Jammu and Kashmir reported 626 new covid-19 cases in last 24 hours and 197 among them were from Jammu Division and 429 from Kashmir valley, officials said on Friday. The cases include 34 travelers and take the overall tally of the cases in the J&K to 101594, the officials told GNS. Giving the district wise […]
On October 31, the Jammu and Kashmir government declared the State Land (Vesting Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, null and void. The law, which had proposed to transfer ownership of state land to its occupants for a fee determined by the government, was popularly known as the Roshni Act, as the proceeds from these […]
JAMMU, NOVEMBER 13: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 8,69,186 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, […]
JAMMU, NOVEMBER 13: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today met Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu, former MLC, public delegations including SOS International and Jammu Muslim Front here at Raj Bhavan. Prof. Manoj Kumar Dhar, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu briefed the Lt Governor about various teaching programmes and research activities going on in the University, besides […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) on Friday joined the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of several parties in the union territory seeking restoration of the erstwhile state’s special status. Two Congress leaders participated in a meeting of the alliance at PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s ‘Fairview’ residence at […]
Six persons including four civilians were killed in north Kashmir’s Uri after armies of India and Pakistan exchange massive shelling, officials said on Friday. Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service (KNS) said that two Army men and four civilians including a lady were killed during the heavy exchange of fire in Uri area of Baramulllah […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 87.28 lakh on Friday with a single-day increase of 44,879 cases, while the recoveries surged to 81,15,580, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.97 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. The death toll reached 1,28,668 after 547 more fatalities were reported in the country in a […]
Congress both at high command level and also at the local level in Jammu and Kashmir have been doing political somersaults in the past weeks in order to do some balancing acts not to hurt the party in Jammu region and also keeping in view Bihar elections. Bihar elections have proved that Congress is the […]
Barring districts Ganderbal and Undhampur, the authorities on Thursday extended high-speed 3G and 4G internet ban across Jammu and Kashmir for another fortnight. While high-speed internet remains banned in the J-K from 5 August 2019, the government has cited attempts to disrupt upcoming polls for which it said that the subversive elements ‘heavily rely” upon […]
The ministry of Electronics and IT has issued a notice to Twitter seeking explanation in five days as to why legal action shouldn’t be taken against the social media platform for disrespecting India’s territorial integrity as Twitter has shown Leh as part of J&K, not Ladakh. The notice has been sent to global Vice President […]