Directs JK Minerals to broaden its area of activity JAMMU, MARCH 12: Advisor to Lt. Governor, KK Sharma today called for speeding up pace of various developmental works undertaken by the Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC). Chairing 96th Board of Directors Meeting of JKPCC here today, the Advisor called for the improving the […]
SRINAGAR: World famous ski resort Gulmarg and other upper reaches received fresh snowfall while rain lashed plains in Kashmir valley on Thursday, resulting in chilly weather conditions. However, the night temperature improved and settled above normal across the valley, where there is prediction of wet weather during 24 days. A Met department spokesperson said light to […]
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that during his latest visit to Jammu and Kashmir, he held talks with the families of Indian students still in Iran, one of the worst affected countries by coronavirus outbreak, and assured that the government will facilitate their evacuation at the earliest possible. “I visited Srinagar recently […]
SRINAGAR: Former teacher’s leader Abdul Qayoom Wani, who unsuccessfully contested the last Lok Sabha polls has given up politics, reports said. Wani was released in the first week of February after almost six months of detention. Wani, however, became the first political worker who said that the August 5 decision was “unreasonable, unconstitutional and undemocratic”. he […]
Srinagar, March 12: Deputy Registrar Academic Affairs KU on Thursday said that classwork at the University of Kashmir including its main campus and all other satellite campuses shall remain suspended till March 31. “It is notified for the information of all concerned that the classwork at the University of Kashmir including its main campus and […]
Srinagar, March 12 (GNS): One more person on Thursday tested positive for coronavirus, taking the number of such patients to three in the recently carved out union territory. Commissioner Secretary Rigzin Samphel told GNS over phone that test report of the person, whose father was already infected with the novel virus, was received today and […]
Amid fear of spread of coronavirus, Parliament on Thursday cancelled the visitors passes in general so as to avoid any contact with outsiders. When asked about any proposal of adjourning the House, the Speaker said: “NO”. Speaker Om Birla was asked after he arrived in Parliament. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi did not comment […]
The coronavirus outbreak was Wednesday declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), whose chief expressed his “deep concern” over “alarming levels of inaction” in combating the virus spread. WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks However, he clarified that […]
New Delhi, March 11 The Centre on Wednesday said in Parliament that 396 persons have been detained in Kashmir under the Public Safety Act (PSA) out of the total 451 detained in Jammu and Kashmir, Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy stated in the Rajya Sabha in response to a question by […]
An army man was injured in an accidental fire in Hayuna Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday evening, officials said. The incident occurred when the Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was going on in the area following inputs about the presence of militants. An Army man of 42 RR sustained bullet wound […]