Srinagar: Nearly one-and-a-half month after the vaccination drive started, authorities have decided to conclude the Covid-19 vaccination for health care workers on February 25 while the facility for the front line workers will remain on for more time. State Immunisation Officer Dr Qazi Haroon told Kashmir Reader that about 60 percent of healthcare workers have […]
Srinagar: No Covid related death but 58 fresh cases were reported in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. It said that of the 58 new positive cases reported, 11 were from Jammu division and 47 from Kashmir division It also said that 46 patients recovered and were discharged from various hospitals in the last 24 hours, […]
SRINAGAR: Incharge Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary Tuesday said that school transport will operate as usual from March 1 when schools reopen across Kashmir division. He said this after chairing a meeting with representatives of private schools associations in which concerns surrounding operation of school transport were discussed in detail. Speaking during the […]
Banihal/Jammu: Hundreds of labourers went on a sudden strike on Tuesday, affecting the ongoing work on the double-tube 8.5-km Banihal-Qazigund tunnel along the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, officials said. The tunnel is nearing completion and is expected to be opened for public use by March-end. “Local labourers stayed away from work and also did not […]
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Government today sanctioned the transfer of functions and functionaries regarding several divisions of Jal Shakti Department to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) as mandated under 74thConstitutional Amendment. In this regard an order issued here today by the Jal Shakti Department accorded the transfer of Jal Shakti (PHE) City Division-I Jammu, Jal […]
BARAMULLA: The fire incident in Sultandaki Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district claimed one more life and the toll of death reached three. Officials confirm that a woman injured in the incident succumbed to her injuries Tuesday at SKIMS two days after her son succumbed. Five people including mother son were received burn injuries on […]
Srinagar: Cyber Police Kashmir Zone have recovered lost mobile phones worth lakhs of rupees and handed them over to the rightful owners. Besides online frauds, scams and other cyber related crimes being reported to Cyber Police Kashmir Zone, complaints regarding missing mobile phones are also received on a routine basis. During the month of February […]
Srinagar: Darul Khair Mirwaiz Manzil has expressed deep anguish over huge loss of property due to fire incident at Ganderpora Eidgah area of Srinagar’s Shaher-e-Khaas in which half a dozen of residential houses were gutted. It expressed heartfelt solidarity and sympathy with all the affected families and stressed for their immediate rehabilitation in view of […]
Experts urge greater focus on mitigation and adaptation strategies Srinagar: Vice-Chancellor of University of Kashmir Prof Talat Ahmad on Tuesday chaired the first meeting of a Working Group on Climate Change constituted by the varsity to address pressing concerns and challenges related to it. Addressing the WG members from academia, government and civil society, Prof […]
BARAMULLA: A residential house gutted in a fire incident in Hartrath village of Pattan on Tuesday morning resulting in the property worth lakh’s reduced in to ashes. The fire broke out in the house of Abdul Ahad Waza son of Ghulam Mohammad Waza in Hartrath village in Pattan on Tuesday wee hours and damaged the […]