Anantnag” It has been a month-and-a-half since the heavy snowfall in south Kashmir, but the administration here in Anantnag is yet to clear several roads and sidewalks of snow. This is causing not just inconvenience to the people but obstruction to business, as the snow piled in front of shops continues to block access. Kashmir […]
Bijbehara: A powerful explosion, purportedly caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), ripped through Pazalpora area of Bijbehara town here in Anantnag district early Tuesday morning. Fortunately, despite the explosion taking place along the busy old National Highway (NH), no loss of life or injury to any person was reported due to the explosion. A […]
Anantnag: More than 50 households of Gutroo village in Tral, here in Pulwama district, remain cut off from the rest of the world for most of the year in absence of a bridge — which successive governments have been promising but none have built. Nestled between the high and mighty Vastoorvan mountain range and a […]
Anantnag: While the central government has extended the deadline, from January 1 to February 15, for mandatory FastTag on vehicles, the toll plaza at Kai-Chachkoot on NH-44 has already withdrawn all ‘benefits’ for commuters travelling across the toll post. “The toll post here works as per their free will. They have abolished a two-way pass […]
R&B fails to construct approach roads Anantnag: A bridge that cost more than 8 crore rupees, has been lying defunct for more than six years now and the Roads and Buildings Department (R&B) has failed to construct the approach roads on both sides of it, here in Sallar area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. R&B’s […]
Anantnag: Work at the Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH), here in Anantnag town, remains seriously hampered for the fact that there is no Medical Superintendent (MS) post allotted to the hospital and the overall work is monitored by a toothless Medical Officer. The hospital, in Sherbagh area of Anantnag town, is the only such […]
suAnantnag: The trout fish farm in Kokernag in Anantnag district, considered one of Asia’s largest such farm, is not just realising but perhaps surpassing expectations as more than 7 lakh eyed-ova (fish seeds) have been exported to different states for rearing, including to Sikkim, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The number of eyed-ova supplied to […]
‘No idea what’s going on’: youth’s father Anantnag: A youth from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district was deported from Qatar and then arrested at New Delhi’s IGI Airport by a police team from Kulgam for his alleged involvement in a militancy related-case in Kashmir. The youth has been identified as 24-year-old Munib Ahmad Sofi, son of […]
Anantnag: Several LPG agencies in Anantnag town charge consumers for home delivery of cylinders but do not deliver the cylinders at homes, even though the district administration has been trying its best to make them do so. Successive Deputy Commissioners of this south Kashmir district have been promising to pull up these gas agencies for […]
Tried to escape from a residential house by opening fire: Police Anantnag: In the first gunfight this year between militants and government forces, three militants, believed to be associated with Hizb ul Mujahideen, were killed here in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday. Kashmir Range Inspector General of Police (IGP) Vijay Kumar […]