Month: February 2023

The district administration of Srinagar launched a massive anti-encroachment campaign across the district on Saturday. As a result, 409 kanal of State land worth more than Rs 240.58 crore were reclaimed from "powerful land grabbers." According to officials, the anti-encroachment operation was started in all 7 tehsils of the district, including the tehsils of Chanapora, Pantha Chowk, Khanyar, Eidgah, and north and south Srinagar. They claimed that with the assistance of the Police and other relevant departments, the special anti-encroachment squads organized by the Srinagar district administration and led by respective tehsildars carried out large-scale anti-encroachment drives. According to officials, a group of Revenue, Police, and officials led by Tehsildar North Srinagar Kaiser Me...

A 16-year-old girl from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district was awarded the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) 2023 award. Hanaya Nisar, a resident of Kokernag area of Anantnag, has been given this award as she had represented India and won the Gold Medal in the 3rd World SQAY Martial Arts Championship held in Chingju, South Korea in October 2018. Hanaya, who is an 11th class student said that she feels very much honoured to receive this prestigious award and everyone around her including Mir Salma Rashid, whole Sqay Federation of India, family and relatives are very much happy. Hanaya has so far won dozens of gold medals in Martial arts at International, National and state level. She has recently won gold medal in 23rd Sqay National Championship held in Jammu besides ...

Weather in Jammu Kashmir remained dry mostly during the last 24 hours, IANS reported. The MeT office said on Sunday that Jammu will have dry weather and Kashmir valley will have rain/snow at isolated places during the next 24 hours. "Weather would be dry in Jammu division with rain/snow at isolated places in the Valley during next 24 hours", an official of the MeT department said. Srinagar had 1.8, Pahalgam minus 5.4 and Gulmarg minus 6.4 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature today. In Ladakh region, Drass had minus 21.5, Kargil minus 15.4 and Leh minus 10.8 as the minimum temperature. Jammu had 8.3, Katra 9.1, Batote 3.8, Banihal 2.2 and Bhaderwah also had 2.2 as the minimum temperature. IANS

On world cancer day, the Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday called for population-based cancer screening in Kashmir valley. “With cancer reaching epidemic proportions in the valley, screening people for cancer is the need of the hour,” said DAK President Dr. Nisar ul Hassan. Dr. Hassan said cancer screening detects disease early and reduces the risk of dying from the disease. When cancer is detected at an early stage, the chances of survival are dramatically higher than when detected at a later stage when the tumor has spread and the disease is more advanced. “In a study survival rate for women diagnosed with cervical cancer at an advanced stage was just 15% compared to 93% when cancer was detected at an early stage,” he said. “Results from decades of research cle...