Beijing: The global environment for building projects under China’s BRI is becoming increasingly complex, President Xi Jinping has said, encouraging officials to seize the strategic opportunities and actively respond to challenges facing his multi-billion-dollar pet initiative, which is set to face competition from the US’ B3W plan. Xi on Friday called for efforts to continue […]
Anantnag: The Covid infection tally of November has already surpassed the October tally in Kashmir even as the death toll attributed to the infection is highest in as many as five months. The ten districts of Kashmir valley have had a total infection tally of 210449 since the beginning of the pandemic. 2279 people have […]
Srinagar: Two Covid deaths were reported in Kashmir while 187 fresh Covid-19 cases were recorded in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, an official bulletin said. It said that the cases include 163 from Kashmir and 24 from Jammu division. Moreover, 158 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from various hospitals including 34 from […]
Leh: Ladakh reported 28 new cases of COVID-19 in the last one day, pushing the overall tally to 21,298, officials said on Saturday. Of 224 active cases in the Union Territory, Leh has 216 and Kargil eight, the officials said. Out of 2069 tests conducted on Friday, 27 returned positive in Leh and one in […]
New Delhi: Witnessing a rise in weekly Covid cases, testing and positivity rate, the Union Health Ministry has written to Puducherry and Ladakh urging them to take pre-emptive action to gain control over the situation. Earlier, the ministry had asked state governments of Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir to undertake a review […]
Shopian: Kashmir continues to reel under intense cold with Shopian recording coldest night of season at minus 5 degree Celsius. The night temperature at Awantipora was also recorded at 4.6 degree Celsius which was second lowest in any part of Kashmir after Shopian. The intense cold wave in the mid November has resulted in immense […]
Srinagar: The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh upheld the regularization of services of orderlies working in the Transport department. The court while upholding the writ court judgment pointed out that any intermittent break of one or two days in service would not disrupt the continuance in service as such breaks are artificially […]
Shopian: Residents of Chotipora Imamsahab village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district are facing an acute shortage of potable water for the past five years due to a damaged water pipeline in the area. According to residents, the village comprising around 100 households has been reeling under an acute shortage of drinking water due to the […]
Srinagar: Amid Covid-19 SOPs and guidelines, the class 10 annual examination 2021 being conducted by the J&K Board of School Education (BOSE) commenced across Kashmir from Saturday. Around 74000 students have registered for the examination for which the BOSE has set up 739 examination centres in government and private schools across Kashmir. An official said […]
SRINAGAR: On the directions of Secretary Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (DMRRR), Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (M), Ashok Pandita, conducted a week long tour of Kashmir to assess and sort out problems being faced by the Migrant Employees in the valley. In this connection, he met several concerned officers and discussed issues […]