Weather to improve significantly on Sunday: Weatherman

40 flights cancelled; Jmu-Srinagar NHW closed, to remain shut on Sunday too

Srinagar: As the snowfall and rains continued overnight and during the day on Saturday, weatherman has predicted gradual decrease in the intensity of the precipitation by evening and significant improvement in weather by Sunday morning. The officials said while light to moderate snowfall was recorded in plains of Kashmir, moderate to heavy fall, with very […]

J&K Govt signs MoU with Century Financial for $100 million investment

DUBAI: The J&K government on Friday signed an MoU with UAE’s pioneering financial services company, Century Financial that will invest $100 million in the Union Territory. The MoU was signed in a special event presided by the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha. The investment will cover 3 hotels and one commercial cum residential complex in Jammu […]

Tourism Deptt pitches JK’s tourism potential during Dubai EXPO-2020

Srinagar: In the ongoing Dubai EXPO-2020, the Department of Tourism has pitched strongly for promoting the potential of Jammu & Kashmir as the unparallel and all season destination in the country. Making a case for the tourism potential of Jammu & Kashmir, Secretary, Tourism, Sarmad Hafeez during a presentation before the delegates of the Expo […]

10 PDP leaders booked for violating CAB

Talks volumes about J&K admin's brazen bias against my party: Mehbooba Mufti

Srinagar: An executive magistrate in Anantnag district has directed police to register an FIR against 10 PDP leaders for allegedly violating Covid Appropriate Behavioue (CAB) protocols at an event to mark party founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s death anniversary, officials said on Saturday. “Regarding the subject it is to intimate that following persons/organizers organizers of Peoples […]

Covid-19 cases keep on mounting in J&K

655 fresh cases, three deaths reported Saturday

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 655 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the virus tally to 3,43,965, while three fatalities due to the disease, 01 from Jammu and 02 from Kashmir Division, were reported from the Union Territory in the past 24 hours, officials said. Of the fresh cases, 392 were from the Jammu division […]

UK-based Kashmiri booked for anti-national activities

Srinagar: A UK-based man of Kashmiri-origin, Muzammil Ayyub Thakur, has been booked under the UAPA for allegedly carrying out anti-national activities on social media, police said on Saturday. A complaint was also lodged by an advocate here against Thakur for threatening him in public and on social media, a police spokesperson said. “On Thursday, Police […]

Div Com Kashmir visits Tertiary Health Care hospitals in Srinagar

Inspects Covid containment measures, stresses 100% Covid testing of patients, attendants

Srinagar: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang K Pole on Saturday took an extensive tour of Tertiary Health Care Hospitals in Srinagar and PM Cares Covid DRDO Hospital to inspect covid containment measures in view of Omicron spread in the country. Div Com visited SMHS Hospital, Lal Ded Maternity Hospital, Bone and Joint Hospital, Barzulla, and […]

Journalist arrested for ‘propagating against Govt’

Srinagar: A journalist was arrested by police for allegedly engaging in activities “prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and unity of India”, police here said on Saturday. In a statement issued today, a police spokesman said that Sajad Ahmad Dar son of Gh. Mohd Dar resident of Shahgund Hajin, ‘so called journalist’, operates a twitter account […]

Mother, daughter rescued after being hit by avalanche in Poonch

Jammu: A 37-year-old woman and her minor daughter were rescued by villagers from an avalanche in a remote village in Poonch district on Saturday, officials said. Nasreen and her 11-year-old daughter Zaida Kousar had gone to fetch water from a natural source in their Tarwanja village of Behramgalla in Surankote area when they came under […]