Baramulla: A building of Tehsil office in Tangmarg area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district gutted partially in a fire incident on Monday morning. Eyewitnesses said that fire broke out on the top floor of a Tehsil office building in Tangmarg on Monday morning and the fire tenders were called who doused the flames, with the […]
HAJIN: A 55-year-old rice mill owner was crushed to death after he slipped into a conveyor belt fitted with the motor of the mill in Shahgund village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Monday. An official while speaking to Kashmir Reader that Abdul Majeed Dar met with an accident after he slipped into the conveyor […]
UNICEF officer urges students to focus on good stories Srinagar: Kashmir University’s Media Education and Research Centre (MERC) organised a webinar on Digital Storytelling to train its students with new tools and techniques of telling stories using digital media platforms. Idhries Ahmad, Communication Officer at UNICEF, was the key speaker at the webinar, which was […]
JAMMU: The NCC Naval Wing and Placement Cell of Government Degree College Banihal, today Organized a National Webinar on ‘Strategy for Managing Personal Finance including Mutual Funds and NPS during and After COVID-19 and Career opportunities in Army Services.” The online event was organised in collaboration with Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) with […]
BARAMULLA: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Baramulla, Dr G N Itoo today convened a meeting of concerned officers to take stock of the arrangements put in place for carrying out the much awaited COVID-19 vaccination drive. On the occasion, DC took a comprehensive review of various aspects pertaining to the drive wherein it was informed that […]
REASI: District Development Commissioner Reasi, Indu Khanwal Chib on Monday chaired a meeting of the District Level Task Force to review the preparedness for the Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization and expected COVID19 vaccination in the district. The DDC, while speaking at the meeting, said that the introduction of the Coronavirus vaccine will save the lives […]
LG orders for providing 4×4 rescue vehicles, ambulances in snow affected districts Jammu: Extending much needed relief to the people of snow-bound areas, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday declared ‘Heavy Snowfall’ as state specific Natural Calamity under SDRF norms. The decision was taken during a meeting on snow clearance efforts of administration with all […]
Srinagar: Nature continued to defy science in the valley of Kashmir where people again woke up to the sight of snowfall on Sunday, for the second consecutive day of the spell of “dry weather” forecast by the J&K Meteorological (MeT) department. After the heavy snowfall across Kashmir this week, the local meteorological office had predicted […]
Srinagar: Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway came to an unexpected halt and hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the road in bone-chilling cold on Sunday evening after the retaining wall of a bridge collapsed at Seiri area near Kella Morh in Ramban district, officials said. They said that there is no passageway for the traffic […]
Shopian: Two elderly persons could not reach hospital due to snow blocking the roads and died of heart attack in two separate villages in Shopian district. Ghulam Rasool Khan died on Saturday evening of a heart attack after carrying his ailing son on a stretcher to his home in Shadab-Kareva village. His son, Suhail Ahmad, […]