Traffic to be allowed from Srinagar towards both Jammu and Kargil today Srinagar: As New Year’s eve drew closer, the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir received fresh snowfall while the plains of Kashmir valley received light snowfall on Tuesday, leaving the entire valley carpeted with fresh snow. The snowfall on Tuesday marked the second […]
Jammu: Four flights to and from the Jammu airport were cancelled and seven more delayed as dense fog engulfed the region on Tuesday. Jammu Airport Director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said flight operations were yet to begin due to “poor visibility” caused by foggy conditions. “Four morning flights — three scheduled to operate on Srinagar-Jammu-Srinagar route […]
Srinagar: A gunfight broke out Tuesday evening between government forces and militants in Lawaypora area on the outskirts of Srinagar. “Encounter has started at Lawaypora area of Srinagar. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow,” tweeted Kashmir Zone Police. Preliminary details suggest that the firefight started after government forces launched […]
Fire service vehicles, reinforcements brought; second night of ‘thorough’ searches underway Shopian: A military operation launched at Kapran village, some 12 kilometers from district headquarters Shopian, entered its second night on Tuesday, with no trace of militants found so far. This is the 7th such operation in Kapran village in the past 22 days. Locals […]
Srinagar: Former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday that her party had “bottled the djinn called BJP” before entering into an alliance with it, but the Hurriyat leaders did not reciprocate to the advances made to them for resolving the Kashmir issue. “In English we say, ‘we had bottled the djinn’. On our […]
Srinagar: Four Covid-19 related deaths were reported in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, two of them from Kashmir division and two from Jammu According to officials, two of the deceased persons belonged to Srinagar district and two others to Doda and Reasi districts. A total of 1,879 Covid-19 patients have died in Jammu and Kashmir […]
JAMMU: Government Unani Medical College, Kashmir gets approval from Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India for grant of permission to start 1st batch of Bachelors in Unani Medicine & Surgery (BUMS) course from the current academic session of 2020-21 with an intake capacity of 60 seats. The Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India issued the […]
Aisha Shah will be the first Kashmiri Muslim to work in the White House Srinagar: The granddaughter of former Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Syed Ahmad Shah (also known as Sham ji) has been inducted in the ‘digital strategy’ team of US president-elect Joe Biden. The announcement was made by Biden and his […]
Srinagar: Maiden District Development Council (DDC) elections in the fag end of 2020 marked a resumption of political activity in Jammu and Kashmir after abrogation of special status and reorganisation of the erstwhile state last year. The year 2020 began amid uncertainty as most of the mainstream political leaders continued to be under various forms […]
Raja Syed Rather Srinagar: A CRPF trooper, who was injured in a grenade attack last week in Ganderbal district succumbed to his injuries at SKIMS Soura, officials said on Tuesday. CRPF spokesman Pankaj Singh said that ASI Netrapal Singh, who was injured in a grenade attack at Ganderbal on December 24, breathed his last at […]