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Mughal road to be thrown open for ferrying cherry next week

Shopian: Shopian administration is set to throw open Mughal road for allowing transportation of cherry to Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu. An official from...

17 pregnant women among 105 test positive in Kashmir

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 105 new coronavirus cases on Sunday taking the total number of Covid-19 patients in J&K to 2,446, officials said. They...

Ongoing lockdown guidelines to continue in J&K till June 8

JAMMU: The government has decided to continue with the guidelines and instructions in operation in Jammu and Kashmir for lockdown measures till June 8. The...

Officials self-quarantine in J&K after bureaucract tests positive

Srinagar: A senior IAS officer tested positive for novel Coronavirus on Saturday night in Jammu and Kashmir prompting many senior officials to go for...

Thousands attend prayers in Masjid-e-Nabawi after 72 days

Madinah: Thousands of worshippers thronged to the Masjid-e-Nabawi (Prophet’s Mosque) in Madinah to perform Fajr Prayer on Sunday, after 72 days of closure due...

Two SSG personnel reported positive

Srinagar: Two Special Security Group (SSG) commandos have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Kashmir Valley, officials said on Sunday. They said samples of eight...

Three more areas declared Red Zones in Baramulla

Baramulla: Amid the growing number of Covid-19 cases in district Baramulla, the areas of Gantamulla Payeen and Gantamula in Tehsil Narvaw and Khawajabagh area...

Mishandling of sample collection in Baramulla, DM orders probe

Baramulla: The district administration Baramulla has ordered an inquiry into the alleged mishandling of sample collection for Covid-19 tests in Baramulla district. An order passed...

Militants escape CASO in Anantnag after exchange of gunfire

Anantnag: An unknown number of militants managed to give government forces a slip after engaging them in a brief gunfight in wee hours of...

Officials wait for ‘action plan’ while vast mulberry nursery goes to waste in Shopian

Shopian: One of Kashmir’s biggest mulberry nurseries, at Losedenow village in Shopian district, has been such a victim of official apathy that with every...

KU plans to abandon entrance examination for admitting students this year

Srinagar: Amid the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdown, Kashmir University has proposed to abandon entrance examination and instead select students on the basis of...

JU to promote students on internal assessment, marks in preceding semesters

Srinagar: Amid the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, University of Jammu has decided to promote its undergraduate students on the basis of internal assessment...

Rains further dampen cherry farmers’ hope

MeT predicts more rains, advises farmers to suspend spraying orchards Srinagar: The ongoing spell of rains has multiplied worries among cherry farmers as wet spell...

KU mulls to admit students on merit not entrance test

Srinagar: Amid the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdown, Kashmir University has proposed to abandon entrance examination and instead select students on the basis of...

J&K Covid tally crosses 2,300 as 177 test positive

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 177 new coronavirus cases on Saturday taking the total number of Covid-19 patients in J&K to 2,341, officials said. Among...

‘Unlock 1’: Religious places, restaurants, malls to reopen from June 8

Srinagar: The ministry of home (MHA) on Saturday decided to further ease restrictions outside containment zones but extended the countrywide lockdown in containment zones...

Police station in Kathua declared ‘out of bounds’ as three cops test positive

Jammu: A police station in Kathua district of Jammu was declared ‘out of bounds’ on Saturday after three policemen posted there tested positive for...

Deserted Tulmulla, no Kheer Bhawani mela this year

Srinagar: In a low-key affair, only the priests offered prayers at the Ragnya Devi temple in Ganderbal district on Saturday after the annual Kheer...

Modi lists Article 370 abrogation among key achievements of 2nd term

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday listed abrogation of Article 370, settlement of the Ram Temple issue, criminalisation of Triple Talaq and...

Army seeks to purchase 129 kanals in Pattan

Srinagar: After the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status with the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution last August, the Army has...

Talks at military, diplomatic levels on to resolve Ladakh standoff: Rajnath Singh

New Delhi: As Indian and Chinese troops remain engaged in a tense border standoff, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asserted that the government...

Core group meets to strategise security in Kashmir

Srinagar: General Officer Commanding, Chinar Corps, Lt Gen BS Raju and Director General of Police Dilbag Singh co-chaired a meeting of the Core Group...

2 militants killed in Kulgam gunfight

Anantnag: Two militants, both locals, were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with government forces here in Kulgam district of south Kashmir. The identity of...

LAWDA’s demolition squad needs police protection back, more staff

Srinagar: Due to the limited strength of the demolition squad in the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA), it is not able to keep...

J&K braces for locust storm that ‘may come in Aug or Sep’

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Department is bracing up for a possible locus attack that may come invading from mainland India in August...

Almost 70 thousand dog bite cases treated at SMHS in past decade and half

Srinagar: The stray dog menace is so common in Kashmir that perhaps it would not come as a surprise that 69,026 cases of people...

Shopian man dies of Covid-19, death toll reaches 28

94 travellers among 128 test positive in J&K Srinagar: A 70-year-old man from Shopian became victim of Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the overall death tally...

Operations in social sector in Srinagar to be allowed from June 1

SRINAGAR: The Srinagar administration is looking to permit more sectors to operate after the end of the current phase of the lockdown enforced in...

Edu institutes to remain closed till June 15

JAMMU: The government has ordered that all the educational and training Institutes in Jammu and Kashmir will remain closed till June 15. The educational institutions...

GoI likely to allow states more say after lockdown 4.0

NEW DELHI: The government of India is likely to retain a limited role and allow states and union territories to take decisions on whether...

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