ANANTNAG: Doctors at the Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital and the Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH), which is also associated with the GMC, on Monday held a token strike against what they termed as undue interference of revenue officials in the working of these hospitals. The strike was held a day after Deputy Commissioner […]
Anantnag: The Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH) in Anantnag is facing an acute shortage of doctors for a long time now, much to the inconvenience of the people who throng the hospital from all over south Kashmir and from Chenab valley region as well. The hospital is the only one of its kind in […]
DC initiates enquiry Anantnag: The Auditorium in Government Degree College (GDC) Boys in Anantnag on Friday suffered severe damages after its roof collapsed due to the weight of snow. However, no one was in the auditorium at the time of incident. The building constructed by the Roads and Buildings Department (R&B) and inaugurated in 2015 […]
Anantnag: Asserting that her father’s vision of “reconciliation and dialogue” was the need of the hour, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said that the erstwhile state has further drifted away from New Delhi after abrogation of Article 370. She was talking to media persons after offering prayers at the […]
Anantnag: A day after the heaviest snowfall of the season, many areas here in Anantnag district remain cut off as roads have not been cleared of snow, while power supply has not been restored yet for dozens of villages. Such is the situation at a time when the meteorological department has forecast more snowfall in […]
Anantnag: The administration here in Anantnag district came a cropper in its response to the emergencies due to heavy snowfall on Sunday, be it the clearance of roads or the restoration of power supply. Like all other parts of the valley, Anantnag district received heavy snowfall throughout the day and into the evening. The local […]
Anantnag: Eight civilians, two of them women, were injured in a grenade attack carried out on government forces here in Tral town of Pulwama district on Saturday. The injured have been identified as Javid Ahmad Ganai, Wali Mohd Rather, Muhammad Abdullhah, Muhammad Tabish, Shazada Akhtar, Taja Begum, Shaheena Akhtar and Bilal Ahmad Naik. The injured […]
Anantnag: The family members of a woman who was murdered in the house of her in-laws on December 6 held a protest outside the office of Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Kokernag here on Thursday, alleging that the police were lax in carrying out the investigation. Nousheena, 28, mother of three toddlers, married to Hilal Ahmad Bhat, […]
Srinagar: Former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday that her party had “bottled the djinn called BJP” before entering into an alliance with it, but the Hurriyat leaders did not reciprocate to the advances made to them for resolving the Kashmir issue. “In English we say, ‘we had bottled the djinn’. On our […]
Anantnag: While the general public continues to reel under frequent power cuts, work on a 10 Mega Volt Ampere (MVA) receiving station here in Pampore town is still incomplete even after three years. The receiving station was sanctioned under the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP), its location chosen behind the LPG filling station in Litterbal […]