JAMMU, Jan 24: Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra as it resumed from the garrison town of Nagrota on a cold Tuesday morning. Matondkar, a popular Bollywood stars of the 1990s, joined Gandhi shortly after the march started from near the army garrison around 8 am amid tight security, with […]
The Welfare Committee of the Saloora area in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal town has alleged that “some elements” in the village have grabbed more than a hundred kanals of state land and violated the court orders. According to the welfare committee, “some elements” illegally occupied a huge chunk of state land in 2011 and this illegal […]
The focus of the J&K administration is on village development and they are keen to develop them as model units. For the overall development of villages Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir recently said that in order to strengthen village institutions of Numberdar/Chowkidarfor better coordination on ground, the administration should work to achieve this […]
Amid forecast of “widespread snowfall”, the minimum temperature on Tuesday recorded a drop in Jammu and Kashmir barring twin capitals and Qazigund, officials said. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of minus 2.3°C against last night’s minus 3.4°C. Today’s minimum temperature, he said, is normal for the summer capital. […]
Srinagar: Former minister and president Apni Party, Syed Altaf Bukhari on Monday said that they won’t allow an inch of Jammu & Kashmir’s land to be provided to outsiders. Addressing a news conference, Bukhari, said the drive to retrieve state and Kahcharai land from the land grabbers must exclude poor people. “Those who have grabbed […]
JAMMU, JANUARY 23: Chief Engineer (Distribution), JPDCL Jammu has informed that the power supply to Jhajjar Kotli, Dansal, Jindrah, Battal Manwal, Surinsar, Kishanpur, Mansar and adjoining areas shall remain affected on January 24 from 9 am to 2 pm.
Discusses availability of seed, semen, planting material under Apex Committee Projects JAMMU, JANUARY 23: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo, today chaired a meeting to review the status of micro irrigation and irrigation for Kharif season-2023 here at Civil Secretariat. Principal Secretary Jal Shakti, Shaleen Kabra, Secretary in APD, DG Planning […]
Health Secretary launches portal for Samba, Pulwama districts JAMMU, JANUARY 23: After success of eVIN (pillar-1) and CoWIN (pillar-2), Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has rolled out the 3rd pillar ‘U-WIN’ for immunization services which will have Universal Immunization Program module under CoWIN platform. Secretary Health and Medical Education, Bhupinder Kumar, today launched […]
Police on Monday said that two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were recovered by it along with army and paramilitary CRPF in Dassal and its adjoining area of Rajouri district. “On 22-01-2023 at 1800 hours a joint search operation was launched by Police, SOG Rajouri, Army 225 field Regiment and CRPF 72Bn at Dassal and its […]
Jammu and Kashmir administration on Sunday gave its assent to amend certain provisions of the land reforms act which would enable certain landholders to sell off their land parcels which were prohibited earlier, quoting an official spokesman PTI reported. The assent for authorising the revenue department to move an amendment in Section 21 and Section […]