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April 16, 2024

Kashmir’s Titanic tragedy: Numbing grief overtakes Valley

Srinagar: Every eye became moist when a group of women recited a heart-wrenching elegy for a mother and her two sons who were fished out of Jhelum after a boat capsized at…

Kashmir·Lead Stories·Tech-Film

January 6, 2024

`Visionary tale of perception, superiority, evolution’: Hina Khan starrer `Country of Blind’ receives 7.4 rating

Srinagar: Forget `Dunki’ and `Animal’, ` The Country of Blind’, a movie by Kashmir actors and filmmakers, has received 7.4 CAT INDEX rating from a highly respected Cult Critic magazine. “A visionary…

Kashmir·Lead Stories

January 1, 2024

Brand Kashmir: in a first, 21392 handicraft products GI tagged to boost exports

SRINAGAR: For the first time, 21392 handicrafts products were Geographical Indication (GI) tagged in the first three-quarters of FY24. Official figures reveal that 21392 products have been labeled from April to December 31, 2023. In the…

EXCLUSIVE: J&K Govt mulls vaccinating elderly people at home, may become first in country to do so

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir government is considering at-home COVID-19 vaccination for senior citizens in a bid to prevent them from exposure to infections. Top sources told The Kashmir Monitor that the matter…

May 4, 2021

Health·Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

Humanity first: Retired Kashmir teacher offers to cook meals for COVID positive families

Srinagar: Last few days have been traumatic for retired headmaster Yasmeen Jan Bodha. Flashback of news reports about a sharp spike in COVID cases and entire families turning positive have been playing…

May 3, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News

Attendants of COVID19 patients collecting Oxygen cylinders at a Government Hospital in Srinagar on Monday, April 26, 2021 (KM/Umar Ganie)

OPINION: The oxygen-starved nation

For the last few days, our social media timelines are flooded with pictures and videos of ambulances waiting outside the hospitals, mass cremations, patients struggling for oxygen, and attendants wailing and crying…

April 30, 2021

India·Latest News·Opinion

COVID crisis: No shortage in supply, only increase in demand, says Govt as people hunt for vaccines

Srinagar: Vaccine shortage has hit the immunization drive in Jammu and Kashmir prompting authorities to shut down several inoculation sites. Several centers have put up a “No vaccine” board and asked people…

April 30, 2021

Triple-layer mask to steam inhalation: Centre issues revised guidelines for home isolation, asymptomatic patients

SRINAGAR: As the second COVID wave batters India, the central government has come up with revised guidelines for home isolation of mild and asymptomatic patients. Under the revised guidelines issued by the…

April 29, 2021

Lead Stories·Kashmir·Latest News

COVID crisis: ‘J&K’s vaccine stock will last for 5 more days; getting regular supply’

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has over 2.75 lakh doses of Covishield available which can last for another five days. “There is no shortage of vaccines in Jammu and Kashmir. We have 2.75…

April 23, 2021

Health·Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

Prison reforms in Jammu and Kashmir

A huge barricaded gate with alert paramilitary soldiers peeping through a loophole welcomes people at Srinagar Central Jail. A person has to negotiate a maze of checkpoints and drop gates to reach…

April 22, 2021

Opinion

No country for women

Last month, Kashmir slipped into a shock after a mother of two was set ablaze by her in-laws at Akura village in Anantnag district. The 28-year-old woman suffered 90 percent burns and was admitted to…

April 17, 2021

COVID vaccination: Inoculation rate of citizens above 45 years higher than national average in J&K

Srinagar: Call it a second-wave effect, COVID vaccination has picked up pace in Jammu and Kashmir with inoculation rate of citizens above 45 years crossing the national average. More than 26.60 percent…

April 15, 2021

Lead Stories·Kashmir·Latest News

KM IMPACT: Tribal leaders speak up against ‘money minting’ BGSB University

Srinagar: Days after The Kashmir Monitor reported how enrollment in Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) in Rajouri has drastically declined due to its unaffordable fee structure, several Gujjars and Bakerwals Sunday…

April 11, 2021

Education·Kashmir·Latest News

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