Highway to open today after 7 days for traffic from Jammu to Srinagar Srinagar: A few parts of Kashmir valley, including Srinagar, received fresh snowfall on Saturday, which affected air traffic and left vehicles struggling on slippery roads. As per weather officials, the snowfall was mostly restricted to parts of central and south Kashmir. Srinagar […]
Will take two more days to make roads feasible for traffic: Executive Engineer Shopian: It has been a week now that transport in Shopian is still off the roads, with snow sliding down roofs on to roads adding to the difficulties of snow clearance. Even after day and night efforts put in by the Mechanical […]
Srinagar: Many lanes and bylanes in Srinagar city were yet to be cleared of snow by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Saturday. “No one was sent to our locality to clear snow accumulated in the lanes,” said Muzaffar, a resident of Nowshera. Zahoor Ahmad, a resident of Abu Bakar Colony in Naika Bagh, said […]
Rs 30 lakh compensation, medical aid sanctioned SRINAGAR: District administration Srinagar pressed into service essential services manpower and machinery for ensuring restoration of services in view of fresh snowfall. DC Srinagar Shahid Choudhary monitored the restoration work and visited several areas. Mechanical Engineering Department deputed 14 machines for snow clearance in main roads and link […]
Srinagar: Kashmir University’s Controller of Examinations Prof Irshad A Nawchoo said on Saturday that the Undergraduate 3rd year and OCMIL examinations scheduled to be held on Monday (January 11, 2021) are postponed. Fresh dates for the deferred examinations will be notified separately later on, he said. KR Desk
New Delhi: In a second such incident in nearly three months, a Chinese soldier was apprehended by the Indian Army at the southern bank of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh on Friday morning after he transgressed across the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), official sources said on Saturday. The capture of […]
New Delhi: India and China have maintained communication at the ground level to avoid any “misunderstandings and misjudgments” even as discussions continue for achieving complete disengagement in all friction areas, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday. Asked about the status of talks with the Chinese side over the border row, MEA Spokesperson Anurag […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported two Covid related deaths on Saturday. The deceased were residents of Jammu and Kathua districts. A total of 1,909 Covid-19 patients have died in Jammu and Kashmir so far. Of these deaths, 1,198 have been in Kashmir division and 711 in Jammu division. The number of fresh cases reported from […]
SRINAGAR: District Disaster Management Authority, Srinagar has put in place arrangements as per ICMR guidelines pursuant to foreign travellers testing positive for Covid-19 on arrival at Srinagar which includes institutional quarantine and other logistics arrangements. Guidelines have been notified for Covid-19 containment in view of new cases. Chairman District Health Society and DDMA chaired a […]
Srinagar: The outbreak of H5N1 (Avian influenza) in neighbouring states, followed by the ban on import of poultry into Jammu and Kashmir, has caused a huge drop in sales of chicken in the valley. The government order issued on Thursday banned the import of poultry and unprocessed poultry meat till January 14. The order was […]