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BGSBU extends online application last date for various programmes till Sept 15

BGSBU extends online application last date for various programmes till Sept 15

Srinagar: Administration at the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) has extended the last date for the online form submission for various postgraduate, undergraduate and diploma courses till September 15 in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. An official notification issued in this regard asked the aspirants for various Postgraduate / Undergraduate / B.Tech. / […]

 Crescent Kashmir

LG MEETS KCCI

LG MEETS KCCI

Reacting to recent media reports, quoting Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) that government was responsible for devastating economy in Kashmir and questioned the wisdom of administration especially in Srinagar keeping a lockdown of Covid-19 for five long months, new LG Manoj Sinha responded positively and met the delegation of KCCI assuring them of […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Police stops PDP protest, detains several leaders

Police stops PDP protest, detains several leaders

Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday stopped peaceful protest of Peoples Democratic Party against “detention of political prisoners, harassment of youth and media gag in the region.” The police also detained several leaders of the PDP, claimed the political party. Taking to their Twitter handle, the party said, “Police stops peaceful protest […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Adverse weather forces closure of Bandipora-Gurez Road for traffic

Adverse weather forces closure of Bandipora-Gurez Road for traffic

Bandipora: The 84-km Bandipora-Gurez road was closed for all sorts of traffic movement on Thursday owing to adverse weather conditions of the road at several spots. An official said that due to the heavy rainfall the Bandipora-Gurez and Dawar-Tulail has become slippery and to avoid any untoward incident, all sorts of vehicular movement on the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Naming it helicopter was Sakshi Dhoni’s idea: Dwayne Bravo opens up on his MS Dhoni song

Naming it helicopter was Sakshi Dhoni’s idea: Dwayne Bravo opens up on his MS Dhoni song

West Indies and Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Dwayne Bravo revealed why his song dedicated to MS Dhoni was called ‘Helicopter 7’. Bravo said it was Dhoni’s wife Sakshi’s idea, who was instrumental in putting the song together. Bravo, who on Wednesday became the first cricketer to take 500 T20 wickets, had released the song on MS Dhoni on the eve […]

 Crescent Kashmir

24-year-old stabbed to death by cousin in Pulwama village

24-year-old stabbed to death by cousin in Pulwama village

PAMPORE: A 24-year-old youth was stabbed to death by his cousin with a knife in Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday evening. Police identified the deceased as Adil Ahmad Dar ,24, son of Mohammad Akbar Dar, resident of Chandhara village of Pampore. SHO Pampore Manzoor Ahmad told Kashmir Reader that Dar was […]

 Crescent Kashmir

2 brothers held with ammunition in Srinagar: Police

2 brothers held with ammunition in Srinagar: Police

Srinagar: Police on Thursday arrested two brothers from Barthana area of Qamarwari Srinagar and recovered a pistol magazine along with 12 rounds of Ak47. A poice officier told that a cordon-and -search-operation was launched in the area during which house of one Tariq Ahmad Hajam who is a land broker by profession was raided. During […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Must hold JEE, NEET or will lose a year: Education Secy Amit Khare

Must hold JEE, NEET or will lose a year: Education Secy Amit Khare

JEE Main, NEET 2020: With the Centre under fire for pushing to conduct JEE (Main) and NEET next month, Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare told The Indian Express Wednesday that postponing these entrance tests till after Diwali would wash out an entire semester and affect fresh admissions over the next few years. “The exams were first to be […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Fresh cross-border shelling along LoC in Poonch

Fresh cross-border shelling along LoC in Poonch

Jammu: Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire on Wednesday by firing and shelling on forward posts and villages in three sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, a defence spokesperson said. The Indian Army gave a befitting reply and the cross-border shelling between the two sides was going on when the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Screen all TB patients for Covid and Covid patients for TB, says health ministry

Screen all TB patients for Covid and Covid patients for TB, says health ministry

New Delhi: With lockdown and consequent impediments in health service delivery severely affecting diagnosis and reporting of tuberculosis (TB), the health ministry Wednesday issued a guidance note to screen all diagnosed TB patients for Covid-19, and all coronavirus-positive patients for TB. The two diseases often show very similar symptoms and many states have already started doing TB screening for […]