Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Ghulam Hassan Mir on Thursday expressed deep concern over the governance deficit which has added to the sufferings of people in J&K. Addressing a meeting of party workers from Batmaloo constituency at JKAP office at The Bund in Lal Chowk Srinagar, Mir said the […]
Inspector General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar on Thursday termed the killing of BJP leader along with father and brother a “preplanned attack” by the militants and identified the them. Sheikh Waseem Bari, former BJP district president for Bandipora, Sheikh Wasim Bari, his father Bashir Ahmad and brother Umer Bashir were killed yesterday in a […]
Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Thursday said there has been an “uninformed commentary” on exclusion of certain topics from the CBSE syllabus to portray a false narrative. The comments by the minister came following a controversy over the reduction of syllabus by the CBSE due to the COVID-19 situation, with the Opposition alleging […]
Srinagar: Panic has gripped at Jammu and Kashmir Bank’s corporate headquarters in Srinagar after 27 staff members tested positive for coronavirus. An official confirmed to news agency Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS) that 27 employees have been tested positive at J&K Bank’s corporate headquarters in Srinagar. The J&K Bank management has also decided that all […]
Top IPS officer Basant Kumar Rath, posted in Jammu and Kashmir, has been suspended for alleged instances of “gross misconduct and misbehaviour”, according to an order issued by the Home Ministry Wednesday. The order says a disciplinary proceeding against Rath is contemplated in connection with “repeated instances of gross misconduct and misbehaviour”, which has been […]
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday passed another grim coronavirus milestone with three million confirmed cases, as President Donald Trump downplayed the risks posed by the pandemic and aggressively pushed for schools to reopen. The coronavirus is surging in several southern hotspots including Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Arizona, while it has almost entirely receded from […]
COLOMBO: Domestic cricket in Sri Lanka will resume next Tuesday without spectators, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. Lockdown and curfews have ceased in Sri Lanka, where the total number of infections was reported to be 2,084 on Wednesday. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) organised two residential training camps for the national team squad last […]
CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on Thursday condemned the killings of BJP leader Sheikh Waseem Bari, his father Bashir Ahmed and brother Umar Bashir, who were killed by the militants on Wednesday evening in Bandipora. There is no justification to kill anybody and violence has no place in any civilized society. The brutal incident […]
SRINAGAR, JULY 9: Lt Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu has condemned the killings of BJP leader Sheikh Waseem Bari, his father Bashir Ahmed and brother Umar Bashir, who were killed by the militants on Wednesday evening. In a condolence message, the Lt Governor has said that the barbaric act of killing innocent people is against the […]
After the delay for the Darbar move, the civil secretariat in Srinagar started functioning but most of the offices have been kept open in Jammu bringing question marks on the entire exercise of Darbar move. Is the Union Government seriously thinking of saying goodbye to this costly exercise in which crores of rupees are spent […]