Srinagar: In May, there is an unusual rush of tourists both by road and by air to the Kashmir valley. Tourism department officials said that the rush is unusual and unprecedented. Secretary Tourism Sarmad Hafeez told this newspaper that in the current year, the tourism industry will witness a revival. According to him many tourists prefer […]
SRINAGAR MAY 14:- In order to pace up the implementation process of beneficiary oriented Centrally Sponsored schemes in the District to attain 100% saturation , the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad today chaired a meeting of District and Sectoral Officers here at Meeting Hall of the DC Office Complex. Besides, Additional Deputy Commissioner […]
Some prominent hotels served notices, fined for exorbitant rates, other service deficiencies SRINAGAR, MAY 14: Continuing with its efforts to check overpricing of tourism services by service providers, a team of officers of the Tourism Department today conducted checks of various hotels in the city to check the services and their pricing being offered to […]
A delegation of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) headed its president and parliament member Dr Farooq Abdullah will meet Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor, Manoj Sinha on Sunday. Source told Kashmir News Service (KNS) that the delegation will meet the LG Sinha at 11:30 am tomorrow, where they will raise the issue of safety and security […]
An 8-year-old girl died after drowning in a river near her house at Chanigam area of Ashmuqam in South Kashmir’s Anantnag on Saturday evening, an official said. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a girl identified as Aasia Fayaz (8) daughter of Fayaz Ahmad Shah, a resident of Chanigam Ashmuqam slipped and […]
SRINAGAR, MAY 14: To make Jammu and Kashmir power surplus in the next four years, Power Development Department is working earnestly towards doubling electricity generation capacity in the Union Territory in three years. The J&K government has initiated a large scale capacity augmentation programme to address the current power deficit in the UT. Earlier, Jammu […]
Srinagar, May 14: Citing “unprecedented flow of tourists” and threat to ecologically fragile environs of the place, Chief Executive Officer of Gulmarg Development Authority has written a letter to Director School Education Kashmir, urging him to ask educational institutions in the Valley not to plan excursion/picnic to the famous resort on weekend. From last couple […]
By: Javaid Malik MK Srinagar Comparing the current prevailing temperatures with the same days of the previous year, there is continuous rise in the temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir. Even the night temperatures are showing a slight rise at many places even as in the ski resort of Gulmarg the night temperature was recorded […]
Budgam : A man was killed on Friday late evening after hit by a vehicle in Chadoora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. However, family members of the deceased held protest and alleged that he was murdered. Family members told that, yesterday about 8. 30 pm he was at home when someone called him to […]
In the recent past J&K government has signed many MoUs with Dubai based firms in order to give the boost to industrial growth. A MoU has been signed between the Government of J&K and National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) for skilling 10,000 persons per year in seven trades in real estate under NULM (National […]