Rotary Club Rajouri hands over masks, sanitizers to District Administration
RAJOURI, APRIL 11: In a fight against corona virus, the Rotary Club Rajouri have joined hands with District Administration and provided Masks, N95, Triple layer masks, Sanitizers, Examination gloves, Shoe cover and Cap disposables. The Rotary Club Rajouri handed over the material to Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Nazir Sheikh for further distribution among the health workers […]
Security forces seize LMG, material used for making IEDs after encounter in J-K’s Kulgam
Security forces on Saturday seized a light machine gun and material used for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) after an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said. A cordon and search operation was launched by the security forces in Nandimarg in the Damhal Hanjipora area of the south Kashmir district during […]
Amid lockdown, narco-smugglers in J-K using ambulances, doctors’ prescription for free movement
As all routes connecting J&K with the rest of the country have been sealed due to ongoing 21-day lockdown, the drug mafia is using ambulances and fake prescription slips of doctors to travel on the highways in guise of patients to avoid checking. Arrest of three narco smugglers, travelling in an ambulance three days back, […]
Forest department using old polythene envelopes to make nursery in Kangan
Ganderbal: Forest Department is setting up a nursery in Zirpora Kullan area of Central Kashmirs Ganderbal district in which small trees are being planted in the nursery but the irony is the fresh nursery is being covered with old polythene and sub standard material. Reliable sources said Kashmir News Service (KNS), that the nursery is […]
COVID-19: 17 more test positive in J-K, tally rises to 224
Srinagar: Seventeen more people have been tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir; among them five are from Jammu division, while twelve are from Kashmir. The tally of the Union Territory has risen to 224. The government’s spokesperson, Rohit Kansal, confirmed that seveteen more cases have been detected. “5 are from Jammu division […]
Baramulla battles Covid, lack of health infra
On Wednesday, Kashmir saw the highest surge so far in the Covid-19 cases. At least six samples taken from Government Medical College (GMC), Baramulla, tested positive. Of the six persons tested positive, five were Srinagar residents and had returned from Nigeria. They were under quarantine at Gulmarg in Baramulla. After the first positive case was […]
J&K govt re-opens Darbar Move offices, personnel to work on ‘as is where is’ basis
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday ordered the formal opening of the annual Darbar Move offices in summer capital Srinagar on May 4 but employees shall work on “as is where is” basis. The practice of ‘Darbar Move’ under which the government functions in Jammu during the six months of winter and in Srinagar […]
Kulgam encounter: Search begins as militants believed to have fled
Pika LMG gun, IED material recovered from encounter spot’ Kulgam, Apr 11 (KNO): After brief exchange of fire, no contact has been established with the militants in Nandimarg area of Damhal Hanjipora in Kulgam district and it is believed that militants have managed to give a slip to forces, leaving behind a Pika LMG […]
Army man injured in Pakistani shelling along LoC in J-K
Srinagar : An army man was injured after Pakistani army violated ceasefire along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Reports reaching said that the soldier namely Sepoy Rajesh Reddy of 12 Madras sustained splinter injury in the shelling near LoC in Kerni and Mendhar sectors last night. Reddy was immediately shifted to […]
Civil secretariat to remain functional in both capitals, to re-open in Sgr on May 4
Kashmir based staff to work from Srinagar; Jammu-based staff from Jammu Srinagar, April 10 (KNO): In an unprecedented move, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday ordered that civil secretariat will remain functional in both the capitals of Union Territory from May 4. As per wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), an order issued by […]
