Jamia Masjid closed for second consecutive week

Amid restrictions imposed in Srinagar parts, the authorities on the second consecutive week barred people to offer the Friday congregational prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid here. Witnesses said all the four gates of the historic Masjid remained locked for the second consecutive Friday today. Locals informed that a huge contingent of police and paramilitary […]

Chest Disease Hospital finally gets a ‘prescription’ for its ills

The Health Department has finally taken a note of the non-functioning of the essential medical equipments at Govt Chest Diseases Hospital, Dalgate. The defunct equipments have been finally made functional, giving a much respite to the patients who earlier used to face severe hardships. Notably, ‘Kashmir Vision’ had carried a news item on August 30 […]

Acute water scarcity hits Southern village as PHE fails to repair pipeline 

Failure of Public Health Engineering (PHE) department to repair the ruptured pipeline in Southern district has caused acute water scarcity to Redwani Payeen village. The residents told ‘Kashmir Vision’ that they are facing acute water scarcity from past several months as the authorities have failed to repair the ruptured pipeline supplying water to the Redwani […]

‘Swachhata he seva week’ kick started in Ganderbal

    With a vision to promote cleanliness in all spheres of district, Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, Dr. Piyush Singla kick  started today a week long “Swachhata Hi Seva” in presence of Additional Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal Syed Shahnawaz Bhukari, Assistant Commissioner Development and all District/ Sectoral officers including a large number of people. Speaking on the […]

Hurriyat (M) condemns Jamia Masjid lockdown, Mirwaiz’s house detention

  Hurriyat Conference (M) Friday denounced the ‘undemocratic and anti Muslim decision’ of Government to once again lock down the Central Jamia Masjid Srinagar for the second consecutive Friday and caging of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at his residence barring him from offering the Friday prayers and delivering sermon at the Jamia Masjid. According to the […]

MP launches ‘Swachhata Hi Sewa’ drive

As part of the nation-wide cleanliness drive, the Member of Parliament, Nazir Ahmad Laway Friday launched the cleanliness drive – “Swachhata Hi Sewa” from Mini Secretariat Kulgam. He was accompanied by the Deputy Commissioner, Kulgam, Mr. Talat Parvez Rohella and other district officers. This cleanliness drive is a fortnight programme starting from 15th of September […]

Minister launches LAWDA’s de-weeding, solid waste collection drive

Minister of State for Housing & Urban Development, Asiea Naqash today launched Lakes and Waterways Development Authority’s (LAWDA) special drive for deweeding of macrophyte weeds and solid waste collection from Dal and Nigeen lakes as part of the Pan-India Abhiyan‘Swachhata hi Sewa’.  The theme of the campaign is to reinforce the concept of “sanitation as […]

Editorial : Strengthening GST

The GST implementation in the state is almost two months old now and to judge any new system within a period of just two months may be too premature. However, the results that have been pouring after the GST implementation should be worrisome for the government. Even the state’s finance minister has been candid enough […]

Trooper killed in LoC firing

A Border Security Force (BSF) man was killed when Pakistani troops opened ‘unprovoked’ fire along the International Border (IB) in Jammu district. Constable Bijender Bahadur was on duty at a forward point along the fence in Arnia sector along the IB when Pakistani Rangers resorted to mortar shelling and small arms fire at about 0020 […]