Month: February 2022

Jammu and Kashmir Administration on Sunday said that more than 400 Health Infrastructure Projects/works worth Rs. 7177 Crores are being initiated. “Two new AIIMS with the project Cost of Rs 4000 Cr (Rs. 2000 Cr each) one each at Jammu Division & Kashmir Division, seven new Government Medical Colleges being established with total Outlay of Rs. 1595 Cr,” J&K Administration said. Administration said that ten new Nursing Colleges being set up with an approximate cost of Rs. 60 Crore. “Two State Cancer Institutes coming up worth Rs. 240 Cr, one each at Jammu and Kashmir Division,” Admin said. Administration said that Jammu and Kashmir has also received Rs 881 crore for 140 health projects under PMDP out of which 75 projects have been completed and 26 projects will soon be co...

The Editors Guild of India has condemned the arrest of Fahad Shah, the editor of the Kashmir Walla, on Friday. As per a press statement issued by the Editors Guild of India, Shah had been questioned four days earlier for his reporting on a deadly police raid in Pulwama in late January that left four people dead. He has been summoned and detained multiple times for his writing over the past few years. This arrest is part of a larger trend in Kashmir of security forces calling journalists for questioning and often detaining them, because of their critical reporting of the establishment. In a separate incident, journalist Gowhar Geelani has also been summoned by the executive magistrate of Shopian district to appear in court on February 7 for "acting in a manner prejudicial to the publi...

Ulfat Bashir Social activist Zahid Mircha appealed the higher authorities to construct a drug de-addiction centre at Sopore town to combat substance and drug abuse in the town. Social activist, Zahid Mircha said that the Sopore town in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district lacks a drug de-addiction centre, adding that establishing such a centre in the town can help combat drug abuse. "It aims to create awareness and educate people about the ill-effects of alcoholism and substance abuse and provide a range of community-based services for identification, motivation, counselling and de-addiction, after care and rehabilitation," said Zahid Mircha. Meanwhile, the Additional Deputy Commissioner assured him that the issue will be taken up with higher authorities and soon a drug de-addict...

Jammu and Kahsmir recorded 1148 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday— the lowest in the past 26 days. Nine persons also succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, the officials told GNS. 511 of the fresh cases, they said, were reported from Jammu Division and 640 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally to 446648. J&K had reported 1148 cases on January 11. They said five deaths were reported from Jammu Division and for from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall toll to 4715—2307 in Jammu and 2408 in Kashmir. Regarding the district wise details of the fresh cases, they said, Srinagar reported 197 cases, Baramulla 54, Budgam 116, Pulwama 38, Kupwara 62, Anantnag 63, Bandipora 22, Ganderbal 28, Kulgam 48, Shopian 12, Jammu 168, Udhampur 63, Rajouri 11, Doda 117, Kathua 32, Samba 25, ...

These Recommendations are inimical to the larger interests of the people of Jammu and Kashmir CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami on Sunday said that the draft proposal of the Delimitation Commission has recommended a strange geographical layout for redrawing the boundaries of several  parliamentary and assembly poll constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir. The draft proposal shared by the Commission with its associate members—as media reports suggest—seems even incongruous with the Commission's earlier argument of taking into account the topography and difficult terrain while re-mapping the poll constituencies. The Commission has proposed an arbitrary overhaul in the existing territorial constituencies with no regard for even the terrain, let alone the population that tends to be a...

The local residents of Gund Abrahim locality of Singhpora area of Pattan in Baramulla district on Sunday held a protest and blocked Baramulla-Srinagar National highway after a 12-year-old boy was mauled to death by stray dogs. Reports reaching Kashmir News Service (KNS) said that the boy identified as Azan Ahmed son of Manzoor Ahmed Ganie of Gund Abrahim locality of Pattan was mauled to death by stray dogs after he went missing today afternoon.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/orlistat.html They said that his body was later retrieved from a local stream after he went missing. Reports said that the local residents held a protest demonstration and blocked Baramulla-Srinagar highway against what they called as lackadaisical attitude of the concerned authorities for fail...

The Civil society of the Karnah area in north Kashmir's Kupwara district has expressed strong resentment to the delimitation proposal In a statement, the Civil society Karnah Dr.Aijaz Lone General secretary of the organization said that the people of karnah strongly oppose the proposal of the delimitation commission, which has added some part of Karalpora tehsil to Karnah constituency. The chairman calling the move of inclusion of Kralpora in the Karnah assembly segment as unjust said that it was "injustice" to the people of karnah. "We have a unique topography. Karnah valley is an administrative tehsil of frontier district Kupwara located 78Kms away from the district Headquarters Kupwara, compromising of 32 panchayat halqas with a population of more than 80 thousand." He said tha...