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Ailing AIP leader Bilal Sultan bailed out

Srinagar Ailing Awami Itehad Party (AIP) leader Bilal Sultan, 47, was bailed out on Wednesday after over seven months detention. According to family sources, officials informed...

Covid-19 threat: 70 quarantine beds earmarked in Ganderbal

Srinagar The Deputy Commissioner, Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal today visited the Isolation wards earmarked for quarantine facilities for suspected patients which are established in District Hospital...

KU’s MERC Commemorates International Women’s Day

Srinagar The Media Education Research Centre (MERC), the University of Kashmir here on Tuesday organized a series of events to commemorate International Women’s Day. The programme...

Power Shutdown In Kashmir Parts

Srinagar According to power controller, Kashmir province, to carry out the replacement of ACSR 0.05 damaged conductors by ACSR 0.1, power will remain off in...

Robust, effective mechanism put in place to tackle Coronavirus threat: Div Com

Srinagar The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan on Wednesday directed concerned officers to setup 24x7 screening camps at TRC, Nehru park, Mughal Gardens and...

Coronavirus: Classwork suspended in all educational institutions across JK

Srinagar The government has decided to suspend teaching and classwork in all schools, colleges and universities (Public & Private) and closure of Anganwari Centres till...
A rare photograph showing Sheikh M Abdullah in the Royal Palace at Srinagar in late 1947.

Why Erasing Sheikh’s Name Is Not A Promising Start?

by Dr Haseeb A Drabu The great Czech writer, Milan Kundera starts his novel, Book of Laugher and Forgetting, with a historical anecdote: In 1948,...

396 persons including former CMs detained in J&K under PSA: MHA

Srinagar The Centre on Wednesday said in Parliament that 396 persons have been detained in Kashmir under the Public Safety Act (PSA) out of the...

Paramilitary Man’s Swabs Taking for Test

Srinagar Doctors at the SMHS hospital took swabs from a paramilitary man for Coronavirus testing after he complained of cough and fever, hospital officials said. “We...

Scooty rider crushed to death in north Kashmir

Srinagar A speedy mini bus Wednesday crushed an 18-year-old boy to death in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that an 18-year-old identified...

HC rejects plea to ban pellet guns

Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation by Kashmir lawyers Body, seeking a total ban on pellet guns as...

Grenade detected on roadside in Srinagar, destroyed

Srinagar Government forces on Wednesday morning detected a live hand grenade at Barbershah area of Srinagar city. Official sources told news agency  GNS that the grenade...

Army man dies of cardiac arrest in Srinagar

Srinagar An army man died due to cardiac arrest in Rangreth area of Srinagar district on Wednesday. A police official told news agency GNS that the...

Congress seeks posting of SRO 202 lecturers in J&K

Srinagar The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) has sought posting of SRO 202 lectures, presently posted in UT of Ladakh in Jammu and...

Coronavirus: Primary schools, cinemas, anganwari centres closed in five districts of Jammu

Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered the closure of all primary schools, cinemas and anganwari centres in five districts of Jammu region till...