Anantnag: The trout fish farm in Kokernag area of Anantnag district, said to be South Asia’s largest such farm, faces an existential threat as the Jal Shakti Department (JSD) is in the process of erecting a diagonal wall, for local water supply requirements, which will reduce water flow during the ‘lean period’ to the farm. […]
Anantnag: While they were still mourning the death of a senior colleague, described as “the backbone of the hospital”, doctors and other staff members at Sub-District Hospital (SDH) in Seer Hamdan area of Anantnag district were forced to suspend work and hold a protest demonstration on Monday against ‘manhandling’ of some senior doctors by local […]
Anantnag: The month of August has been a mixed bag thus far vis-à-vis the Covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir, with 35 percent of the total infections, 34 percent of the total deaths caused by the infection, and 47 percent of the total recoveries so far recorded in the first 21 days of this month. It has […]
Anantnag: Since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5 last year, train services in Kashmir have remained suspended for more than eight months. The railways has lost crores of rupees in revenue while having to pay salaries of staff that does no work. Trains in Kashmir run on the 135-kilometer Banihal-Baramulla track. They were […]
But recovery rate as good, and even better in many districts Anantnag: The Covid-19 mortality rate in the ten districts of Kashmir division at 2.2 percent is higher than the national rate of 1.9 percent. The division has reported more than 510 deaths due to the virus, a major chunk of the overall 560 deaths […]
Anantnag: An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the CRPF was wounded after militants attacked a mobile bunker of forces in Nehama village of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The injured ASI has been identified as S Sukumar of 18 Bn. CRPF. “He has a bullet injury to his foot and is stable. He has been rushed to the […]
Anantnag: Good news comes from south Kashmir’s Shopian and Kulgam districts where only one and three persons, respectively, have died this month of Covid-19. The total death toll in the ten districts of Kashmir during these fifteen days has been 126. Srinagar leads by far in this list, with 45 deaths. “25 percent of all […]
Anantnag: Thursday’s gruesome road accident on NH-44 which left 2 dead and as many critically injured in Gaelandar area in Pampore has brought to fore the dangers of the ill-planned junctions on the Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of NH-44. The accident took place in the afternoon when a speeding truck, carrying boulders, turned over and crushed a […]
Anantnag: Thursday’s gruesome road accident on NH-44 which left 2 dead and as many critically injured in Galandar area in Pampore has brought to fore the dangers of the ill-planned junctions on the Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of NH-44. The accident took place in the afternoon when a speeding truck, carrying boulders, turned over and crushed a […]
Anantnag: Police here in Anantnag have finally taken cognisance of widespread uploading of videos on social media of a person said to be differently abled. Police warned that ‘miscreants’ recording and uploading such videos will be booked under law. The said person, whom we will refer to by his first name, Shabir, lives in Khannabal […]