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Hoarding begins, prices shoot up of face masks in Baramulla

Baramulla: Just days after cases of coronavirus being reported from across the country, the prices of face masks have shot up or the masks...

Coronavirus: Four tested negative at SKIMS isolation facility

Srinagar: The four individuals who were admitted to the isolation facility of Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura due to symptoms of coronavirus...

Meet entrepreneurs who were crushed by the lockdown

SRINAGAR: The gradual lifting of restrictions on public movement and access to information in Kashmir has begun to reveal what the extended lockdown has...

2 PDD engineers dismissed for fake certificates

Jammu: Two junior engineers of Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Department have been dismissed on charges of securing their jobs on the basis of...

No passport for corrupt babus: Govt

NEW DELHI: Government employees under suspension or granted sanction of prosecution over corruption charges will not be able to get a passport, according to...

Dangerous vacuum in Kashmir, all gains of past decades reversed: Lone

Srinagar: National Conference leader and Member of Parliament Muhammad Akbar Lone said that what the government is doing in Kashmir is “not compatible with...

Dr Wani appointed KU’s Director south campus

Srinagar: Kashmir University on Friday appointed Dr Ajaz Ahmad Wani as the varsity’s Director south campus. An associate professor in Department of Botany, Dr Wani...

Rains trigger landslides on Srinagar-Jammu

Srinagar: Rains lashed Kashmir on Thursday bringing down mercury and shutting down Srinagar-Jammu highway. The vehicular traffic along the mountainous highway was suspended after rains...

Several feared dead as cab falls into Chenab

Srinagar: Several people are feared to have died after the vehicle they were travelling rolled down a gorge on Srinagar-Jammu highway on Thursday evening. Deputy...

Health ministry issues fresh advisory for schools

Srinagar: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued a fresh Coronavirus advisory to schools and other educational institutions following the increase in...

5 persons admitted to SKIMS isolation ward

Srinagar: Five persons with a recent history of travelling to Coronavirus-affected countries have been admitted to SKIMS Hospital Soura after they showed symptoms of...

Private hospitals asked to set up isolation wards

SRINAGAR: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan on Thursday chaired a meeting to review preventive measures for Coronavirus (COVID-19) threat which are put in...

Broadband internet restored in Valley after 7 months

Srinagar: Broadband internet services were restored in Kashmir on Thursday, a day after the Jammu and Kashmir government lifted a ban on social media...

Pleas challenging CAA to be heard after Sabarimala case: SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said it will hear pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act after arguments in the...

CAA, NPR could render Indian Muslims stateless: USCIRF members

WASHINGTON: Members of a Congress created federal body that monitors violation of religious freedom abroad on Wednesday expressed concern over India’s amended citizenship laws,...

Khamenei asks India to ‘confront extremist Hindus’

Tehran: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday asked the Indian government to confront what he called “extremist Hindus and their parties”, saying...

If police fails to enforce law, democracy fails: Doval

Gurgaon: NSA Ajit Doval on Thursday told young police officers heading district force to be “credible and fair” and warned them that if they...

200 students stuffed into decrepit school building in Budgam

Srinagar: The School Education Department has put lives of more than 200 students and of their teachers at risk by cramming them into a...

RSF releases report on ‘intimidation of journalists’ in Kashmir

Srinagar: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday published a “summary of recent cases of police harassment of media personnel and violation of the confidentiality...

CBI books NC leader’s son

New Delhi: The CBI has booked Hilal Rather, the son of National Conference leader and former finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather, in Rs 177-crore...

Civilian, cop killed in Sopore attack

BARAMULLA: A policeman and a civilian were killed and another cop injured when militants fired upon them in north Kashmir’s Warpora area of Sopore...

Gunfight erupts in Budgam

SRINAGAR: An encounter broke out on Wednesday between militants and government forces in Budgam, police said. The forces launched a cordon and search operation in...

Ban on social media lifted after 7 months

SRINAGAR: The government on Wednesday lifted the unprecedented seven-month-long ban on social media but continued with the ban on high-speed mobile internet in Jammu...

Rains lash Kashmir, more expected over next 3 days

SRINAGAR: Rains lashed plains as well as upper reaches in Kashmir on Wednesday leading to dip in mercury. The Srinagar-Jammu highway, which was closed...

Long wait over, Civil Engineering now at KU’s Zakura campus

SRINAGAR: After a wait of five years, the administration at Kashmir University will finally introduce Civil Engineering branch in the B Tech programme at...

Officers nominated for control efforts

JAMMU: The government on Wednesday appointed several officers to ramp up efforts for prevention and control of coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the...

Spring a season of danger in Kashmir as pesticides fly about

SHOPIAN: Come spring and farmers in Kashmir begin the spraying of pesticides, fungicides, and insecticides, besides mixing the soil with chemical fertilisers, in expectation...

Mines explode due to forest fire along the LoC in Poonch

JAMMU: Some mines exploded due to a forest fire along the LoC in Jammu Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said. The fire broke out in...

Kashmir varsity not letting its students access internet facility

Srinagar: Even after the government’s cap on accessible websites in Kashmir, students at the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) are being denied internet by...

UN rights chief challenges CAA in Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the citizenship amendment law, in...

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