SUMBAL: Police organised a youth interaction programme at Nahidikha Sonawari area of district Bandipora on Saturday. The interaction programme was attended by ASP Bandipora Ashiq Tak, SDPO Sumbal Saqib Ghani and SHO Sumbal Muneeb ul Islam. Youths from Nahidikha village participated in the interaction and raised various issues. Officers assured the participants that their genuine […]
Srinagar: The J&K High Court has called for an updated report from officials on compliance with court directives issued in 2015 for restoration and protection of Pahalgam resort. The court while hearing the matter on Friday sought the report from Commissioner Secretary, Tourism Department; Commissioner Secretary, Revenue Department; Chief Town Planner, Kashmir; Chief Executive Officer, […]
PAMPORE: Three shops were damaged in Pampore on Thursday night and property worth lakhs is believed to be damaged. According to reports, short circuit is believed to have caused the fire. The complex where fire erupted houses these shops is owned by a local Mosque and rented to different shopkeepers on monthly rent basis. Mushtaq […]
Srinagar: Former J&K chief minister Farooq Abdullah was released on Friday after more than seven months in detention. The government also revoked the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) under which he had been held at his residence here. Immediately after his release, Abdullah demanded that his son Omar Abdullah, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, and other […]
Baramulla: A youth who had joined militant ranks only a week ago was killed in a brief gunfight on Friday afternoon in Rafiabad area of Baramulla district. Official sources said that after receiving specific information, government forces including army’s 32 RR, police and paramilitary CRPF launched a search operation in Shitloo village of Rafiabad on […]
Srinagar: To combat the novel coronavirus, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has started a massive sanitation drive across the city. On Friday, SMC officials were seen gearing up men and machinery for carrying out the special sanitation drive in the city, especially at hospitals, roads, crowded places, the press club, and government departments. An earlier order […]
Met office forecasts sunny days for a week
SRINAGAR: Landslides and shooting stones at several places along the Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Friday kept traffic movement suspended for the third consecutive day. An official from Traffic Control Unit Srinagar informed that landslides and shooting stones took place at Digdol, Panthal, Higni and Magerkote, due to which traffic movement remained suspended also for the […]
Jammu: One person died and nine others sustained injuries when a vehicle skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Friday, officials said. A tempo traveller carrying passengers from Patnitop to Jammu skidded off the Patnitop-Kud road at Kassal Morh and rolled down into a deep […]
Srinagar: Government hospitals across Kashmir have been asked to restrict visitors due to the threat of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Director of Health Services, Kashmir, Dr Samir Matoo told Kashmir Reader that he had issued strict directions to all Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) and Medical Superintendents of district hospitals and health centers to restrict attendants […]
JAMMU: The J&K Government on Friday informed that 159 persons have completed their 28-day surveillance period and, so far, only two cases have been tested positive in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the daily media bulletin on novel coronavirus (COVID-19), 1,743 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases have been put under surveillance while […]