The central government has doubled fund allocation to Rs.424 crore from the previous Rs.212 crore for the health sector in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Sunday.


Funds to Kashmir health sector doubled: Azad


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Jammu and Kashmir Public Health Engineering (PHE) Minister Sham Lal Sharma Sunday ordered the immediate removal of a top engineer from his post and withheld salaries of other senior engineers for their "non-performance".


Salaries of Kashmir engineers withheld for non-performance


The Indian Army Sunday said it had recovered a major haul of arms and ammunition from near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district.


Weapons haul unearthed near LoC: Army


Leh and Kargil towns in Jammu and Kashmir recorded the coldest temperatures of the season Sunday at minus 17.3 and minus 16.4 degrees Celsius respectively, officials said.


Leh, Kargil towns coldest in Kashmir


Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Saturday welcomed the DGMO-level talks between India and Pakistan.


'DGMO-level talks follow-up of Manmohan-Sharif New York meet'


In a significant development, a group of Islamic scholars Thursday ruled that "half-widows", or women whose husbands had disappeared during the over 20-year-long conflict in Jammu and Kashmir and whose whereabouts are since unknown, can re-marry after four years of waiting for their spouses.


'Wives of disappeared Kashmiri men can remarry after four years'


A woman and her two daughters died of suffocation after inhaling cooking gas leaking from a cylinder in their house in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district Thursday, police said.


Woman, two daughters die of suffocation in Kashmir


Indian Army's Western Command chief Lt. Gen. Philip Campose Thursday reviewed the operational preparedness of the army's 9 Corps here.


Army commander reviews 9 Corps' preparedness


Jammu and Kashmir has set up control rooms to promptly intervene in case of man-animal conflict in the state. Victims of such conflicts will also get enhanced compensation, Forest Minister Mian Altaf Ahmad said.


Control rooms to check man-animal conflict in Kashmir


Over 1,000 students and volunteers Thursday participated in a heritage walk in Jammu and Kashmir's winter capital, Jammu.


Over 1,000 participate in Jammu heritage walk


A court of inquiry ordered by the army Wednesday indicted six army personnel, including a colonel, two majors and three other officers, for their involvement in a staged shootout in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district in 2010.


Six armymen indicted for Kashmir staged shootout


The weather office here said Tuesday that there is little chance of snowfall in the Kashmir Valley during the next six days.


Snowfall unlikely in Kashmir over next six days


This world-famous ski resort and tourist destination came alive Monday with scores of domestic and foreign tourists enjoying the snowfall that gave the Himalayan meadow at 8,820 feet a Christmas-card ambience.


Gulmarg snowfall raises adrenaline level of holidayers  (Letter from Kashmir )


Due to slippery conditions, traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway will be allowed to move in one direction only every alternate day till further orders starting Tuesday, authorities said Monday.


One-way traffic on Jammu-Srinagar highway from Tuesday


The director generals of military operation (DGMO) of India and Pakistan will meet at the Attari-Wagah border Tuesday to discuss ways to prevent violation of ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC).


India, Pakistan DGMOs to meet Tuesday


Nine people were killed in a road accident in Kishtwar district of the Jammu region, police said Sunday.


Nine Killed in Jammu road accident


Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday said that the right to medicare should be recognized as a fundamental right so that people are legally empowered to seek the best available medical treatment free of cost.


Right to medicare should be a fundamental right: Omar Abdullah


Light to moderate snowfall began Saturday morning in higher reaches of the Valley as the weather office said rain or light snowfall would occur in summer capital till Sunday.


Kashmir mountains receive snowfall


The R.C. Gandhi commission probing the Aug 9, 2013 communal violence in Kishtwar town of Jammu region has given a clean chit to the then minister of state for home Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo.


Commission probing Kishtwar violence exonerates Kichloo


Employment generation for youth of Jammu and Kashmir will be the main economic goal of of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) if it wins the 2014 assembly elections, party president Mehbooba Mufti said Friday.


Creating jobs for youth PDP's main economic goal: Mehbooba Mufti


Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami arrived here Friday on a four day visit to Jammu and Kashmir during which he is scheduled to take a detailed review of the security situation in the state.

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