Lieutenant Governor chairs 39th meeting of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board

Lieutenant Governor chairs 39th meeting of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board

Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu, Chairman of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), presided over 39th Board meeting of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board today in which the Board members participated virtually through video conference to discuss the conduct of the Yatra 2020. The meeting was attended by Shri B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Bipul Pathak, […]

Annual Amarnnath Yatra cancelled

Annual Amarnnath Yatra cancelled

Shri Amarnnath shrine board of Jammu and Kashmir UT on Tuesday cancelled the annual Amarnnath yatra 2020 citing surge in Covid-19 cases. Highly placed Sources said, that the decision was taken during a meeting of Shrine Board in which Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor GC Murmu and other officers took participation which was held on […]

Water paucity forces women to protest outside DC office Shopian

Water paucity forces women to protest outside DC office Shopian

Several women on Tuesday stage a protest demonstration outside Deputy Commissioner’s office Shopian against paucity of drinking water supply in the area. According to reports reached to Kashmir News Service (KNS), large number of women with empty vessels blocked the road outside District Development Office in south Kashmir’s Shopian district for not getting adequate supply […]

26 infected SKIMS staff members undergoing treatment, situation inside hospital grim, junior doctors, paramedics scared

26 infected SKIMS staff members undergoing treatment, situation inside hospital grim, junior doctors, paramedics scared

Staff members of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura who tested Covid-19 positive earlier, have been formally admitted and are undergoing treatment under Covid-19 protocol, official said. He added at least 26 employees from SKIMS, Soura including staff nurses, doctors driver and some laboratory technicians have tested Covid-19 positive couple of days ago and […]

Deoband writes to Yogi, seeks lifting of curbs on Eid-ul-Azha

Deoband writes to Yogi, seeks lifting of curbs on Eid-ul-Azha

Deoband (UP): Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has sent a letter to the Yogi Adityanath government with five demands for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. Darul Uloom spokesman Mufti Ashraf Usmani, in the letter that said that namaaz should be allowed in mosques with proper social distancing. He said arrangements should also be made for slaughter of animals […]

NCERT adds scrapping of Article 370 to Class 12 textbook chapter, drops portion on separatist politics in JK

NCERT adds scrapping of Article 370 to Class 12 textbook chapter, drops portion on separatist politics in JK

The NCERT has revised a chapter in its Class 12 political science textbook to drop a paragraph on separatist politics in Jammu and Kashmir and to add a brief mention of the scrapping of its special status last year. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revised the chapter in the textbook […]

Zuckerberg says he has ‘no deal of any kind’ with Trump

Zuckerberg says he has ‘no deal of any kind’ with Trump

WASHINGTON: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published on Monday he has “no deal of any kind” with President Donald Trump on content moderation on the social media giant. Zuckerberg, in an interview with Axios, rejected the “speculation” that Facebook had an arrangement that gives the president free rein on the platform. “Let me be clear: […]

England close in on victory as West Indies stumble

England close in on victory as West Indies stumble

MANCHESTER: England were left needing five wickets for victory in Monday’s final session on day five of the second Test at Old Trafford to level the series as a determined West Indies dug in to finish at 137-5 at the tea interval. West Indies, who were set a stiff target of 312 to win the […]