Restrictions in Kashmir capital ; rail service suspended

Srinagar: Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir imposed restrictions in many areas here on Monday to prevent separatist-called protests. “Restrictions under section 144 CrPc have been imposed in Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari, M.R.Gunj and Safa Kadal. While partial restrictions have also been imposed in Maisuma and Kralkhud,” the police said. Leaders of separatist conglomerate, Joint Resistance Leadership […]

Yasin Malik arrested in Srinagar

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik was arrested on Monday to prevent him from leading protests in Srinagar, said a spokesman. He said that a police party arrived at his Maisuma residence in Srinagar today morning and detained him. “Malik was detained and shifted to Central Jail Srinagar,” said the spokesman. […]

DAK  holds free mega Urology camp at Budgam

BUDGAM: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK), Sunday, held a free mega urology camp at Budgam as part of its Social Outreach Programme. The said  camp was organised by Dr Muzaffer Ali, Senior Surgeon who is also  District President DAK for Budgam and Dr Arshid Rashid. Large number of patients thronged in to camp for free screening […]

Kashmiri Saffron losing its fragrance

SRINAGAR:This time of the season when the uplands of Pampore on the outskirts of Srinagar, presents a breath-taking sight of fields full of purple coloured saffron flowers but Government’s failure to make irrigation facilities functional have rendered the fields deserted. With no traces of flower and harsh winter approaching fast, the saffron growers are expecting […]

For focussed attention, finance ministry gets top PSU management for a marathon Monday meeting

SRINAGAR: In a bid to help state government’s 27 fully owned corporations in Jammu & Kashmir to rediscover their growth trajectories, finance ministry is holding a marathon meeting with all the Public Sector Undertaking and various other institutions on Monday. The meeting will be participated by the top management of all these entities excluding their administrative […]

Government gets a platoon of contractor to Dargah for implementing small Rs 42 Cr project, Wakf tense

SRINAGAR: The government has done a mockery of a major pilgrim tourism project which is being implemented around Dargah Hazratbal, Kashmir’s most revered shrine. The Rs 42 crore project has been fragmented into a series of small projects and their execution has been given to diverse players with the J&K Wakf Board literally lacking any say. […]

Interlocutor’s day out was an introduction to anger, hate and alienation

SRINAGAR: Point-man Daneshwar Sharma got a firsthand crash course in grounding realties as a group of youth including former militants, stone pelters, a few charge-sheeters and lot many victims of violence interacted with him. The interactions were in-camera and in absence of any government functionary at Pulwama. “It is a fact that I was part […]

250 non migrant Pandits to get state government jobs

SRINAGAR: In a bid to incentivise the Pandits who stayed back and did not migrate, the government has decided to recruit 250 Pandit youth this year. The process for the identification of the posts has already started, highly informed sources said. “Under the Prime Minister Development Programme (PMDP), there was a small section under which […]

LPG goes costly, out of poor man’s reach

Srinagar: The Centre’s decision to pay subsidy on LPG directly to the consumers may have  drastically checked the illegal connections and helped in eliminating the menace of corruption indulged allegedly by the oil companies in the country but in Kashmir it has broken the back of the poor consumers in view of frequent increase in the […]

State of disaster management: One fire tender for 90 villages in north Kashmir

Baramulla: On February 24 this year, at around 2 AM, a devastating fire broke out in Uri town of north Kashmir, destroying more than 50 shops and godowns in one go.          The fire, which started from a double-storey building, engulfed rest of the nearby shops and godowns in a jiffy. The fire could not […]