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English By Bilal Hussain Share on Facebook Print this page SRINAGAR - News outlets in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir are under rising financial pressure, as authorities bar more than 30 media houses from state advertising.     The region’s Department of Information and Public Relations this month removed 10 newspapers in Kashmir and 24 publications in the Jammu region from a list of outlets approved for state ad revenue — known as being empaneled — following a meeting late last year.  Although some were removed for not mee...

  Bandipora: An 18-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a road accident in S.K Payeen  area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday . A police official told Kashmir Reader that the motorcyclist was hit by a speedy bus bearing registration number JK13-1815 near Churtung Mod area of S.K Payeen Bandipora, leaving him critically injured. He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival. A police official identified the deceased as Liyakat Ahmad Mir Gojar son of Hidayatulla Mir Gojar, a resident of Check Garoora area of Bandipora. Police have ta...

Demands establishment of Shia Board, lift ban stone quarrying in Kashmir PAMPORE: Bharatiya Janata Party National Youth Vice President and DDC member from Srinagar Constituency Er Aijaz Hussain on Monday called on Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir UT, Manoj Sinha and briefed him about various issues. Talking to Kashmir Reader from Jammu, Aijaz told that he discussed various issues concerning public, development, and governance with LG of Jammu and Kashmir UT at Raj Bhavan Jammu. He told Kashmir Reader that he requested LG for establishing a Shia Development Board for the Shia community...

Shopian: The health department in Shopian has found itself in an embarrassing situation after misspelling simple words on banners related to a dry run for Covid-19 vaccination. The flex banners put up by the staff announcing the event misspelt “vaccination” as “vacinaion” and “district” as “dictrict”. After the mistake was brought to the notice of health authorities, the word “district” was corrected on one of the banners but the other misspelt word was left as it is. The dry run for the Covid-19 vaccine was held on Friday with about 25 participants. Similar banners were f...

SRINAGAR: There is new drama at Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) just one-and-a-half month after Mayor Junaid Mattu was elected. Now the Congress party has filed a defection petition against its 10 councillors for voting in favour of Mattu despite the party whip, which was issued in favour of Sheikh Imran, former Deputy Mayor. The petition was filed by Basharat-bin-Qadir, the Congress’s whip issuer, before the Chief Election Commissioner on December 22, seeking disqualification of its councillors. Today (Monday), the case was heard, following which January 12 has been set as the date fo...