Grenade lobbed on police post in Kulgam, no injury reported
Kulgam: Suspected militants on Monday evening lobbed a grenade towards Police Post Frisal in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. However, no loss of life or injury was reported during the incident, officials said. The grenade was lobbed t at the police post at around 6:10 pm as per officials. They said the grenade missed the target […]
J-K records 390 fresh coronavirus cases; tally 1,03,009
Thirty-eight travelers were among 390 new novel coronavirus cases reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 103009 in Jammu and Kashmir. Among the cases, 150 were reported from Jammu Division and 240 from Kashmir Valley, unidentified officials told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS) on Monday. Giving the district […]
Changing weather on Monday afternoon in Srinagar
By: Mudasir Ahmad Khan VOV Srinagar After a dry spell of a few months, Kashmir valley witnessed snowfall in the higher reaches and rains in the plains in the past few days. Gulmarg witnessed the first snowfall of the season bringing hope and cheers among the locals that they may see some tourist footfall in […]
Butchers switch over to chickens from mutton to evade arrest
By: Tariq Shah VOV Srinagar Most of the butchers in Srinagar have switched over to selling big chickens to their clients instead of mutton after the government recently arrests 37 meat sellers for selling mutton at the rates not prescribed by the government. Recently JK Administration fixed the rates for selling of the mutton but […]
Eviction of nomads in Pahalgam is part of New Delhi policy on Kashmir says Mehbooba
After the eviction of government-claimed “illegal and unauthorized occupants” at Pahalgam, the former chief minister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief, Mehbooba Mufti on Monday visited the higher reaches of the region and met the evicted families. Ms. Mufti said that the government is pushing these nomads to the wall especially during the winter period […]
Covid 19 Survivors Face Increased Risk Of Psychiatric Disorders
SRINAGAR: Researchers at the University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry and NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, report the first large-scale evidence that Covid-19 survivors are at an increased risk of psychiatric disorders. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, used the TriNetX electronic health records of 69 million people in the US including over […]
Step Motherly Treatment With Regular Employees: DAK
SRINAGAR: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday welcomed the decision of the Government to give 5% monthly incentives to NHM Employees during Covid pandemic but is equally aghast and annoyed over the step-motherly treatment shown by Government of Jammu and Kashmir towards the regular employees of health department including Medical Officers, Dental Surgeons and Consultants […]
RJD to boycott Nitish Kumar’s oath-taking ceremony
Bihar’s main opposition party RJD on Monday said it will boycott the oath-taking ceremony of Nitish Kumar as chief minister, claiming the mandate in the elections was “against the NDA” which has been changed by a “fraud”. Kumar is scheduled to take oath as chief minister for the seventh time in Raj Bhavan this evening. […]
Ten civilians stuck due to heavy snowfall at Sinthan pass rescued
Srinagar: Ten civilians were rescued by the joint teams of police and army at Sinthan Pass to Chowgam stretch who were stuck due to heavy snowfall in the area during the intervening night of 15 and 16 November, a local news gathering agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) quoting unnamed officials reported. KNO reported that a […]
Hundreds held as Belarusians chant dead protester’s last words
MOSCOW: Belarusian police detained hundreds of people who took to the streets in mass demonstrations on Sunday chanting “I’m going out”, the last known written words of an anti-government protester who died last week. A witness in the capital Minsk said police had used tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the crowds […]
