Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday announced Rs 50 lakh as first installment of untied grant to all Deputy Commissioners across Jammu and Kashmir for meeting public demands of urgent nature and accentuating the overall developmental ecosystem in the J-K. Meanwhile, the Lt Governor Sinha visited Baramulla where he reviewed developmental scenario and approved […]
Jammu: A drug peddler was arrested with 600 grams of cannabis here on Wednesday, police said. The accused has been identified as Sohan Lal (28), a resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, they said. A police team intercepted a tanker in Panama Chowk area here for checking, officials said. During the checking, 34 rolls of […]
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday impressed upon the Jammu and Kashmir administration to ensure all facilities to people on the forthcoming Muharram Observance Days. Party’s Members of Parliament Muhammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi urged the administration to ensure all basic civic amenities to people in view of the forthcoming auspicious month of […]
Locals of Dhani, Choolan, and Gingal, Uri town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday held a peaceful protest march against the ‘blasphemous’ remarks against Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and demanded exemplary punishment to the accused. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), hundreds of locals started march towards National Highway Mohoura. The protesters while on way […]
Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa who started his Saudi Arabia visit on Monday to calm diplomatic strains has been declined a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Gen Bajwa had to settle for a meeting with the Deputy Defence Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Salman, also the younger brother of the Crown Prince, as […]
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Aijaz Ahmed Khan has appealed to Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to formulate comprehensive regularization policy for the contractual employees working in two wings of Rural Development Department (RDD). In a statement to the KNS,, Aijaz Ahmed Khan said that these contractual employees are the […]
A laborer by profession drowned in river Jehlum near Kernabel Kakapora area of south Kashmir Pulwama on Wednesday, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). The 20-year-old man identified as Yaseen Ahmad Sheikh, son of Bashir Ahmad Sheikh, was extracting sand when he drowned near Sombura bridge. “Searches are underway to trace […]
The government forces recovered four grenades and a hundred rounds of AK-47 from four persons arrested in Shopian district of South Kashmir, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). An unnamed police officer told the agency that the police and government forces arrested four persons including Imitiyaz Ahmad Dar of Ratnipora, Parvaiz Ahmad […]
Kashmir is reeling under economic depression as already, most of the business establishments have bad loans and some have shut their business. According to the media reports, it is now 13th running month that Kashmir valley is without any normal business as now the lockdown of Covid-19 is going on from the past five months. Business […]
On a day Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced that government jobs would be reserved for youths domiciled in the state, a look at the recruitment process in other states Uttar Pradesh There is no domicile-based reservation. Chief Secretary R K Tiwari confirmed that anyone can apply for government jobs and it is not binding that he or […]