Kashmir reports twice as many new cases, deaths as Jammu Srinagar: Covid-19 claimed another 23 lives and infected 1,440 more persons in a period of 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir, the official Covid bulletin reported on Sunday. The bulletin said that 8 deaths were reported in Jammu Division and 15 in Kashmir Division. The […]
SRINAGAR: During COVID-19 restrictions, the Department of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) has distributed a massive 103209 MTs of foodgrains among the beneficiaries across all the 20 districts of Jammu & Kashmir last month while distribution of foodgrains for the current month has been already started by the Department from 3rd June. According […]
Dr Irfan Iqbal is the only person in J&K to have suffered post-Covid complication of acute transverse myeletis SRINAGAR: Dr Irfan Iqbal has been confined to a wheelchair for nearly 10 months since an infection in his spinal cord disabled movement in his lower part of the body. Dr Iqbal, however, still goes to hospital […]
Srinagar: Hundreds of doctors and paramedics in Jammu and Kashmir have been braving the odds in their fight against COVID-19 since last year and many of them are leading the challenge even now when vaccination against the dreaded disease is going on. There are many stories of courage, commitment and determination of countless frontline workers […]
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday announced to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of Muslim nations in Islamabad next year to highlight the issue of Kashmir and get their support. He was addressing a gathering of political workers of his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party in his home town of Multan. “If God […]
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday discussed the upcoming Amarnath Yatra and security of J&K with Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla in New Delhi. Amarnath yatra was scheduled to begin on June 28 and last till August 22 but the government is yet to decide whether to carry it as per schedule. Shri Amarnath […]
Describes his 13-year journey from journo to a politician a saga of deceit and double dealing Srinagar/New Delhi: Senior PDP leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, a close aide of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, was an asset for militant outfits and his 13 years’ journey from 2007 as a journalist and politician was a […]
Shopian: The government’s claims of having stopped the sale of spurious fungicides and pesticides in Kashmir sound like a pack of lies as every second day brings reports, from different parts of the valley, of damage caused to fruit orchards due to these spurious or substandard products. Recently, photographs of damaged leaves in a big […]
Anantnag: Seven civilians were injured Sunday afternoon in a mysterious blast which, sources said, was a grenade attack, here in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. One of the injured has been shifted to SMHS hospital in Srinagar for further treatment. “He is stable but needs some tests to be run, which is why […]
Jammu: A minor explosion took place outside the house of a sarpanch in Rajouri district of Jammu on Sunday, triggering panic among the local residents, officials said. The blast took place outside the house of Sarpanch Sushma Kumari at Androla village in Chakli area of Chingus along the Jammu-Poonch highway around 1 am, causing damage […]