Month: January 2023

Minimum temperature recorded a drop in Jammu and Kashmir, even as the Meteorological Department predicted widespread moderate rains and snowfall from Tuesday evening. “Widespread moderate snow (rain in Jammu) and moderate to heavy snow over middle and higher reaches of J&K is very likely from the January 24 evening to January 25,” the MeT officials said. “On January 26 and 28, weather is expected to be partly to generally cloudy with light snow and rain at isolated places.” Srinagar recorded a low of minus 2.3°C against last night’s minus 3.4°C. Qazigund recorded a low of minus 0.6°C against 1.0°C on the previous night. Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 8.8°C against minus 4.7°C on the previous night. Kokernag recorded a low of minus 3.5°C against minus 2.7°C on the previous ni...

Despite constitution of divisional level Prescriptions Audit Committee (PAC), doctors in several hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir aren't prescribing generic medicines to patients available at the hospital. Health officials on condition of anonymity told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that doctors at various hospitals are not prescribing generic medicines to the patients so as to give benefit to private clinics and to give their percentage as well. They said directions given doctors to mention, unit/department name on the prescription is also thrown to the winds so that identity of doctors not prescribing generic medicines won't get disclosed. Meanwhile, attendants as well as patients talking to KNO said that the nexus between doctors and private clinics is still active and...

Ahead of R-Day function, security has been beefed up in Kashmir capital Srinagar while frisking of pedestrians and commuters has also been intensified. Today Police and Para-military troopers were seen frisking the pedestrians in city-centre Lal Chowk. Reports reaching the news agency Kashmir News Trust that joint forces have intensified the process of checking vehicles and frisking people in different parts of the city. Reports said that police have been keeping vigil over suspected persons while vehicles, mostly bikers are being stopped and checked. Artificial barricades have been created to restrict the speed of vehicles in various parts. Police sources said that security has been beefed up to ensure a smooth Republic Day parade in Srinagar stadium. They said that drones ...

The JK admin on Monday constituted a Committee to enquire into the matter relating to the appointment of faculty members in Jammu and Kashmir Institute of Management, Public Administration and Rural Development (JKIMPARD) in “violation of rules”. Headed by the Financial Commissioner Chairman (Additional Chief Secretary), Home Department, the members of the committee include the Director General, J&K Institute of Public Management, Administration and Rural Development, Secretary to the Government, General Administration Department, Secretary, Department of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and Director General (Codes), Finance Department, news agency GNS quoted an official order as saying. ‘The Committee shall also enquire into the reasons for not previously reporting to the ...

Authorities on Monday said that bodies of two persons were taken to their native villages in snow-bound Tanghdar areas in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district to enable their families perform their last rites. One of them, Mohammad Rafiq Baba, had passed away this Friday due to some illness and another, Naseer Ahmad Khan, died in a train accident in Uttar Pradesh but the exact date of the death was not immediately shared by the officials who were contacted by the GNS for confirmation. “District Administration Kupwara in collaboration with Civil Administration Karnah, JK Police Karnah, and Indian Army successfully took two dead bodies to Tangdar during intervening night of 22 January enabling their families to perform their last rites,” reads an official statement sent to GNS. “These 2 de...