Khanpora protests against PDD for power cuts, blocks highway
Baramulla: Residents of Khanpora area of Baramulla on Monday took to streets and staged strong protest demonstration against frequent power cuts causing huge inconvenience to people in the chilling cold days. Witness said that large number of people including women and children of Khanpora Baramulla hit the streets on Monday morning and blocked the Srinagar […]
SDH Tangmarg draws peoples wrath, condemnation for ‘bad management’, lack of facilities
Tangmarg: Sub District Hospital, Tangmarg, presents grim picture of ailing health sector in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district with people alleging mismanagement, absence of doctors and technical staff having become a norm here. “It is the height of mismanagement when doctors and permanent paramedics exchange their night duties with BUMS colleagues and health volunteers who are […]
Former Physical Education Director Manjit Bir Singh passed away
Sad demise condoled widely
Baramulla: Former Director Physical Education Government College Baramulla and Chairman Sikh Civil Society North Kashmir, Manjit Bir Singh, of Rawar Baramulla, passed away after prolonged illness at SKIMS Soura Srinagar on Sunday morning. The demise of the ‘people friendly’ teacher and social worker shocked and saddened his students, colleagues, friends and people from a cross […]
DDC polls: Advocate Rabia of Sheeri files nomination papers for Narvaw
Baramulla: A young advocate and social worker Rabia Khursheed of Sheeri filed her nomination papers from Narvaw Constituency in Baramulla for the upcoming District Development Council (DDC) polls. Contesting as an independent candidate, advocate Rabia claims that she us fighting elections only for the development of her constituency which he alleged has been neglected badly. Talking […]
CRPF trooper shoot self to death in Wadoora Sopore
Baramulla: : A paramilitary trooper of Central Rreserve Police Force (CRPF) committed sucide in Wadoora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday morning. Sources said a CRPF head constable of 92 CRPF battalion posted at Wadoora Sopore shot himself dead with his service rifle. A police officer informed sucide and said police has egistered […]
Unscheduled power cuts, ‘inflated bills’ trigger protest in Sheeri Baramulla
Baramulla: People from different areas, metered and non-metered, of Sheeri Narvaw Baramulla district on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against Power Development Department Baramulla over unscheduled power cuts and “inflated bills”. The protesters said: “As if irking power supply was not enough, PDD has issued bills at the rate of Rs 720 and Rs 750 […]
4 residential houses destroyed, dozens damaged in cross-LoC shelling in Uri
Baramulla: Four residential houses were completely destroyed and dozens of others suffered severe damages in Balkote and Kamalkote frontier villages of Uri after Indo-Pak army exchanged gunfire and mortar shells along Line of Control (LoC) yesterday. Residents of the affected frontier villages said that four residential houses were razed and dozens others suffered extensive damages […]
Senior journalist Bashir Ahmad Sheikh ‘Alsafa’ left for heavenly abode
BWJA and NKJA express condolence and sympathies
Baramulla: North Kashmir Journalist Association and Baramulla Working Journalist Association (BWJA) on Saturday expressed deep shock and grief on the sad demise of senior journalist and founder member of BWJA Bashir Ahmad Sheikh aka (Bashir Alsafa) –who worked with Alsafa newspaper for long time. People friendly and humble, Bashir Ahmad Sheikh left for heavenly abode […]
Guns roar along LoC killing, injuring more than 20
6 civilians, 4 forces personnel killed; 4 more personnel, 8 civilians injured in fire from Pak side
A man, badly injured in cross LoC shelling in Uri sector is brought to a hospital in north Kasahmir while as a residential house, hit by a shell from Pakistan side, goes up in flames. PHOTOS/ Reyaz Rashid Baramulla/Srinagar: Four security forces personnel were […]
