Who will save Kashmir’s Jewel, yes the deteriorating Dal Lake?
by: Qazi Wasif
SRINAGAR: On a cold winter day in December, Mohammad Hussain, a Dal dweller would usually show tourists around in his Shikara, traditional boat, but instead he is doing a hecticjob of plucking weed plants out from the Lake.…
Protests against PDD, PHE erupt in Bandipora villages
SRINAGAR: The inhabitants of Mangnipora, Keema and adjoining areas of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against the Power Development Department (PDD) and Public Health Engineering (PHE)…
NIA files charge sheet against twelve persons including Hafiz Saeed, Salahuddin
SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday filed a 12794-page charge sheet against twelve persons, including Jamat-d-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, for "conspiring to wage war"…
Family of murdered eight year old Asifa stage protest in Hiranagar
SRINAGAR: Protest erupted in Hiranagar Tehsil of Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday after an eight-year-old girl Asifa Bano, who had gone missing a week ago, was found dead under mysterious circumstances.
The family and…
Villagers up in arms against forces for occupying land in Shamsipora Anantnag
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of villagers from Shamsipora Anantnag are up in arms against the RR forces who occupied illegally land from said village.
According to the reports hundreds of villagers from Shamsipora Anantnag today assembled in the…
CM Mehbooba expresses anguish over gruesome” murder of Asifa, assures action
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday expressed her anguish over the "gruesome" murder of eight-year-old girl, belonging to nomadic Bakerwal community in Kathua district.
Mufti took to twitter to express her…
Lacks of doctors, facilities render patients to suffer at NTPHC Chewdara Beerwah
SRINAGAR: Nearly a dozen villages are suffering allegedly due to lack of doctors at Primary Health Centers (NTPHC) in Chewdara Beerwah area of central Kashmir Budgam.
Residents said that the two posts of doctors are lying vacant since…
Avalanche struck famous Gulmarg, foreign tourist killed, another missing
SRINAGAR: A foreign tourist was killed and another is missing on Thursday after an avalanche struck at Upper Wat area of Gulmarg- the famous health resort place in Kashmir Valley.
Official sources told news agency GNS that the incident…
PHC Kalaroos in mess, Only dental doctor available
Sadaf Khursheed
KUPWARA: The Primary Health Center (PHC) of Kalaroos Kupwara which facilitates the medical aid to more than 25 thousand masses of the adjoining areas is defunct for the lack of doctors from last one month.
Initially…
Footbridge constructed under MGNERAGA collapses before inauguration in Poonch
Inquiry ordered; 3 officers suspended, two others disengaged
MS Nazki
POOCH: Government on Wednesday suspended three officers and disengaged two others after a foot bridge collapsed at Loran area of this border district in Jammu.
The…