CRPF personnel injured in Sopore grenade attack
Srinagar: A paramilitary trooper of CRPF was injured after suspected militants hurled a grenade towards security forces near SBI Bank in main town in North Kashmir’s Sopore district. Confirming the incident a police officer told GNS that militants lobbed a grenade on security forces near SBI Bank. In this incident one CRPF man recieved splinter […]
South Africa omit key trio for Sri Lanka ODI series
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa will be without a number of key players for their three One-day Internationals in Sri Lanka next month, but expect their big guns to return for the Twenty20 series that follows as they build towards the World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. South Africa play three ODIs in Colombo from Sept […]
US advises its citizens to leave immediately
WASHINGTON: The United States urged its citizens on Thursday to leave Afghanistan immediately as a US intelligence report predicted that the Afghan capital Kabul could fall to the Taliban in 90 days. The security alert for Americans still in Afghanistan said that the US Embassy in Kabul could soon announce evacuation flights for them but […]
India Logs 40,120 New Covid-19 Cases, 585 Fatalities Reported
India recorded a single-day rise of 40,120 coronavirus infectionswhich took the tally of Covid cases to 3,21,17,826. The recovery rate increased to 97.46 per cent, the highest recorded so far, according to the Union Health Ministry’s 8AM data updated on Friday. According to the government’s data, the death toll, meanwhile has gone up to 4,30,254 […]
Eco-Tourism
There is a thrust of the Jammu and Kashmir government on Eco-Tourism and many steps have been taken in the recent past to work in this direction. Recently the wildlife department for the first time started a trek from the Brain area of Nishat in the forests and the trekking was completed through the forests […]
One militant killed, another flees in Kulgam gunfight: Police
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar Friday said that a foreign militant was killed in the Kulgam encounter while the second one managed to flee. He said the slain militant had taken shelter in a nearby building after attacking the BSF convoy at Meerpora, Kulgam. “Intermittent firing remained on throughout the night and […]
COVID-19: J&K records two deaths, 176 positive cases
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Union territory on Thursday witnessed two deaths and 176 fresh positive cases, taking the number of total active cases in the UT to 1,307. With two more death, the death toll in the UT has reached to 4,395 and 176 fresh positive cases reported on Thursday has pushed the tally […]
Two civilians injured in Kulgam gunfight: Police
Two civilians were injured and as many militants of Lashker-e-Toiba are believed to be trapped Mirbazar in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials said. Official sources told a local news agency, Global New Service (GNS) that two civilians, Sahil Yaqoob Bhat (25) son of Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat of Dantar Anantnag and Shahid Farooq Sheikh (22) son […]
TAD collaborates with Japan’s SHIN PROGRAM to launch activity based learning in 100 tribal areas of J&K
Dr Shahid meets SHIN representative regarding this partnership programme SRINAGAR, AUGUST 12: The Tribal Affairs Department conducted a preliminary coordination interaction with Japan based SHIN Education for activity based learning to be introduced in 100 tribal area schools as a pilot project. The idea behind this innovative attempt is to empower the students with logical […]
COVID awareness rally held at Vilgam
DIC Kupwara coordinates KUPWARA, AUGUST 12: On the directions of Deputy Commissioner Kupwara, an awareness rally regarding implementation of COVID-19 Appropriate Behavior (CAB), was taken off from BMO office Vilgam. The rally was coordinated by the District Information Centre (DIC). Kupwara, and was attended by Health workers, ASHAs and AnganWadi Workers of ICDS department. The awareness rally went […]
