Former chief minister Farooq Abdullah has said his National Conference (NC) opted out of the Delimitation Commission in May as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was allegedly seeking to create Hindu dominance in the Muslim majority region and to divide the Union Territory on religious lines through the process. The Centre in March set up the […]
While each step of the February 2019 Pulwama attack was carried out on the directions of the Jaish-e-Muhammad bosses in Pakistan, the target itself — a convoy of vehicles carrying CRPF personnel — was chosen by a 22-year-old shopkeeper from Kakapora in the same South Kashmir district, investigators have found. This man’s contribution to the […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Police and paramilitary forces on Sunday fired teargas canisters and used pellet shotguns at several places in Srinagar to stop Shia mourners from participating in Muharram processions. Eyewitnesses told Outlook that dozens of mourners were injured, of whom several received pellet injuries, when police used pellet shotguns on Shia mourners in […]
National Conference (NC) leaders and former chief ministers Farooq and Omar Abdullah are “bitter” about, and feel “betrayed” by, the constitutional changes related to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) pushed through by the Centre last year, and will contest them both politically and legally, while asserting that their struggle will be entirely peaceful. The two leaders, […]
The Delimitation Commission, set up to redraw the constituencies of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, will visit the north-eastern states and the Union Territory after preparing a “broad framework” of the delimitation exercise, officials said. The commission will also seek views and inputs of its “associate members” — a group of […]
Commissioner Secretary, Higher Education Department (HED), Talat Parvez Rohella, during his 2 day visit to North Kashmir, today visited Kupwara district and reviewed functioning of various colleges and educational Infrastructure works. He was accompanied by Director Finance HED, Abdul Majeed; Nodal Principal Kashmir, Yasmeen Ashaie; Assistant Director Planning, Fayaz Ahmad; Engineering Team of RUSA and […]
JAMMU, AUGUST 30: The Government on Sunday informed that 786 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 354 from Jammu division and 432 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 37163. Also 09 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 03 from Jammu […]
PULWAMA, AUGUST 30: Following repeated complaints of discrepancies, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Pulwama, Dr. Raghav Langer today conducted inspection of patwar halqas and revenue documents held by Patwaris throughout the district. During the inspection, the bastas of the Patwaris and its contents were scrutinized in detail and huge discrepancies were noticed besides, Government orders, instructions issued […]
JAMMU, AUGUST 30: Till today morning 7,29,500 Registrations have been done by the candidates on JKSSB’s Online Portal, since the commencement of online application submission from 10th July, 2020 and 1,66,100 applications have been submitted online for the post of Accounts Assistant. It has been noted that about 1,01,000 unique visitors visited the online application […]
Directs for making all Welfare Schemes run by J&K Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, available online before 30th September, 2020 Guidelines of various welfare schemes to be advertised in each of the 3000 Community Service Centers across J&K for maximum awareness of beneficiaries Directs for expediting modalities for effecting pending Amendments to the […]