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  • Hotels in Kashmir's Gulmarg Without Sewage Treatment Plants

    gulmarg

    Ishfaq Tantry SRINAGAR: All hotels at famous ski resort Gulmarg are functioning without any sewage treatment plant (STP) to manage the toilet waste. In addition, the tonnes of solid waste and garbage generated at the resort goes untreated as at present there is no mechanism or facility in place to manage the waste at Gulmarg, not even an incinerator. Though the only five star hotel at Gulmarg has installed an STP, it has not been made functional yet despite...

    Posted today

    Kashmir Border Row Casts Pall Over India-China Summit

    India-China

    NEW DELHI: China’s newly-installed premier landed in Delhi last night for summit meetings between two countries enriched by mutual trade, conditioned against mutual trust but over-shadowed by a recent border stand-off. The trip by Li Keqiang begins in the shadow of a border incident that subsided just days ago but briefly put Indian and Chinese troops just 300 metres from one another in the mountains of eastern Kashmir. Chinese troops pitched a handful of tents 19kms inside the de-facto...

    Posted today

    Central University Kashmir Gets 4000 Kanals of Land

    Central University of Kashmir

    SRINAGAR: The Central University Kashmir (CUK), functioning from rented buildings for the past few years, will have its own campus as government has allotted 4,000 kanals of land in central Kashmir, where foundation stone for the main building will be laid on May 28. "We have been functioning from different buildings located in various areas of the summer capital, Srinagar, for the past few years, first Vice Chancellor of the CUK Prof Abdul Wahid said. He said "the university could not...

    Posted 1 day ago

    'Kashmiris and Srilankan Tamils Have Identical Destinies'

    yasin malik

    CUDDALORE: Chief of the Naam Tamizhar Katchi, a tamil political party, Seeman on Saturday sprang a surprise on the police when he brought in JKLF leader Yasin Malik to address a public rally. The rally was organised to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Mullivaikkal massacre at the end of the Eelam (Srilankan Tamil state) war in 2009. “We were totally in the dark until Yasin Malik landed here for the rally. Seeman did not...

    Posted 1 day ago

    Shepherd dies in Kashmir blast

    Blast

    JAMMU: A teenage shepherd was killed in a blast in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. The teenager's aunt had first picked an explosive device from the bushes in Kither forests while taking their cattle for grazing yesterday, and the device was then taken from her by the boy, Superintendent of Police (SP), Kishtwar Kulbir Singh told PTI. As the woman moved ahead with the cattle, the boy hit it with a stone resulting in the blast in which he was killed, the SP said adding that he was...

    Posted 1 day ago

    Recent Kashmir Quake: 50,000 Houses and Schools Damaged

    earthquake

    SRINAGAR: In Chenab valley in Jammu and Kashmir, people are scared to enter their houses due to frequent earthquakes. Since the May 1 earthquake that measured 5.9 on the richer scale, 30 aftershocks have hit this hilly region. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought 450 crore for relief. "There are cracks in our house. TV fell down. Our house was shaking. Everything shakes, mama keeps on shouting, runs away from the house holding me. The...

    Posted 1 day ago

    Sale of Fake Drugs in Kashmir Continues Despite Crackdown

    medicine

    Ishfaq Tantry SRINAGAR: The ongoing probe into the spurious drugs scam has revealed that the drugs had also entered the open market. The officials of the Drug and Food Control Organisation (DFCO) in Srinagar and Sopore seized the drug in question, Maximizin-625, from many private chemist shops and distributors. Documents submitted by the DFCO in the court reveal that the spurious antibiotic drug, Maximizin-625 was tracked and seized by its field staff from 37...

    Posted 1 day ago

    Probe Finds Kashmir Minister's Brother Guilty of Youth's Death

    probe

    RAJOURI: Despite mounting pressure on Health Minister Shabir Ahmed Khan to save the skin of his real brother, Dr Bashir Khan, the minister has assured strict action against him. He said the doctor’s negligence led to the death of 18-year-old Shariq Shahdab, nephew of Dadral MLA Choudhary Zulfiqar in District Hospital, Rajouri, during an operation on May 1. The Magisterial Inquiry Committee that conducted a probe into the death of Shariq has clearly indicted Dr Bashir Khan, real brother...

    Posted 1 day ago

    Seven Die in Kashmir Mishaps

    kashmir

    SRINAGAR: Seven people including four kids were killed in various mishaps across Kashmir valley, police say. Sameer Ahmad sheikh and Dawood Ahmad sheikh, both aged 6, were bathing in the river Jhelum when they drowned at Sheer colony in northern Kashmir's Sopore. Police say efforts are on to trace them. A labourer from Punjab state, Surinder Lal, 22, also drowned in the Jhelum at Sangam in south Kashmir, they said. Two persons, including a five year old boy, died of electric...

    Posted 2 days ago.