GMC to host 'rare' cochlear implant surgery workshop

CURTAIN RAISER

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, May 30: The Government Medical College Srinagar is hosting a first of its kind workshop on Cochlear Implant and Micro Ear Surgery, a rare procedure which till now hasn’t been done in the state. The two day workshop will commence on June 1 while some of the leading surgeons from across the More

Bikers, mostly minors acrobat; police sleeps

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, May 30: Rash motorcycle riding, mostly by youth including teenagers is going frequent on the City streets while the police seems to be acting mute.  The complaints of rash driving and acrobats by bikers have poured in mostly from areas like Parray Pora, Jawahir Nagar and Karan Nagar More

Laloo Sheshgarhi Mohalla protests ‘water supply discrimination’

Residents allege influential family gets potable water tanker for construction

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, May 30: The residents of Laloo Sheshgarhi Mohalla Hyderpora are up in arms against the Public Health Engineering department for allegedly resorting to discrimination in water supply to the colony. The residents said at a time when the taps were running dry in the area, a PHE tanker More

Azad colony seeks additional transformer
Srinagar, May 30: The residents of Azad Colony Awantabhawan Soura have appealed the Chief Engineer Power Development Department (PDD) to get an additional transformer installed in the area at an earliest. “For the last 10 years, we have 650 KVA transformer and it has suffered damages many More

Sheep herd movement sans scheduling
THE other day while heading towards Nishat, I was amazed to see the flock of sheep on main road at Ishber(between Nishat and Shalimar). Not only the locals but even the tourists got frustrated once they came across this kind of traffic chaos, which may be typical of this ignored City. A sheep More

Burn Hall hosts science exhibition
Srinagar, May 30: Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon on Monday inaugurated Science Exhibition 2011 organized by the students of Burn Hall at the school campus. A school spokesman said: “The students have prepared various innovative science models based on the principles of More

Science trg prog commences
Srinagar, May 30: Experts on Monday stressed for promotion of “scientific temperament” among schoolchildren during the inauguration function of a two day training program on Use of Secondary Science Laboratory Kits held in the City. Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion include Joint Director More

  • Kashmir

Wullar tragedy accused yet to be punished: WMC

‘We pleaded navy men to save students, but they did nothing’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, May 30: Five years after the Wullar tragedy, the families of victims are still running from pillar to post to get justice. On this day in 2006, 22 persons including 20 children drowned in Wullar More



  • Srinagar City

GMC to host 'rare' cochlear implant surgery workshop

CURTAIN RAISER

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, May 30: The Government Medical College Srinagar is hosting a first of its kind workshop on Cochlear Implant and Micro Ear Surgery, a rare procedure which till now hasn’t been done in the state More




  • Jammu

MBA from Derbyshire, now a Sarpanch in JK

BINOO JOSHI

Jammu, May 30: He earned a masters in business administration (MBA) in Derbyshire and was flooded with job offers. But Gurmeet Singh Bajwa had other dreams. He has just been elected a sarpanch of a small More



  • Briefs

Shah held at Pulwama

Pulwama, May 30: Democratic Freedom Party chairman, Shabir Ahmad Shah was arrested by police near Rahmoo here on Monday.  According to reports, Shah and his associates were on way to Keller to attend More



  • Business

SFC to get `150 cr under PMRP

`100 cr for recapitalization

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, May 30: In what would give a much-needed push to State Financial Corporation, Ministry of Finance has recommended Rs 100 crore financial support for recapitalization of the debilitating corporation More



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