LIFELINE OF LADAKH
Union Territory of Ladakh has only one lifeline in the shape of Srinagar-Leh national highway as the Manali-Leh road often gets disrupted. Recently after four months of winter disruption, authorities decided to open this highway amid lockdown due to coronavirus threat. UT administration of Ladakh on Friday after taking feedback from the ground decided to […]
HOW FAR
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed nation and said that lockdown will continue till May 3, 2020. He did this announcement after lot of consultations with all the stakeholders in politics and bureaucracy. He asked administrative machinery to be very strict while implementing the lockdown from 14 up to April 20, 2020. He indicated that […]
DARBAR MOVE HALT
After about 150 years, there would be no Darbar Move from Jammu to Srinagar for the first time due to COVID-19 virus threat. Whatever the real motive behind this order of administration, it is a decision having far reaching consequences. Started in 1872 by then Maharaja Ranbir Singh, a Dogra king, who made Jammu and […]
GROWING CURVE
Despite all efforts by administration to arrest the growing trend of more positive cases in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the numbers are only piling up. It will take some more days for the curve to get flattened in Kashmir as the cases are multiplying on daily basis. The figures coming from the official […]
MEHBOOBA UNDER DETENTION
Former Chief Minister and PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti was shifted today to her Gupkar residence and the authorities declared it as a sub-jail as she has not been released so far. Mehbooba is under detention from the past 8 months and presently she is detained under PSA, a stringent law as she can kept in […]
BREAKING THE CYCLE
The fight against the growing positive cases of coronavirus in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has entered into a decisive phase. Despite all hardships and problems, common people in Kashmir valley are cooperating with authorities to enforce lockdown. Police and administration should also do the hand holding of people in distress rather than thrashing […]
ACUTE SHORTAGE
Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing a phase of acute shortage of essential items particularly in Kashmir valley due to closure of highway. Srinagar-Jammu highway is closed for more than a week now with authorities only claiming that it would be restored soon. Police and other wings of administration are busy in enforcing […]
Airlift essential items
With authorities of UT of Jammu and Kashmir busy in enforcing lockdown in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir, there is little focus on the facts like 800 trucks laden with essential items are stranded on highway for the past several days due to the closure of the road. In such circumstances Srinagar city and […]
Trying times
COVID-19 threat is looming large on entire Kashmir valley and more positive cases of infected persons are coming to the fore. These are trying times for all of us and we should collectively try to come out of -this huge challenge. COVID-19 is spreading in Srinagar city due to the negligence of some persons who […]
Grim Situation
Kashmir valley is witnessing a very grim situation due to the growing threat of corona virus and we have already loosed 1% to this deadly virus. 18 persons have been found positive and thousands of people are presently under surveillance due to the growing threat of COVID-19. According to the official figures available, 5763 travelers […]