Revive dying crafts; link students to industries: Dr Samoon to CDI

Revive dying crafts; link students to industries: Dr Samoon to CDI

Registration of 7 crafts under GI tagging soon SRINAGAR, JUNE 8: In its 28th Executive Committee meeting of Craft Development Institute (CDI), Principal Secretary, Skill Development Department, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon today emphasised upon the faculty and administration of CDI to revive crafts that are nearing extinction. He asked them to work for innovations to […]

Ensure strict monitoring of vaccination drive for 18-44 years at Gbl: DC  

Ensure strict monitoring of vaccination drive for 18-44 years at Gbl: DC  

GANDERBAL, JUNE 08: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ganderbal, Krittika Jyotsna today exhorted upon the nodal officers designated for ensuring smooth vaccination process for 18-44 years in the district to ensure strong monitoring and coordination at all levels for covering all priority groups at an earliest. The DC gave this direction during a meeting convened here […]

Old Jammu Railway Station at Bikram Chowk to be developed as heritage site under Smart City Project: Div Com

Old Jammu Railway Station at Bikram Chowk to be developed as heritage site under Smart City Project: Div Com

Directs tourism department & all concerned to devise renovation plan; ascertain revenue details, other aspects JAMMU, JUNE 08: Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer today said that the government is planning to develop historical Bikram Chowk Railway Station as a heritage site to attract tourists visiting the City of Temples. He was on a visit […]

Navin Choudhary flags off vans carrying cherry fruit produce for airlifting

Navin Choudhary flags off vans carrying cherry fruit produce for airlifting

This is a path breaking start for the marketing of perishable fruits: Choudhary SRINAGAR, JUNE 08: Principal Secretary, Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and Horticulture departments, Navin Kumar Choudhary today flagged off the vans carrying Cherry produce of various sellers of Kashmir valley which will be subsequently airlifted to Delhi and Mumbai from Srinagar airport. Director […]

J&K Reports 1184 Fresh Covid-19 Cases, 11 Deaths

J&K Reports 1184 Fresh Covid-19 Cases, 11 Deaths

One More Black Fungus Case Confirmed, Total Now 17 A day after recording less than a thousand covid-19 cases after two months, Jammu and Kashmir reported 1184 fresh infections during last 24 hours, even as 11 more people succumbed to the virus during the time, officials said on Tuesday. They said 421 of the fresh […]

Huge Internet Outage, Some Of World’s Biggest Sites Go Down

Huge Internet Outage, Some Of World’s Biggest Sites Go Down

Numerous websites were unavailable Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at the cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the U.K. government’s home page, could not be reached. While the nytimes.com website displayed a “connection failure” message that of CNN displayed, “Fastly error: unknown domain: www.cnn.com.” […]

People with temporary status can’t apply for citizenship, rules US court

People with temporary status can’t apply for citizenship, rules US court

WASHINGTON: A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday that thousands of people living in the US for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits people who entered the country illegally and now have Temporary Protected Status from seeking green cards […]

Guptill, Miller looking forward to resumption of PSL 6

Guptill, Miller looking forward to resumption of PSL 6

KARACHI: New Zealand opener Martin Guptill said on Monday he is doubly delighted at making his debut in the HBL Pakistan Super League 6for reigning champions Karachi Kings when the tournament restarts this week in Abu Dhabi. Addressing a virtual media conference, Guptill — reputedly one of the most explosive sights in white-ball cricket — […]