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Shopian: In many Shopian villages that remain out of bounds due to snow accumulated on roads, people have come out with shovels to clear the snow themselves. In Kadgam, Dubpora, Barbug and adjoining areas, locals started clearing the snow after the administration failed to do so for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday. Shopian district has witnessed four to five feet of snowfall since Sunday. There are only eight snow clearance machines for the district, among which two are of no use due to...

Kashmir Global - News and Research on Kashmir MENUMENU 4 fighters, civilian killed, in south Kashmir June 2, 2019 By Hassan Shopian: Top militant Saju Tiger along with another militant and a civilian “associate” of theirs – according to the police – were killed by government forces in a nine-hour-long gunfight which took place in orchards at Dragad locality of Sugan village in Shopian district on Friday. In the evening, another gunfight in Midoora area of Tral in Pulwama district ended ...

Anantnag: Even amid this bone-chilling cold, children in need of nebulisation are being administered treatment in the unheated corridors of the Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCH) here in Sherbagh area of Anantnag district. The hospital being one of its kind in entire south Kashmir is frequented by thousands of people from not only south Kashmir but the Chenab valley region as well. However, for years now, the hospital has been facing a severe space crunch, where patients (pregnant women) a...

Families brought to convince; both militants were involved in killing of PDP leader’s PSO in Natipora, says IGP Anantnag: Two local militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) laid down their arms after a brief gunfight with government forces here in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Tuesday. The militants have been identified as Amir Ahmad Mir, a resident of Hatipora in Kulgam and Yawar Wagay, a resident of Reban village in Shopian district. The two of them had joined LeT recently and were trapped ...

Srinagar: Naseer Ahmad Mir, the son of J&K Congress chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir, lost the DDC election from Verinag seat in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, to none other than Peer Shahbaz Ahmad, who was expelled from the Congress just before the election, apparently to clear the way for Ghulam Mir’s son to contest from Verinag. Peer Shahbaz won the seat as an Independent with a good margin of votes. Peer was the Block Development Council (BDC) Chairman in his native area of Verinag when the C...

Tazeema, is a resident of Batdalow Khrew village of Pampore. Tazeema got 1074 votes while as her rival, got 725 votes. She won by a margin of 349 votes. The constituency was reserved for women and four candidates were fray including Tazeem Akhter of Peoples Democratic Party, Babita Bhat of Bartiya Janta Party, Shah Zareena of National Conference and Haleema Bano, Independent. A total of 2,639 votes were registered for the Constituency with PDP’s Tazeema securing 1074, Haleema Bano, an Indepen...

Pampore: The Jammu and Kashmir Police along with Civil Society members, youth and Students carried out a joint anti- drug abuses rally at Saffron town Pampore in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday. The rally was organized by district police Awantipora. The students and youth holding banners and shouting slogans took part in large numbers and held a road show by walking from the Police station through various roads of the town. The rally was a part of on-going anti drug week which is b...

Anantnag: A CRPF trooper and a civilian were among two people injured in a grenade explosion on Sunday evening in Achabal area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The identities of the injured were not immediately known. However, a senior health official from the area told Kashmir Reader that the two of them had minor splinter injuries. “They were discharged after their injuries were attended to,” the official said. The incident took place at about 6:15 pm in main town Achabal of Anantn...

LG Manoj Sinha to lay foundation stone today in Budgam Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government is setting up the first of its kind Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) tertiary hospital in Kashmir which will provide free medical care to labourers in the organised sector, as well as to their families, for specialised treatments including heart surgeries and knee replacements, for an unlimited period. Kashmir Reader has learnt that the hospital is being built at an estimated cost of Rs...

Chadoora: Residents of Takiya village in Nagam area of Budgam district have been suffering the administration’s apathy for more than a decade now with a shabby, unpaved road going uphill to their houses. The authorities have failed to lay even the basic crushed stone metal on the about 500-feet link road from Lolipora to Takiya, a few metres from the main Chadoora-Chrar-i-Sharif road. The literally bare road is a nuisance to the residents throughout the year. In summers, the plumes of dust em...