After announcing a month-long summer vacation in the government-degree colleges (GDCs) in Jammu (Summer Zone) from June 5 to July 5, the J&K Higher Education Department has begun the process for engagement of lecturers and teaching assistants on the need-based academic arrangement in the colleges for academic session 2020-21. Online applications have been invited from […]
During a recent anti-militancy operation by security forces, 15 houses were destroyed at the Nowakadal neighbourhood in Srinagar. Nineteen families were rendered homeless amid a pandemic. The destruction of homes triggered both outrage and empathy. Locals appealed for rehabilitation of the affected families. A reputed Srinagar-based NGO and a civil society group were requested to […]
Jammu: Some houses were damaged and a few vehicles washed away in flash-floods triggered by a cloud burst in Poonch border district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday night, official said. A cloud burst hit upper reaches of Dingla area, resulting in flash floods and damage to a few houses and roads, they said. The main […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday awarded central contract to nine women players, divided into three categories, with 33 per cent increase in A category for 2020-21 season while Bismah Maroof was retained as the captain of Pakistan women’s cricket team. According to a press release issued by the PCB, the match fee […]
NEW YORK: Outrage soared in America on Friday over new images of police brutality caught on camera as demonstrators sought to take mass protests over the killing of an unarmed black man into a second weekend. With rolling demonstrations over the death last week of George Floyd showing little sign of letting up, arguments raged […]
Srinagar: On the morning of 5 June 2020, Abdul Rahim Bhat was informed by his neighbours that trees in his orchard had been chopped down amid the lockdown owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Bhat immediately rushed to his orchard in the Bijbehara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district to assess the damages. Just days […]
Srinagar, June 6 (KNS): Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Saturday urged the union finance ministry to end the differential treatment with business fraternity of J&K and demanded a separate stimulus package covering the lockdown period since August 2019 in order to revive the business activity in this trouble […]
Srinagar, June 06 (KNS): Awami Action Committee (AAC) paid rich tributes to its member and socio political activist shaheed -e-Masjid Molvi Mushtaq Ahmed on his 16th martyrdom anniversary. The organisation in a statement issued to KNS said that the commemorative function by the organisation to pay tribute him could not take place to in wake […]
Srinagar, June 06, (KNS): Government on Saturday said that closure of schools across J&K may extend as most of educational institutions in parts of Jammu have been converted into quarantine centers. Principal Secretary Education Department Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon (IAS) stated that the suspension of educational activities across J&K may extend as most of the […]
Islamabad- The Pakistan Army on Saturday claimed to have shot down an “Indian spying quadcopter” allegedly intruding across the Line of Control (LoC). Military spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar said that the mini copter violated the country’s airspace in Khanjar sector of the LoC. “The quadcopter had intruded 500 metres on Pakistan’s side of the LoC, […]