Srinagar: Work on the 6.5-km Z-Morh tunnel, part of a strategic project for ensuring round-the-year connectivity between Kashmir valley and Ladakh region, is being undertaken on a war footing and it will be completed by June 2021, an official spokesman said here Monday. The spokesman said the information about the status of works on the […]
Srinagar: Just a half-a-kilometre from the office of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), a six-storey commercial complex is being built “in open violation of rules, against a court’s stay order” at Amira Kadal in city centre Lal Chowk, a complaint sent to the SMC Commissioner as well as to the Srinagar Deputy Commissioner says. “It is […]
NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided to reimburse to-and-fro airfares of civil services aspirants appearing for the personality test in Delhi as train services are “not fully functional” due to COVID-19 curbs, according to an official statement issued on Monday. The Commission will also help the candidates with their lodging and […]
Anantnag: Six years after he announced that he has voluntarily retired from the Indian Forest Services (IFS) and joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), it turns out that former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s cousin and former PDP Coordinator for South Kashmir, Sajad Mufti, had never left his job in the IFS. The truth has come to […]
Eight more deaths take Covid toll to 244 Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases in a day, with 701 new patients announced on Sunday, including 80 travellers. Of the new cases, 601 belong to Kashmir, including 16 pregnant women and nine healthcare workers, while Jammu reported 100 cases. The total […]
Number of deaths up 6 times, infection rate 3 times in past month-and-a-half
Number of deaths up 6 times, infection rate 3 times in past month-and-a-half Anantnag: From being a little shy of the 1k mark of total Covid-19 cases detected, the four districts in south Kashmir have taken only a month and a half to report more than 4,000 cases. Three districts have crossed the 1k mark […]
Srinagar: Most of the tourism players in Kashmir are not enthused over the Jammu and Kashmir government’s move to reopen the Union Territory for tourists amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the ground situation is far from normal for any such activity to take place. They said in these extraordinary times, the survival of people is […]
BHUBANESWAR: A study conducted jointly by researchers at IIT-Bhubaneswar and the AIIMS here has shown that the spread of Covid-19 may pick up pace during peak monsoon and winter with fall in the mercury. The rainfall, decrease in temperatures and cooling of the atmosphere coupled with progression towards winter may environmentally favour the spread of […]
Srinagar: Amid an upsurge in Covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir, about 25,000 non-local brick kiln labourers are going to arrive in the valley from various states to resume their work. Labour Commissioner Kashmir Abdul Rashid War, the officer who is monitoring the movement of labourers, told Kashmir Reader that by the end of next […]
Srinagar: Patient care was badly hit on Sunday after resident doctors at SMHS Hospital suspended emergency duties, in protest against “frequent attacks” on them by attendants of patients. On Saturday, a few attendants had allegedly thrashed two on-duty doctors and had also broken hospital property. The attendants were furious at the absence of adequate staff […]