This apple is definitely sour: NAFED fails to repay farmers who sold them their produce

Shopian: Dozens of apple growers in southern Kashmir are feeling deprived as they are waiting for the payment of their produce they sold under market intervention scheme introduced by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED) last year. The growers alleged that they have received just 55 percent payment for the produce they […]

Amity: Muslim man takes care of 100 year old temple in Shopian

Shopian: In a rare exhibition of brotherhood and harmony, a 45 year old Muslim man is South Kashmir’s Shopian district looks after a 100 year old ‘Teerath Raj Kapal Mochan’ temple. Ghulam Qadir Sheikh of Digam Nagbal spends most of his time in cleaning this temple located in Devpora Nagbal Shopian on the banks of […]

130 students elbow for space in a three room school

Anantnag: A government middle school in Trajan Alsadar village of Verinag zone in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district has around 130 students but the school has only three rooms out of which one serves as an office for the school while as two rooms are used as classrooms for the students. “One might find it hard […]

‘Misuse of sedition law’: SC refuses to entertain plea seeking proper mechanism to be followed by govt’s

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking framing of a proper mechanism to deal with alleged misuse of the sedition law by the government machinery. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar dismissed the plea filed by a social activist and said it was open for the petitioner […]

Re-organisation act 2019: Vigilance Commission yet to take ‘rebirth’

Nasir Azam Srinagar: The fate of prestigious anti-graft body- Jammu & Kashmir Vigilance Commission- is hanging in balance, even as the law under which it was established was protected by the Parliament on August 5 when it gave nod to bifurcation of J&K into two Union Territories. Highly placed sources said that government is yet […]

Crammed in three rooms over 100 students gasp for air in south Kashmir school

Jahangeer Ganaie Anantnag: Depicting the state of education sector in the state, a middle school in Kharpeth Larnoo area South Kashmir’s Anantnag district having enrollment of over 100 students is functioning from just four rooms. The situation is most of the times forcing teachers to take class of students of three different classes as the […]

Kansal reviews progress on Outreach Programmes conducted across J&K

‘NITI Aayog selects J&K for Pilot Project on Sustained Developmental Goals of UNDP’

JAMMU:  Principal Secretary Planning, Development & Monitoring and Information, Rohit Kansal held a meeting to review the progress made under different Outreach Programmes conducted across Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting was attended by Commissioner Secretary Social Welfare Department, Hirdesh Kumar; Secretary Rural Development Department and Panchayati Raj, Sheetal Nanda; Director Information and […]

Off to school: Children to join classes after more than six months of holidays

Srinagar: Students across Kashmir will join their classes in their respective schools on Monday after a gap of over six months as government announced re-opening of all schools across the Valley on February 24. Since August 5 last year, all the schools barring a few, remained shut due to the uncertainty and volatile situation. Notably, […]

NRC in JK will target Rohingyas, other infiltrators: BJP

‘Delimitation committee to be constituted by end of December 2019’

Owais Gul Srinagar: The Rohingyas and other infiltrators present in the Jammu and Kashmir will be expelled soon, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Jammu and Kashmir unit said on Tuesday. The statement comes a day after the Union Home Minister Amit Shah set a 2024 deadline for implementing the hugely divisive NRC across the country, stating […]