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Chattabal sealed after several positive cases reported from the area

SRINAGAR: All entries and exits leading into and out of Chattabal area of Srinagar were Monday sealed in the wake of its declaration as...

No further action required in matter of stranded Vaishno Devi pilgrims: HC

Srinagar: No further action is required in the matter of pilgrims to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine who had been stranded in Jammu due...

LG to donate 30 percent salary for one year

JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu has announced to donate 30 percent of his salary for the next one year towards the fight against...

Fever clinics being set up in Kashmir: Div Com

SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, visited round the clock Control Rooms at NHM, old Secretariat to inspect preparedness and overall arrangements...

Kashmiri innovators trying to rise to Covid-19 challenge hampered by lockdown, slow internet

SRINAGAR: In Srinagar's Eidgah neighbourhood, 22-year-old innovator Waseem Nadaf has been tirelessly working on developing frugal, efficient, and quick solutions to the crisis of...

3 families from south Kashmir reach Kupwara to claim militants’ bodies

Kupwara: Three families from south Kashmir, two from Shopian and one from Kulgam, reached district police lines Kupwara in north Kashmir to claim the...

In Kashmir, Covid-19 brings ‘order’ in public distribution system

Srinagar: Every month, when rice was to be distributed at the ration depot in their locality, dozens of the registered householders would jostle in...

J&K government won’t pay contractual teachers for lockdown period 

Srinagar: Amid the ongoing Corona lockdown, the J&K Higher Education department has said it will not pay salaries to college contractual teachers for the...

J&K’s coronavirus count crosses 100 mark

Srinagar: Coronavirus positive cases crossed the 100 mark in Jammu & Kashmir after 14 more persons tested positive in the last 24 hours, raising...

Start preparing people for situation after lockdown: HC to govt

Srinagar: The J&K High Court has directed the government to prepare people for the possibility of a partial or a full removal of the...

5 militants, 3 soldiers killed in encounter in Kupwara forest

Kupwara: Five militants and three army soldiers were killed in a gunfight in Keran sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district...

‘Designated’ departmental stores in Srinagar not answering calls for home delivery

Srinagar: The Srinagar district administration had on Friday asked people to place home-delivery orders from designated departmental stores, but the stores are either not...

How a Shopian couple tested positive 18 days after returning from Umrah

RAASHID HASSAN: Shopian: A curious development has taken place in Shopian district where two persons, a husband and wife, tested positive on Saturday evening...

Migrant labourers herded together in Sopore college, locked up, and given no food

SRINAGAR: The government has not provided food to hundreds of migrant labourers who have been picked up from their rented accommodations and lodged at...

Corona effect: Kashmiris ditch local bakers, choose packed biscuits, raw flour

Srinagar: In the haste of stocking up in every way possible amid the lockdown, people are preferring to buy raw flour and biscuits in...

Sudden spurt in Covid-19 cases in J&K

Srinagar: Nineteen more persons tested positive for novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, taking the total number of cases detected in the...

10 villages declared as red zones in Uri, Tangmarg

Baramulla: The district administration Baramulla has declared 10 villages as red zones and several others as buffer zones in Tehsil Uri and Tehsil Tangmarg. District...

Gag order on coronavirus another attempt to throttle information: KPC

Srinagar: The Kashmir Press Club (KPC) on Saturday issued a statement decrying "the attempts by authorities to throttle information on coronavirus". Highlighting a recent gag...

No need to panic as situation under control: Div Com

SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, said that the COVID-19 cases who have foreign travel history and are currently in administrative quarantine...

All govt jobs to be reserved for domiciles of J&K, law amended

Srinagar : Three days after redefining the domicile for Jammu and Kashmir, the government of India issued amendments to rules and reserved all government...

Amendment to domicile law questioned by all political parties, except Bukhari’s

SRINAGAR: Except the newly formed Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party of Altaf Bukhari, all major political parties in Kashmir have questioned the Government of...

HC calls for specific law on violence against healthcare professionals

Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Saturday called for a legislative framework to address issues of violence against health care professionals and clinical establishments. The...

Urgently consider releasing PSA detenues in view of Covid-19 risk: HC

Srinagar: The J&K High Court has directed a High Powered Committee to urgently examine the matter of releasing people held under the Public Safety...

4 Hizb militants killed in Kulgam gunfight

Anantnag: Four local Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed Saturday in a gunfight with government forces in south Kashmir’s Kulgam. The slain militants have been identified...

Government allows transportation of high-density plants in Valley to avoid losses

Shopian: The government has decided to allow transportation of plant and root stock meant for high-density plantation of apples to avoid economic losses to...

Young women entrepreneurs in Kashmir see their dreams being shattered by unending lockdown

Srinagar: Young women entrepreneurs in Kashmir who had recently started businesses that depended on the internet for marketing or for online orders are now...

COVID-19: 5 more test positive in J&K

Srinagar: Five more persons tested positive for novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, four of them from Kashmir. Including the fresh cases,...

Above 1200 tests conducted so far: Kansal

JAMMU: Principal Secretary Planning, Information and Government Spokesperson, Rohit Kansal said that with the addition of five new cases, the number of positive COVID...

Make medicine available to cancer patients: Advisor Khan to officials

JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, who is overall in-charge of Coronavirus control efforts in Kashmir, on Friday convened a meeting here...

DC Srinagar designates 23 departmental stores for home delivery of groceries

SRINAGAR: In view of restrictions on business operations and public movement imposed as part of measures to contain spread of COVID-19 in the district...

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