UPSC NDA, NA 2020: As many as 485 candidates from different parts of the Kashmir Valley appeared in NDA and Naval examinations held here on Sunday amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an official spokesman said. He said the examination was conducted by the UPSC and held at Amar Singh College and SP Higher Secondary School examination centres […]
An “aggressive” China has deployed additional troops and tanks at multiple friction points in Ladakh since the latest confrontation on the Pangong Lake’s south bank in late August, sources in the security establishment said. With both countries sticking to their positions during Friday night’s one-to-one meeting between their defence ministers, disengagement appears “difficult” for now, […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday deferred the election for the post of Mayor Srinagar Municipal Corporation till mid of this December in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. The corporation was to get a new mayor within a month after Junaid Mattu was ousted from the post on June 16 in a […]
There is a changing political landscape in Kashmir with ground activists moving from one party to another, while the political activities have started picking up in the mainstream political camp, but PDP was disallowed to hold any meeting of its leaders in Srinagar office. Top police officers of JK administration told the media that they […]
An improvised explosive device (IED) was found on the roadside near Arampora in Kupwara on Monday. Unidentified official sources told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS) that the IED was detected by police and army. They said bomb disposal squad teams of the Army and police reached the spot and destroyed it safely, […]
A former legislator from Rajouri district and National Conference leader, Thakur Rashpal Singh died due to Coronavirus and some other medical issues on Monday morning. Singh, a resident of Sialsui Kalakote, has won elections several times from Kalakote assembly segment and was leader of National Conference since decades. He has also served as Vice Chairman […]
In an important development, work on the ambitious Integrated Command & Control Centre or ICCC project has been started in Srinagar. The ICCC which also include a Data Centre will integrate all civic and essential services into a single platform aimed at monitoring and addressing public issues on real-time basis. It is being established under […]
A family from Boniyar village of Baramulla in northern Kashmir on Sunday evening held a protest against GMC Baramulla authorities and alleged a pregnant lady died due to negligence of doctors. Reports reaching to Kashmir News service said that the family of the deceased lady also broke the windows and other things in the hospital […]
Private Schools’ Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) today issued a circular directing all the private schools under its banner, not to charge any kind of admission/capitation fee for new admissions. The schools however can charge annual charges only. According to statement issued to KNS reads, The Association said that the general admission season in […]
On the sixth anniversary of the catastrophic floods in the Valley in 2014, the Kashmir Trade Alliance (KTA) on Sunday said that the decline in trade activities in Kashmir and the deterioration in the economy which started at that time has not stopped in 2020. According to statement issued to KNS, President KTA Ajaz Shahdhar […]