MEHBOOBA CLAIMS WAHEED PARRA BEING TORTURED IN DETENTION

February 4, 2021

Former Jammuu & Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday claimed that her party’s youth leader Waheed Parra was being tortured and kept under sub human conditions in J&K police detention. In a series of tweets on Wednesday Mehbooba claimed that the CID wing of J&K police was compelling Parra to...

HEAVY SHELLING FROM PAK SIDE IN POONCH DISTRICT, NO CASUALTIES SO FAR

February 3, 2021

After a brief lull in the cross-border shelling, the Pakistani Army opened heavy fire and also shelled many forward posts on Tuesday, police and reports from the forward villages said. Reports said that villagers from Mankote sector left their houses as the heavy shelling was going on into the nearby...

Alert sounded as bird flu cases reported from Jammu and Srinagar

February 2, 2021

Authorities on Monday said in Srinagar that the samples of recently dead crows sent for the tests have shown that they died because of bird flu. Earlier officials said that bird flu was detected in Udhampur and Poonch areas of Jammu region. According to the senior officials of Animal Husbandry...

AT MINUS 8.8, SRINAGAR RECORDS COLDEST NIGHT AFTER 30 YEARS

February 1, 2021

Frozen water supplies trigger requests for drinking water tankers. Srinagar city registered the coldest night after three decades as minus 8.8-degree Celsius temperature was recorded here by MET officials. Amid this severe cold wave, more taps are becoming dry as the water pipes have frozen. Growing shortage of drinking water...

As mercury falls below freezing point, Kashmiris with chest problems have nowhere to go

January 30, 2021

Hundreds of old people, including a large number of women, are facing a new problem as the Chest Disease Hospital of Srinagar, situated at Dalgate, is a Covid-designated hospital and they have nowhere to go. With mercury falling below the freezing point, it is an alarming situation for all those...

CLEAR SKIES AND SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES PERSIST IN KASHMIR

January 29, 2021

Sub-zero temperatures are persisting with a cold wave in the entire Kashmir Valley even as the weatherman has predicted dry spells and clear skies for a few more days. The harsh period of winter consisting of forty days known locally as Chillai Kalan will end on Saturday as the people...

Waheed Parra detention is an example of how politicians are persecuted: Mehbooba Mufti

January 28, 2021

Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that continued detention of many of her party leaders, especially youth wing president Waheed Parra, was “emblematic of the situation of Kashmiri politicians who are being persecuted by New Delhi for not toeing its line”. Waheed...

Republic Day celebrations held in J&K amid tight security

January 27, 2021

Authorities in Srinagar virtually sealed roads and the main business centre of Lal Chowk on Tuesday as the Advisor to Lt Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, unfurled the Tricolour at the S.K. Stadium in Sonwar. In Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha while addressing the...

SECURITY ENHANCED IN J&K AHEAD OF REPUBLIC DAY FUNCTION

January 26, 2021

SRINAGAR: Police and security forces increased their presence in Jammu & Kashmir on Monday as a precautionary measure ahead of the Republic Day function. Air surveillance too was conducted in a number of places in the Valley ahead of the big day. Earlier IGP Kashmir range Vijay Kumar told the...

Highway to remain closed for another 5 days, Kashmir cut off

January 12, 2021

According to the traffic authorities Srinagar-Jammu highway will remain closed at least for another five days as they had to shut it again due to the collapse of retaining wall of an important bridge in Ramban sector of this highway. Earlier authorities cleared the highway from snow and debris of...