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A few students of Government Gandhi Memorial College on Friday recited Hanuman Chalisa in protest against the use of loudspeakers by a local mosque in Jammu, officials said. However, police later stopped them from reciting Hanuman Chalisa and detained half-a-dozen students, though they were later let free. The students alleged that they were studying in classrooms, and there was the use of loudspeakers by a local mosque which created "noise pollution" and triggered the student who later staged protests stating that there was a "disturbance" to their studies at the GGM College. The students also alleged that the failure of authorities to stop the usage of Loudspeakers which forced them (students) to chanting of 'Hanuman Chalisa'. The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) on Tuesday ...

Rescuers have retrieved the body of another worker near Khoni Nallah area of Ramban after part of a tunnel collapsed while search continues for others who are trapped, officials said Saturday. "Second body retrieved from debris site at Khooni Nallah. Identity will be ascertained. Body being shifted to District Hospital", Deputy Commissioner, Ramban, Mussarat Islam said in a tweet. On Friday (May 20) evening, landslide, prompted the authorities to suspend the rescue operation. It could not be resumed until this morning due to shooting of stones from the hillock, heavy rains and strong winds, officials said. With the improvement in the weather condition, the rescue operation resumed with the first light of the day with authorities pressing three earth movers and rock-breakers to rea...

Weatherman on Saturday said that a brief spell of rain and thunderstorm “may” occur at scattered places of Jammu and Kashmir mainly towards late afternoon and evening even as temperature recorded a drop. “Currently weather is generally cloudy at most places of Kashmir, hilly areas of Jammu and fair to partly cloudy in plains of Jammu,” an official of the local meteorological department here said. Heat wave, he said, abated from J&K, although temporarily. “A brief spell of rain/thunderstorm may occur at scattered places of Jammu and Kashmir mainly towards late afternoon/evening,” he said, adding, “Widespread rain/thunderstorm accompanied by gusty winds is most likely in Kashmir on May 22nd and on 23rd in Jammu region.” From May 25th till ending May, he said, mainly “dry and hot we...

Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires here to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche to him conveying Islamabad’s strong condemnation of the framing of “fabricated charges” against Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik. The Pakistan Foreign Office, in a late-night statement on Wednesday, said that Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Malik is currently imprisoned in Delhi's Tihar jail. “The Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s grave concern that in a bid to suppress the voice of the indigenous Kashmiri leadership, the Indian government has resorted to implicating them in fictitious and motivated cases,” it said. The Indian side was also conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over Malik’s incarceration in Tihar Jail since 2019 under “inhuman conditions”, it said. ...

Addresses interaction meet of progressive farmers, experts at ICAR-CITH Rangreth Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo Wednesday reaffirmed the government’s commitment with a single focus objective to increase farmers’ income manifold through better technological interventions in farming. The ACS was speaking at a day-long exposure-tour-cum-field visit and interaction meet of progressive farmers with the scientists/experts of ICAR-Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture with focus on best practices in Horticulture. He urged the participating farmers, scientists and officers of agriculture and allied sectors, in particular to horticulture, to work beyond production and productivity to focus mainly on value addition, branding, mar...

Administration on Wednesday issued advisory over misuse of identities of senior level government functionaries through emails, telephone numbers on platforms like whatsapp and other messaging applications for conveying instructions and directions by cyber criminals. “Instances of cyber crimes like hacking, phishing, identity theft etc are being reported on a daily basis from every nook and corner of the country. The number of these crimes have proliferated due to the extensive and unrestricted availability of data and access to technical know-how available on the internet,” reads a circular issued by the government. Government organizations and authorities have especially been targets of these activities for a variety of reasons, the circular, a copy of which lies with GNS, underline...

MGNREGA Engineers Association on Wednesday extended pen-down strike in favour of their demands till May 25. Rohit Dev Singh Manhas, State President MGNREGA Engineers told GNS that government continues to give cold shoulder to the genuine demands of the qualified engineering and other staff despite assurances from time to time. “There will be complete pen down strike till May 25,” he said, adding, “In case government fails to fulfill our genuine we will intensify the protests.” Work in Rural Development Department in Kashmir has remained affected for the several consecutive days as MGNREGA Engineers Association continued with their pen-down strike in favour of their ‘long pending’ demands. The Association has already issued an appeal to the Lieutenant Governor to “intervene” for...

A 62-year-old tourist from India’s state Gujarat died of suspected heart attack at SMHS in summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday. Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that one tourist identified Rashid Mansuri (62) son of Abdul Gani Mansuri, a resident of Gujarat fell ill at Tangmarg from where he was immediately shifted to SMHS hospital for treatment. Mansuri, after being brought to SMHS for treatment, died at the facility, they said. However, the body of the deceased will be handed over to his family members for last rites after the completion of medico-legal formalities. (KDC)

Security forces on Wednesday arrested two smugglers including a woman in north Kashmir's Kupwara district and recovered brown sugar from them. In a statement issued to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), an official said, a joint team of Kupwara Police and Army conducted routine checking at LoC gate and recovered two packets of narcotics containing Brown sugar from the possession of a lady and her accomplice. Police identified them as Gullu Begum wife of Rasheed Khan resident of Dader(Kandiyan) and Tanveer Khan son of Naseer Khan resident of Kandiyan. The duo, police said had earlier in the day crossed the LoC gate on the pretext of doing farming in the fields across the gate. However while returning, the duo carried the smuggled narcotics and were caught carrying two packet...

At least 11 percent women and 10 percent men in Jammu and Kashmir are suffering from hypertension while as more than half of the population in the UT are in pre hypertensive stage. As per the details of NHFS-5 available with the with the agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), just 36 percent women and 31 percent men in Jammu and Kashmir have normal blood pressure. As per the data, age has correlation with hypertension and with growing age you have more chances of having hypertension as just 3 percent people of 15-19 age are having hypertension which increases to over 4 percent in 20-24 age group, around 7 percent in 25-29 age group, 8.5 percent in 30-34 age group, 14 percent in 35-39 age group, 20 percent in 40-45 age group and 24 percent in 45-49 age group. Similarly, around 60 perc...