A paramilitary CRPF personnel from Gurez area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district has died of bullet wounds in Jharkhand, officials said here on Saturday. They said the initial reports suggest that the personnel, Mehrah Ahmad of Wapora Gurez shoot himself to death with his service rifle in a camp of 218 battalion of CRPF. However, […]
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir is trying to encourage women self help groups to run canteens in government offices under RLM. Basically the administration is keen towards emancipating women as a self reliant member of this society. In a first, the Kashmir State Taxes Department, Kashmir, has commenced such a canteen facility from its […]
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 07:The Government today informed that 10fresh positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19) have been reported today; 07 from Jammu division and 03 from Kashmir division, thus taking the total number of positive cases to 479207. Moreover, 18 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from various hospitals including 03 from Jammu […]
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 07: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta today held a meeting to condole the demise of Director General, Prisons, Hemant Kumar Lohia at Civil Secretariat here. All the Administrative Secretaries and senior officers participated in the meeting. Those stationed at Jammu and Delhi participated in the meeting through video conferencing. Remembering the deceased, […]
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 7: Principal Secretary, Housing & Urban Development, Dheeraj Gupta today chaired a meeting to review the progress of formulation of lay-out plan of the proposed Satellite Township to be developed at Rakh Gund Aksha Bemina. A number of important issues were discussed in the meeting relating to the master-plan of the project, infrastructure, […]
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 07: Air Vice Marshal Praveen Keshav Vohra, AVSM, VM, Air Officer Commanding Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh today met Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha here at Raj Bhawan. The AOC and the Lt Governor discussed various important issues pertaining to the air defence management system in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Lt […]
SRINAGAR: The weather department on Friday forecast mainly dry weather in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. A meteorological department official said that there was no large change expected in the weather for the subsequent two days. Regarding the mercury, he said, Srinagar recorded a low of 9.2°C against 9.6°C on the previous […]
A residential house was damaged due to gusty winds in Hardushiva Sopore area in frontier north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday on late evening. Reports reaching Kashmir News Apex-(KNA) said that the house belonged to one Ghulam Mouhiddin Sofi of Hardushiva. There have been reports of gusty winds blowing across several parts of north Kashmir. […]
Silk has been an ancient trade in Kashmir and there have been hundreds of families dependent economically on silk weaving in Kashmir valley. Central government has been providing funds to J&K administration under the scheme known as Silk Samagra Yojna. The Central Silk Board has allocated Rs 35 crore for J&K under Silk Samagra […]
DCs to be incentivized for attracting new investments, creating jobs SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 6: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta today took detailed review of the Industries & Commerce Department besides taking stock of the investments being made here in the UT of J&K. The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce; Directors of […]