral in footfall, Pahalgam continues to remain without a Tourist Reception Centre (TRC), six years after the old TRC was gutted in a blaze. In 2014, a massive blaze in the main market of […]
Anantnag: The traffic policemen deployed here in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district are actually adding to the traffic mess by stopping vehicles in the busy market for “document checking”, mostly during the rush hour. Commuters and local shopkeepers in Goriwan market of Bijbehara — on either side of the old National Highway — lament that […]
ANANTNAG: Hundreds of passenger vehicles such as Sumo and Tavera cabs coming from different parts of south Kashmir in particular.are not being allowed into Srinagar city through Batwara area. Instead, the vehicles are stopped at Pantha Chowk and the drivers are asked to make a detour through Lasjan to enter the city. Thousands of people, […]
Anantnag: Several small-time caterers and restaurant owners who supplied food to people kept in administrative quarantine at the peak of the pandemic last year will have to wait another year to get their dues cleared by the administration, here in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, as Covid-19 funds have dried up. The payments of these caterers […]
Anantnag: Two indoor stadiums here in Pulwama and Shopian districts of south Kashmir are yet to be completed four years after they were sanctioned and two years after they missed the first deadline for completion. The government, with an aim to engage youth in constructive and productive activities, had proposed and sanctioned two indoor stadia […]
Anantnag: A pending inspection of the material procured by contractors, by the Material & Procurement (M&P) wing of the Public Health Engineering Department (PHE), is causing inordinate delay in implementation of the Prime Minister’s Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), here in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. The JJM is a flagship scheme of the central government […]