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Temperatures Plunge as Gulmarg records season’s coldest night at minus 12°C

Temperatures Plunge as Gulmarg records season’s coldest night at minus 12°C

Srinagar: The minimum temperatures recorded a plunge in Kashmir Valley with Gulmarg recording season’s coldest night at minus 12.0°C on Monday. A meteorological department official said that Srinagar recorded a low of minus 1.9°C against last night’s minus 0.6°C. Today’s minimum temperature was 0.2°C above normal for the summer capital, he said. Qazigund, he said, […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Women in distress

Women in distress

The Social Welfare Department of the J & K government is trying to provide a dignified life to the people who need their hand holding. Recently in a review meeting Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir has asked the officers of the Social Welfare Department that they should help all those women who need the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Search operation turns into encounter in Magam locality

Search operation turns into encounter in Magam locality

  Budgam, Jan 15: search operation turned into an encounter in Redbugh area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Sunday. Earlier, Joint forces launched a cordon and search operation (CASO) in many localities of Magam town in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Reports said that joint teams of Army, police and CRPF cordoned off SK Pora, […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Fireman dies after falling from building in Jammu

Fireman dies after falling from building in Jammu

A fireman died after falling from a four-storey building in Prem Nagar locality in Jammu during an operation, an official said on Saturday. Fire tenders were rushed to the commercial-cum-residential building to douse the blaze that broke out late Friday night, they said. During the fire-fighting operation, selection grade fireman Satish Raina, posted at Shaheedi […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Union Minister e-distributes appliances among PwDs

Union Minister e-distributes appliances among PwDs

DODA, JANUARY 14: Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Dr. Virendra Kumar, today e-inaugurated camp for distribution of free of cost aid and appliances among the Divyangjans under ADIP scheme. Dhananter Singh Kotwal, Chairman, District Development Council, Doda, was also present on the occasion. Union Minister, while addressing on the occasion, said that under […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Srinagar-Jammu highway opens for traffic, LMVs to ply from both sides

Srinagar-Jammu highway opens for traffic, LMVs to ply from both sides

The Srinagar-Jammu highway was thrown open for vehicular movement on Saturday morning while the officials said that the traffic on both sides has been cleared. Officials told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the highway was thrown open for traffic this morning after the road was cleared. The men and machinery were […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Flights resume at Srinagar airport after snowfall

Flights resume at Srinagar airport after snowfall

After 66 flight cancellations on Friday due to poor visibility due to snowfall and rains, authorities at Srinagar airport on Saturday said that flights to and fro the airport have resumed operations after an improvement in visibility and clearance on the runway. An official told a local news agency, Kashmir Dot Com (KDC), that “Weather […]

 Crescent Kashmir

GI Tagging

GI Tagging

GI Tagging is proving to be a game changer for many products in Kashmir. Saffron of Kashmir after getting GI tagging has a lot of demand in the global markets. Similarly GI Tagging of hand knotted carpets, papier mache and several other products resulted in huge success for local producers. GI Tagging of several other […]

 Crescent Kashmir

MeT predicts dry weather in J-K

MeT predicts dry weather in J-K

While Srinagar city received the season’s first snowfall during the last 24 hours, higher reaches were lashed by heavy snowfall during this period. The MeT office said on Saturday that dry and generally cloudy weather is expected in J-K and Ladakh. Slippery roads, chilly winds and evading clear sky affected normal life in the Valley. […]

 Crescent Kashmir

NIA to probe Rajouri attack, militancy to be wiped out from Jammu: Amit Shah

NIA to probe Rajouri attack, militancy to be wiped out from Jammu: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Friday said that in a high level security review meeting chaired by him in Jammu all the security agencies agreed to cast a 360 degree net to wipe out militancy from Jammu region and that the Rajouri killing case has been handed over to NIA for a thorough probe. Addressing […]