Srinagar: The State’s Health department has been busy with the expansion of infrastructural base with full force, with much of the revenue, especially in case of Sub Centres, being spent on rent, as more than 60 per cent Sub Centres are functioning from rented buildings. As per the comprehensive 2016-17 document on Rural Healthcare in […]
Jammu: Business representatives from Jammu, Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir held a three-day meeting that concluded in Bangkok (Thailand) and signed an MoU to boost cross-border trade. Secretary General of Jammu and Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (J&K-JCCI) Muzaffar Majid Jan said the three-day meeting of representatives of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of […]
Srinagar: With increasing deaths caused due to H1N1 at SKIMS Soura, the premier healthcare institute seems to be caught in a tight spot with two more women succumbing to the infection and reportedly two being in critical condition. So far, as per records, more than 30 patients have died at SKIMS due to H1N1, […]
Kabul: An explosives-packed ambulance blew up in a crowded area of Kabul today, killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 others, officials said, in one of the biggest blasts to rock the war-torn city in recent years. The Taliban-claimed assault — the second carried out by the militant group in the Afghan capital in […]
United Nations: Days after UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told India and Pakistan to resolve all issues including Kashmir through a dialogue, Islamabad’s top envoy to the world body raised the Kashmir issue during a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East Maleeha Lodhi, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, during the […]
Jammu: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti condemned the car bomb attack in the Afghan capital, saying, “We all must unite to vanquish this nexus of terror.” At least 40 people were killed and 140 others injured when a Taliban suicide bomber, driving an explosive-laden ambulance, triggered a blast near the old interior ministry building in Kabul. […]
Srinagar: Condemning the ‘brutal’ killing of two youths Javid Ahmad Bhat and Suhail Javed Lone in Shopian by government forces, the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has called for a complete and state-wide shutdown today. Expressing grief over the killings, the leaders said, “Army, CRPF […]
Srinagar: Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah lashed out at Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday for not issuing a statement against the killing of three civilians in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Earlier, Mehbooba Mufti had condemned the suicide car bomb attack in Afghanistan. “I strongly condemn the suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan capital. […]
Srinagar: Restrictions will be imposed in parts of Srinagar city on Sunday in the wake of shutdown call issued by the resistance leadership against the killings of two civilians in army firing in Shopian. “Complete restrictions will be imposed within the territorial jurisdictions of Nowhatta, Rainawari, Khanyar, Safakadal and MR Gunj police stations and partial […]
Kupwara: A complete shutdown was being observed Saturday in the frontier Kupwara district to pay homage to 27 civilians killed on this day allegedly by Army for observing shutdown on January 26′ 1994. All the shops and business establishments remained closed and roads wore a deserted look in Kupwara, Trehgam, Kralpora, and other areas, witnesses […]