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January 16, 2016 No Responses

Experts express resentment over capturing of musk deer

Wildlife experts and animal rights activists in Kashmir have expressed concern and regret over capturing of a musk deer by locals in Lari area of Kangan in Ganderbal district. Wildlife experts said that these species of deer are extremely shy...

December 5, 2015 No Responses

Ganderbal hospitals lack heating arrangements, patients, staff suffer

Hospitals in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district are without any proper heating arrangements due to which patients and hospitals staff is facing immense inconveniences. People in Ganderbal town said patients admitted in the hospital shiver and are forced ...

November 24, 2015 No Responses

Strike at Z-morh tunnel, labour’s demand permanent jobs

Dozens of laborers working on Z-morh tunnel being constructed near Sonamarg on Srinagar-Leh highway have stopped the construction work on the tunnel demanding permanent jobs in Construction Company. They also expressed resentment over “disparity in wages”....

July 17, 2015 No Responses

Girl killed in Kashmir cloudburst

A 15-year-old girl was killed when cloudburst struck on the Srinagar-Leh road in Sonamarg area of Kashmir today. Two houses were also damaged and several vehicles washed away. “A cloudburst struck around 7.30 pm at Kullan and Gagangir villages in Sonama...

May 16, 2015 No Responses

Court awards 10 years jail to rapist in Ganderbal

District and Session Judge Ganderbal Friday awarded 10 years imprisonment and fine of Rs one lakh to a rape convict. According to KNS, District and Session Judge, Aijaz Ahmad Mir awarded 10 years jail to the convict Muzaffar Raina, 30,...

April 16, 2015 No Responses

Fear keeps students away from this school

Role plunges from 300 to 29 Every morning the children and female staff of Government Middle School Warpoh, Ganderbal, have to wait outside the para-military CRPF camp either to gather enough courage to enter their educational institute alone or to...

April 13, 2015 No Responses

Sonamarg out of bounds for tourists, locals

Tourists, traders rue road closure; no decision taken yet: Officials Srinagar-Sonamarg road continues to remain closed since December last year due to heavy snowfall. The 80-km-long Srinagar-Sonamarg highway is closed for last more than four months, and author...

January 29, 2015 No Responses

Traders protest army’s ‘illegal occupation’ in Sonmarg

Kashmir traders Wednesday staged a protest against the alleged encroachment of land in and adjoining areas of tourist resort Sonmarg by Indian army. Scores of traders from Beopar Mandal Kangan carrying banners and placards assembled outside Sub District Magist...

November 26, 2014 No Responses

Over 70% voter turnout in Phase-I J&K polls: Narula

Around 60% KP migrant electorate cast votes Sonawari records highest 80 pc voting; Ganderbal records lowest turnout with 52.97% Defying the separatists’ boycott call, terror threats and chilly weather conditions, over 70 percent electorate across 15 constit...

November 25, 2014 No Responses

Assembly elections begin today

Have made all arrangements for fair polls: Narula The assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are beginning Tuesday amid tight security arrangements and poll boycott call by separatist groups. 15 Assembly segments spanning seven districts will go to polls in.....