Acting on the instructions of Lieutenant Governor, the Health and Medical Education Department has identified about 96 vacancies of nurses for the NHM contractual Covid nurses in various hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir. According to a communique in this regard, these posts include 36 in Government Medical College, Jammu and 18 under the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, apart from vacancies in  Doda, Baramulla, Rajouri, Anantnag.  It is expected that the vacancies would be advertised soon and these contractual employees shall be given preference in the recruitment process. Pertinently, LG had assured the nurses and other para-medical staff that their contracts would be extended by three months.  He had also announced that they will be given priority in recruitment of various po...

The Jammu Kashmir Police with the assistance of Rajasthan Police have arrested at least 8 ‘fraudsters’ who had created a fake social media account of ADG rank officer of JK Police Mukesh Singh and were duping naïve people of their hard-earned money. Pertinently, ADG Mukesh Singh who has earlier served as IGP Jammu had registered a complaint with the Crime Branch after he found that fake social media account was made in his name. The Crime Branch after investigation found that fake social media accounts were created in Alwar city of Rajasthan and accordingly Jammu and Kashmir Police launched a joint operation with Rajasthan Police and arrested eight fraudsters allegedly involved in cheating lakhs of rupees by creating a fake social networking account of additional director general, J&...

A scooty rider was killed after he was hit by a tractor in Arwani area of Bijbehara in South Kashmir's Anantnag district on Saturday morning.buy valtrex generic buy valtrex generic An official said that a tractor driven by Aqib Ganie of Hassanpora hit scooty (JK13-2248) driven by Tajamul Islam, son of Sheraz Ahmad from Chinigam Frisal at Makadpora, Arwani this morning. The scooty rider died on the spot,” he said, adding that the tractor driver flee from the spot—(KNO)

Amid cloud cover, the minimum temperature settled at above freezing point at most places in Jammu Kashmir on Saturday. A meteorological department official here said that Srinagar, the summer capital of J K recorded a low of 1.7°C against last night’s 2.4°C. Kashmir is presently under the grip of 40-day long harshest period of winter, known locally as ‘Chillai Kalan, which started from December 21. It is followed by a 20-day long ‘Chillai Khurd’ and a 10-day-long ‘Chilla Bachha’. The mercury settled at minus 6.5°C against minus 5.1°C on the previous night at the world famous resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, the official said. It was minus 0.7°C below normal for the famous resort which recorded 3.3cms of fresh snowfall. Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashm...

Two militants have been killed in an encounter between government forces and militants in Chowgam area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, officials said on Saturday. A senior police officer said that two militants have been killed whose identification is being ascertained while as search operation is on in the area. Earlier, an official said that a joint team of Police, Army and CRPF launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) on specific information about the presence of militants in the area.buy amoxil online buy amoxil no prescription He said that as the joint team of forces approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding militants fired upon them, which was retaliated, triggering a gunfight—(KNO)

An elderly woman died of ‘asphyxiation’ while a husband-wife duo and their four children were hospitalized in Potha village of Rajouri district on Friday. The family fell unconscious at their home following which they were rescued from the spot by villagers and were taken to a local hospital. An elderly woman in the family identified as Durgi Devi (79) was declared dead at the hospital while her son and daughter-in-law as well as their four children are undergoing treatment. Those undergoing treatment at Medical College Jammu have been identified as Pritam Singh, his wife Neelam Devi, their four children—Roshi Devi (18), Jasbir Kumar (11), Palki Devi (09) and Raghav Singh (04)—(KNO)

In Srinagar city, around 70 percent of cabs and other passenger vehicles have been off the roads since long adding to the woes of travellers. According to the official figures accessed by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), only 20-30 percent of the passenger vehicles plying on Srinagar roads are being operated by the private agencies. “Only 20-30 percent of Sumos and passenger vehicles are being operated by the private transport agencies while 60-70 percent of such traffic are wanderers,” it reads. Meanwhile, KNO spoke to some of the daily commuters who said that, most of the times; they either have to wait for hours to get the passenger vehicle or have to hire the Auto-Rickshaw who charge a hefty amount for a small distance. One of the commuters of Saida-Kadal area o...

Termed as 'Stratigical Assets of Nation' on 12 September 2017 by then Home Minister of India Rajnath Singh when thousands of people from villages near Line of Control (LoC) migrated to Nowshera town in Rajouri following cross border shelling, the civil population living along LoC is having a sigh of relief following the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan this year. Over the years, the civilians not only face loss of the lives, damages in residential and commercial structures but also face shortage of food like maize and wheat due to poor agriculture production as most of the people cannot venture in their own fields due to continuous shelling.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/levitra.html However, the ceasefire agreement between both the armies that came int...

A Power Development Department daily-wager lineman electrocuted in Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district last week, succumbed to his injuries this afternoon. As reported a lineman namely Mohammad Amin, 55, son of Mohammad Azam Awan was electrocuted while repairing a transformer at his native village Kalgi in Uri on December 15. The lineman was shifted to sub-district hospital Uri from where he was referred to GMC Baramulla for preferential treatment. However, ten days after admission at the hospital, the lineman succumbed to his injuries this afternoon, as informed by a medical official at the hospital. (GNS)