Srinagar – Jammu highway closed due to snowfall
The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was closed since thursday due to snowfall in the Banihal area. The highway has been closed for all types of vehicular traffic....
Dearth of funds, road digging hits PDD’s underground cabling project
The Power Development Department (PDD) is unable to carry out the underground cabling of power lines in the state due to shortage of funds and...
MLA Rashid asks Hurriyat to unite for plebiscite
Independent legislator from Langate, Engineer Abdur Rashid, Wednesday urged Hurriyat leaders to unite to press for plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking in a seminar...
This mother ‘gave 4 sons to Kashmir cause’
It was not easy for Shahmali Begum (85), the mother of Maqbool Bhat, to become the ‘cradle of resistance’ as she had to sacrifice four...
Traffic violations go unchecked in Jammu
The observance of traffic weeks or seminars and events on traffic are hardly serving the purpose as people continue to violate traffic rules in the...
Rs 399 cr to be spent for restoration of Jhelum
Embankments along Jhelum which the swollen river breached in 2014 causing devastating floods, will be restored and other remedial measures taken up at a cost...
Curfew-like restrictions imposed in Srinagar to stem pro-freedom protests
The city authorities on Wednesday imposed curfew-like restrictions here, causing inconvenience to people. Policemen standing beside coils of concertina wire put across the road in...
Valley to witness rains, snowfall for next two days
Weather in Kashmir Wednesday remained dry but the Meteorological Department has predicted a spell of rains and snowfall beginning Wednesday night. “Snow and rains are...
Screening of film on Kashmir triggers row in IIT-Delhi
For the last six months, research scholars associated with the Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), watched...
Residents in city periphery rue lack of public transport
The important routes in the winter capital may have no issues regarding availability of transport where private Matadors are plying till late evening, but the...