Alasteng, Bandipora projects to reduce power curtailments
SRINAGAR: Two much needed power projects, Alasteng and Bandipora, whose delay resulted in prolonged power outages are going to be operational in the Valley this month. Chief engineer Jammu and Kashmir transmission limited Hashmet Qazi told Kashmir Reader that Alestang power grid will be operational this week. He said it will be followed by Bandipora […]
Jammu: The Pakistan army resorted to unprovoked firing and shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday, a defence spokesman said. The latest ceasefire violation comes a day after a 60-year-old man was killed and four people were injured in Pakistani shelling along the LoC in Tangdhar sector […]
New Delhi: The Government of India as approved a nearly Rs 6,000-crore multi-purpose project to provide uninterrupted water for irrigation to farmers in Jammu’s Kathua and to produce power, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday. It was decided at a high-level meeting that the work for the Ujh multi-purpose project will start immediately and […]
Banihal/Bhaderwah: Three persons were killed and four others injured while one went went missing in two separate road accidents in Ramban and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Tuesday. A tractor-trolley plunged into 200-feet gorge while unloading muck near Ramban town on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway late Monday night, resulting in the […]
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said the full economic potential of Jammu and Kashmir has not been realised due to Article 370 and the full rights of the people of the region enshrined in the Constitution were denied because of Article 35A. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said in Lok […]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Parliament on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution expressing “unflinching and unwavering support” to the Kashmiri people and demanding India to reverse its decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. The National Assembly or lower house passed the resolution on the eve of what Pakistan observes as the Kashmir Solidarity Day […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday released a former PDP legislator and a trade leader from detention after six months, officials said. With the release of the two leaders, the number of people now under detention at the MLA hostel is 15. The hostel has been temporarily converted into a subsidiary jail. Former […]
‘11 travellers screened test negative’
Srinagar: The government has decided to setup isolation wards in every district hospital and medical college of Jammu and Kashmir in view of the possible threat of coronavirus. According to official sources, the Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu has directed health department to set up isolation wards in every district hospital of Jammu and Kashmir […]
BARAMULLA: LPG crisis has hit north Kashmir’s Baramulla from past half a month, with locals saying that gas agencies are refusing to provide them supplies. Locals said that soon after the heavy snowfall, gas agencies stored the cylinders that led to crisis like situation.They said that as the government’s announcement that there is stock of […]
SRINAGAR: A fresh public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the J&K High Court against Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s upcoming film “Shikara: The Untold Story Of Kashmiri Pandits”. The Litigation was moved before court by demanding a stay on its release and deleting some of the scenes which portrays Kashmiri Muslims in bad shape. “Shikara” the […]