An Online Workshop on “Law Governing Forests, Wildlife and Environment” organised by J&K Judicial Academy and J&K Forest Department, was e-inaugurated today by Justice Ms Gita Mittal, the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, in presence of Justice Sanjay Dhar; Pr. Chief Conservator of Forests, J&K, Dr. Mohit Gera; Chief Conservator of Forests, […]
The newly established Silk Filatures and Silk Weaving factory at Bari Brahmana and World Bank funded modernized Government Silk factory at Rajbagh, Srinagar are set to benefit 20 thousand families associated with the cocoon rearing each in the twin divisions of Kashmir and Jammu. The information was given here at a meeting chaired by the […]
To ensure better traffic management and further enhance parking space in the summer capital, the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole today conducted an extensive tour of Srinagar City. During the tour, the Div Com visited Boulevard, Shalimar, Durganag, Sonwar, G.B.Panth Hospital, PanthaChowk, Lasjan bypass, Natipora and other areas to take stock of the measures […]
Divisional Commissioner, Sanjeev Verma, today convened a meeting of concerned officers to review progress on land acquisition cases for Grid Stations in various districts of Jammu division. The meeting was attended by Chief Engineer, JPDCL Projects, Manhar Gupta, Chief Engineer, JPDCL Transmission, Sudhir Gupta, Chief Engineer, JPDCL Distribution, Gurmeet Singh, Assistant Commissioner Revenue Jammu, Vijay […]
Amid security forces claiming decline in local militant recruitment, a 22-year old ace footballer from north Kashmir’s Sopore town of Baramulla district has gone missing. Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service (KNS) said that a 22-year old Amir Sartaj is missing from June 24 from his maternal uncle’s home in Adipora hamlet of Sopore town […]
Peoples Conference on Thursday demanded an impartial and time bound judicial enquiry into the circumstances that led to the unfortunate killing of Bashir Ahmed Khan in the Sopore encounter yesterday. “The bereaved family has dismissed the police version of the events that led to the killing of Bashir Ahmed Khan. They have raised some […]
Srinagar: Kashmir Valley reported fifth death in a day due to COVID-19 on Thursday as a 65-year-old man from Kulgam died of the virus at Sher Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura this afternoon. The death takes the number of people succumbing to the virus in J&K to 112. Two deaths each occurred at […]
Transporters operating in Jammu and Kashmir have urged the authorities to allow them to resume their services so that they can pay their debts and also make it possible for their families to survive. Authorities have been trying to be lax with transporters in the past one year as the private transport did not operate […]
Casual and daily wage employees of several departments on Thursday staged a protest in Handwara and appealed authorities to release their pending wages besides regularizing their services. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), casual laborers and daily wagers working in Irrigation & Flood Control, Forest and Jal Shakti departments assembled at Handwara main chowk and […]
Srinagar: A three-year-old Kashmiri boy has been placed at the centre of a political war of words on social media after his grandfather was reportedly killed in cross-fire between militants and the police, while the child was present. His family has said that the grandfather, Bashir Ahmed, was killed by the police – an allegation dismissed […]