As many as 92 officers of Jammu & Kashmir Administrative Service (JKAS) and Jammu & Kashmir Police Service (JKPS) are attaining superannuation in the calendar year 2022. Details available with news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) lay bare that 56 JKPS officers and 36 JKAS officers would retire in the year 2022. Both the Home department and General Administration Department- who are respectively cadre controlling authority for JKPS and JKAS- have already notified the names of officers who are attaining superannuation in the next 12 months. According to notification of Home department, 56 officers of different ranks, mostly deputy superintendents of police (DySPs), would retire in the next 12 months. Of them, seven officers would retire on January 31, six on February 28, ...

At a time when doctors and experts claim that the third wave is extremely infectious but around 95 percent positive patients have either no symptoms or mild symptoms. People at this stage are resorting to self medication which according to doctors can prove dangerous. Experts and doctors told the local news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that people, whoever, are having any symptoms avoid visiting hospitals at this stage as they will get tested before entering hospitals, they prefer to go to chemist shops and resort to self medication. They said that the positivity rate currently is very high but around 90 percent of the positive patients are in home isolation and without consulting doctors most of them are resorting to self-medication. They further added: “There are thousands...

Amid the heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, the intelligence agencies have warned that militants from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Al Badr are planning to sneak into the Union Territory through Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), sources in the security set up said. The sources, quoting intelligence inputs, said that at least seven militants of LeT and five of Al Badra are trying to cross over to Jammu and Kashmir from two different areas located in PoK. The intelligence alert has specifically said that from one place in PoK, the LeT ultras will be trying to infiltrate with the help of a launch pad commander, while the five Al Badr militants are located near a launch pad in Balakot, who are being escorted by a local guide to infiltrate from the Bhimber Gali side in Poonch district of Jam...