Admin issues avalanche warning in Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir Disaster Management Authority (DMA) has issued high, medium, and low-level avalanche warnings for higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir. As per a communiqué, a high danger level (Orange alert) avalanche warning has been issued for higher reaches of Poonch, Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar, Anantnag, Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora districts. A medium level (yellow […]
No air traffic
The flights to Srinagar airport got disrupted due to the heavy snowfall and the process continues because the snowfall is going on. The suspension of operations from Srinagar airport has added to the problems of people living here as the surface link especially the Srinagar-Jammu highway has remained closed. The flight operations to and from […]
Sopore shuts down to mark 28th anniversary of massacre
Srinagar : A complete shutdown is being observed in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district Wednesday to mark the 28th anniversary of the victims of 1993 massacre. According to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that on 6 January in 1993, BSF men fired indiscriminately in Sopore market and set ablaze shops and houses, charring […]
Kashmir Chamber VP Dr Abdul Majid Mir Is No More
SRINAGAR: Abdul Majid Mir, the incumbent Vice President of Kashmir Chamber f Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has died in a road accident. He had gone to fetch some grocery when a scooter hit him in a Delhi locality. He died almost instantly. Mir along with his family was in Delhi. Sources privy to the developments said […]
Snow falling from roof buries woman to death in north Kashmir
Srinagar : A massive block of snow fell from a roof and buried a 70-year-old woman just outside her residence in Trehgam area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday. Reports reaching said that the woman, Rahmi Begam wife of Abdul Subhan Malik of Shah Mohalla Trehgam, had just ventured outside her house as a […]
CRPF officer dies after coming under snow in Kashmir capital
Srinagar : A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sub Inspector was killed on Wednesday after a shed collapsed at former legislator’s house in Hazratbal area of Srinagar. Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a CRPF Sub Inspector identified as H C Murmu of 115 battalion was injured after a shed collapsed due to […]
22 families evacuated from avalanche prone village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam
Srinagar: Authorities on Wednesday evacuated 22 families in avalanche-prone area of Kulgam and accommodated them in a school in the south Kashmir district. Officials said that the 22 evacuated families of Marisle Nallah Kund were accommodated in the Government Middle School in view of avalanche warning in the area. The step has been a precautionary […]
3 houses damaged by heavy snow in north Kashmir’s Uri; no loss of life, injury reported
Uri: Three residential houses were damaged due to heavy snowfall in Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday. Reports said that the residential houses that were damaged belong to Abdul Latief Barwal of Nambla Uri, Syeda Raza Fatima and Syed Gulzar Hussain of Dani Seydan Uri. An official said that there was no […]
Former Ministers; former Legislators; public deputations call on Lt Governor
Congratulate UT Administration for DDC elections, highlight people’s issues JAMMU, JANUARY 5: Former Ministers; former Legislators and public deputations called on Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha at the Raj Bhavan here today and congratulated the UT Administration for the successful conduct of DDC elections. A public delegation led by Chairman, Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party […]
NC, CPI (M) Leaders call on Lt Governor; express gratitude for successful conduct of DDC elections
JAMMU, JANUARY 5: A delegation of J&K National Conference leaders today called on Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha here at the Raj Bhavan. The delegation led by Provincial President of NC, Devender Singh Rana, comprising of former Ministers – Surjit Singh Slathia; Ajay Kumar Sadhotra and Mushtaq Bukhari; former Legislators- Javed Rana and TS Wazir; expressed […]