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United States likely to lift negative travel advisory on J&#...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | Aug 24:In a significant development, Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday said that the United States was likely to rollback the negative travel advisory on the UT in the wake of the improving situation in Kashmir. Addressing the gathering at Rajbhawan Jammu after laying the E-foundation stone for the restoration of the holy shrine of Shiv Khori. The project has been handed over to JSW group that will add new facilities at the shrine which will increase...
Young Kashmir Authour Faheem-ul-Islam comes up with his thir...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | Aug 24: A young author, Faheem ul Islam, hailing from the picturesque village of Achan in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, has once again captivated readers with his literary prowess. Currently pursuing Masters in International Politics from the Department of Strategic and Security Studies at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Faheem has unveiled his much-anticipated third book titled “Confronting The Crossroads: Muslim Youth in the 21st Century”. Faheem’s literary...
Drug Addiction Rattling the Valley, De-addiction centers wit...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | Aug 23: The number of patients visiting OPDs in the Valley’s largest District De-addiction Centre in SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, jumped 75% to 41,110 in the year-ending March 2023, Indian Express reported. This means that one patient walked into the OPD every 12 minutes. As per the report, in the previous financial year, over 21,000 follow-up patients and 2,000 new patients had turned up at the DDC while in ’22, the number of new users has gone past 3000 and follow-up patients...
No outsider being given land under PMAY in J&K: LG Mano...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | July 15:Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Saturday said that no outsider was being given land under Pradhan Mantri’s Awas Yojna (PMAY) and those who grabbed state land illegally should stop misleading people. Addressing a function at Dak Bunglow, Baramulla district of north Kashmir, the LG said that many people came to him stating that they were eligible for the PMAY but they had no land. “So the administration took a review and decided to give such families...
India launches historic Chandrayaan-3 mission to land spacec...
( India )
New Delhi | WTNS | July 15: An Indian spacecraft has blazed its way towards the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, India’s space agency said. Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, took off from a launch pad in Sriharikota, an island in southern India, with an orbiter, a lander and a rover, in a demonstration of India’s emerging space technology. The spacecraft will embark on a...
MMU led by Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir strongly condemns desecration o...
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Srinagar | WTNS | July 06 :Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema strongly condemned the outrageous act of burning copies of the Holy Qur’an by a miscreant in Sweden on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha in the presence of the government and the administration who had given permission to that person to commit the blasphemous act. The desecration of sacred texts and insults to revered personalities , deeply disturbs the followers of the religion whose symbols are being abused, and badly hurts their sentiments and feelings....
Kashmir’s Chinar Man: On a mission to preserve legacy,...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | July 04: Setting a glaring example of social-responsibility, a man in Kupwara has planted hundreds of Chinar trees to preserve the legacy of Kashmir’s rich past and contribute towards the conservation of environment. Earning the tag of the “Chinar Man of Kashmir”, Abdul Ahad Khan, 36, a resident of Hatmulla Mughabpora in North Kashmir’s Kupwara has since past many years, embarked on a journey to plant hundreds of Chinar trees in the remote district’s...
Grand Ayatollah Sistani slams desecration of Holy Quran in S...
( Iraq )
Baghdad | WTNS | June 30:The office of Iraq’s top religious authority has urged the United Nations to prevent desecration of Islamic sanctities following repeated acts of sacrilege in Sweden. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani, the prominent Marja in Iraq, described the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden as insulting and emphasized that freedom of speech in no way justifies violation of sanctity of Quran and promotion of extremism. As per the reports of Wilayat Times News Service, the office...
Ayatollah Khamenei: Hajj can foil all plots of arrogant powe...
( Saudi Arab )
Srinagar | WTNS | June 28:Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the annual Hajj rituals can foil all the plots of the arrogant powers and the Zionists against humanity. In a Tuesday message to the 2023 Hajj pilgrimage, the Leader said the rituals can render ineffective all the plans of the arrogant powers and Zionism aimed at the moral downfall of humanity at the current time and future. Ayatollah Khamenei added that the arrogant powers and Zionism are targeting...
Jammu & Kashmir planted more than 15 million trees last...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar | WTNS | May 12:Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Thursday said that Jammu and Kashmir government has planted more than 15 million trees in the previous financial year across the Union Territory. Speaking during the Youth-20 (Y20) consultation meet on climate change under India’s G20 presidency, Manoj Sinha said that Jammu and Kashmir is not famous only for snow clad mountains but also for intellectual brilliance. “In the past financial year only, we have planted more than 15...