Shiekh Shabeer
Pulwama, CNS, 23- Oct; Three members of a nomad family died and another remains critically injured after their makeshift tent came under debris of a soil bund which caved-in amid incessant rains in Noorpora area of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday.
Sources told CNS that four members of the nomad (Gujjar Community) family came under the debris, toppling the makeshift tent belonging to one Irshad Ahmad son of Abdul Gafoor near Mini Secretariat Noorpora Tral.
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Jammu & Kashmir
Altaf Bukhari cautions J&K Govt. against participating in All India Quota of Medical PG seats
Any such move would ruin legitimate rights of J&K’s PG aspirants’
Srinagar, CNS, 29-Sep: Apni Party President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari has cautioned against any move by the J&K UT government that can prove detrimental to rights of the Jammu and Kashmir Medical Post Graduate aspirants who are up in arms against joining 50 per cent All India Quota seats of all States.
Taking a strong exception to a notification issued by Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) Directorate General of Health Se...
Helicopter crashes In Udhampur
Jammu, CNS, 21- Sep: A helicopter crashed or crash-landed in Shiv Garh Dhar area in Udhampur district on Tuesday, officials said.
Following the Information, a police team has been dispatched towards the area. Initial reports suggest that it was an army chopper.
DIG Udhampur Reasi Range Suleman Choudhary said that they got information and have dispatched police team towards the area.
“There was foggy weather in the area and it is yet to be established whether the helicopter crashed or it was cra...
DAK seeks to set up medical university in Kashmir
Srinagar, Sep 20, KNT: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday has sought setting up of a medical university in Kashmir.
“The medical university would strengthen and expand the health sector and transform the health care scenario in the region,” said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.
“With expanding medical, nursing and other allied health sciences, medical university is the need of the hour,” he said.
The DAK President said medical varsity would integrate the health care system and provide...
علاحدگی پسند لیڈر سید علی گیلانی کا انتقال
سری نگر، یکم ستمبر (یو این آئی) سخت گیر حریت کانفرنس کے سابق صدر سید علی شاہ گیلانی 92 برس کی میں طویل علالت کے بعد کل رات سری نگر کی اپنی رہائش گاہ پر انتقال کر گئے۔
علیحدگی پسند لیڈر کے کنبے میں دو بیٹے اور چار بیٹیوں کے علاوہ کئی پوتے پوتیاں اور نواسے نواسیاں ہیں۔
سرکاری ذرائع نے بتایا کہ سری نگر میں احتیاطی طورپر جمعہ کو پابندی لگائی کاسکتی ہے
گیلانی کے کنبے کے ذرائع نے بتایا کہ انہوں نے سری نگر کے باہری علاقے حیدر پورہ واقع رہائش گاہ پر آخری سانس لی۔
Drug Alert: Hospitals asked to stop use of ‘Ringer Lactate’ injection after patients develop allergic symptoms
Neyaz Elahi
Srinagar, Aug 31, KNT: Jammu Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation (JKMSC) has issued a ‘drug alert’ after several patients at JVC Bemina developed allergic symptoms after they were administered ‘Ringer Lactate’ injection.
Chief Medical Officers from Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Ganderbal and Medical Superintendent JLNM Hospital Rainawari, Srinagar have been directed to stop the use of ‘Ringer Lactate’ injection immediately.
Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that Medical Offi...
Srinagar records coldest August temperature in 16 years
Srinagar, 16 August, 2021: Fresh light snowfall in upper reaches and incessant rains in plains on Sunday brought mercury levels down in Jammu and Kashmir.
As per Kashmir Weather, an independent weather forecaster, 12.5°C in Srinagar last night was the lowest August temperature since 2005.
The temperature was 5.6 degrees below the normal.
On 31 August 2005, Srinagar had recorded a minimum temperature of 10.5°C.
Meanwhile, Kokernag in south Kashmir recorded its all-time lowest August temperature a...
Collision leaves 4 tourists, 2 drivers injured in Sonmarg
Umar Raina
Sonmarg, July 21, KNT: The collision between two vehicles left two drivers and four tourists injured in summer hill station of Sonmarg here in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.
Police sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that there was a collision between an Innova (JK05B/9390) and a Tata Sumo (JK07/0924) resulting in injuries to four tourists and two drivers of both vehicles.
Both speeding vehicles suffered partial damage while besides 4 tourists, drivers of both vehicles...
Three nomads injured in Sonmarg bear attack
Umar Raina
Ganderbal, July 19, KNT: Three nomads sustained injuries after a black bear attacked them at Thajiwas area of Sonamarg in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Monday.
Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that three nomads grazing their live-stock were attacked by a bear leaving them injured. The bear according to a Wild Life Department official was present in the bushes and after noticing the movement of the humans, it attacked the three nomads.
The injured have been taken ...
Leopard mauls 7-year old girl to death
Umar Raina
Ganderbal, July 12, KNT: Hours after a leopard mauled a 7-year old girl to death, Wild Life Department launched a massive search operation to capture the wild beast.
Pertinently, on Sunday late evening, a leopard took away a 7-year-old girl from an orchard when her grand-mother was accompanying her.
The incident occurred in Zazuna village of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. Police, locals and Wild Life team had launched a search operation shortly after the incident and recovered...