Sudden spike in district; 2 more deaths in Jammu division Srinagar: Two Covid related deaths – one each from Jammu and Samba districts – and 176 fresh Covid cases, 73 of them in just one district – Reasi – were reported during the last 24 hours in JK, according to the official daily bulletin issued […]
Leh: Ladakh recorded 10 more COVID-19 cases on Thursday and the active cases have risen to 82 in the union territory, officials said. All the 10 persons testing positive for the virus were from Leh district, they said. The total number of cases in the UT has gone up now 20,421, the officials said. Two […]
Protestors out on streets against ‘negligent’ officials and staff Kupwara: A daily-wager working for the Power Development Department (PDD) was electrocuted while repairing a transmission line in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday evening. Mohammad Ashraf Hajam, a resident of Gutlipora village of Kupwara, was repairing a transmission wire in his own village on Wednesday […]
Srinagar: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Thursday directed Government authorities to inform the court about the completion of demarcation of the Sindh Nalla (river) and actions taken for the removal of encroachments identified earlier. A division bench of Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sanjay Dhar passed this direction after […]
Srinagar: The government of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday ordered transfer and postings of several officers including JKAS officers. In an order, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the government ordered transfer and posting of 5 JKAS officers in different departments of the UT. According to the order Sajid […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government has constituted an inter-departmental working group for establishing a Tribal Research Institute (TRI) to be funded by the government of India, an official spokesperson said on Thursday. An order to constitute the ‘working group’ has been issued by the General Administration department based on a proposal moved by the […]
Kathua: A Jammu and Kashmir policeman was allegedly shot dead here by his colleague who fired using his service rifle after a heated argument between them, officials said Thursday. The incident happened late last night at the district police line (DPL) after Selection Grade Constable (SGCT) Iqbal Singh allegedly fired shots at Havildar Mohd Younus, […]
Shopian: Safnagri is the lone village in Shopian district where people grow vegetables instead of fruits, on more than 400 kanals of land in the village, but despite their efforts towards a mini green revolution, they have been denied irrigation facilities by a government that doesn’t seem to care. Villagers in Safnagri told Kashmir Reader […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir governor Karan Singh on Thursday urged the government to take up de-weeding of the Dal lake, saying the water body was the “glory of Kashmir” and it was extremely painful to see its steady deterioration. The senior Congress leader said each year when he comes to Srinagar, he finds that […]
Kabul: The Taliban captured a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, the 10th the insurgents have taken in a week-long sweep across Afghanistan just weeks before the end of the American military mission there. Seizing Ghazni cuts off a crucial highway linking the Afghan capital with the country’s southern provinces, which similarly find themselves […]