The tough questions from the MPs came during a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Parliament yesterday when the lawmakers were being briefed by the Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla. The Union Home Ministry was asked by opposition members of Parliament to explain how Jammu and Kashmir could hope to attract investment in […]
‘Self-styled’ Contractors loot hapless sand diggers Pulwama, KNT: Geology and Mining Department has miserably failed to check self-styled contractors who loot sand diggers to their content. Ironically, the department has not given any rights to these contractors and yet they demand royalty from sand diggers. The sand diggers from Samboora, Kanahbal and Behibagh areas of […]
Srinagar, KNT: With summer just about to begin the people in summer capital Srinagar are already anguished with routine water scarcity. A source inside Public Health Engineering (PHE) department Rajbagh said that for the last more than two months, more than two lakh people are without water supply as government has failed to fix the […]
U.N. chief says he is personally concerned about the future of minorities in India. India’s new citizenship law may render a large number of Muslims stateless, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said. In an interview to The Dawn newspaper in Pakistan, he expressed concern about the Citizenship Amendment Act, and urged countries to act humanely while framing new […]
Srinagar : Senior Peoples Democratic Party leader and former vice-chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Khadi and Village Industries Board (KVIB) Peerzada Mansoor Hussain has slapped the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), taking the number of political leaders booked under the law to nine. A Jammu based newspaper Daily Excelsior quoted sources as having said that a dossier […]
Government of Jammu and Kashmir in the recent past has tried to focus on the condition of farmers in Kashmir valley. As in the past several years farmer income has gone down, the final straw on the back of the camel proved the early snowfall in first week of November 2019. It devastated the orchards […]
Srinagar : Former Jammu and Kashmir finance minister Altaf Bukhari on Thursday urged the Lieutenant Governor G.S Murmu to clear liabilities of contractors who earnestly redeveloped almost whole of the infrastructure of J&K especially after 2014 floods. In a statement issued here, the former minister observed that the works for which the claims of contractors […]
Srinagar : The Ministry of Home Affairs has directed the Secretary, Culture, J&K, to take appropriate action for the establishment of a regional cinema and a cultural policy for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, reported The Tribune. According to the report, in a petition dated February 23, 2019, filed by Ramesh Chib, he had sought […]
JAMMU – An Assistant Commandant of the Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle inside a camp in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. V B Yadav of the 90th Battalion was posted in Karal Krishna Border Post area along the International Border. He shot […]
Samba: At least five persons hailing from Jammu region were killed in a tragic road accident that took place in Jatwal area along Jammu-Pathankote national highway on Thursday morning, officials said. According to wire service–Kashmir News Observer (KNO), police officials said that the accident took place when a car was on its way from Kathua […]