Maintain consistency in learning, set goals: Priya Sethi tells students
Jammu: Extending her best wishes to students for taking their annual board examinations being conducted by State Board of School Education (BOSE), the Minister of State for Education, Technical Education, Culture and Tourism, Priya Sethi said that each and every student must do his or her best without caring for the end result. The Minister […]
Shopian killings: Locals stage protest, seek shifting of army camp from Puhnoo village
Srinagar: Barely two days after four youth were killed in an encounter at Puhnoo village in Sopian district, scores of people Tuesday demanded removal of an army camp in the area. The camp houses the unit of 44 RR which was involved in the shootout that left six people dead. According to the reports, protests […]
CM calls for strict adherence to SOP’s
SRINAGAR: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday directed the security agencies to adhere to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) as laid out. While taking a review of the security and law & order situation at a high level meeting of officers here today, the Chief Minister said that SOP’s should be strictly adhered to and […]
SC order on Shopian killings baffling, says AI
Srinagar: After Supreme Court of India stayed the probe in Shopian killings, human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has said that the order by the apex court is baffling. “Supreme Court’s order in Shopian firing is baffling. How can justice be done if the police aren’t even allowed to investigate alleged rights violations?” AI said […]
Delhi warned CM on Shopian killings, says NC
Srinagar: Opposition National Conference (NC) on Tuesday alleged that New Delhi has warned Chief Minister for tweeting about the Shopian incident. Quoting media reports, a spokesman of the party said that the Ministry of Home Affairs has admonished the Chief Minister for tweeting about the Shopian incident and other such cases and asked her to […]
JDA seals temple in Jammu, triggers massive protests
Jammu: The Jammu Development Authority (JDA) sealed an old Hanuman temple in Jammu city, triggering protests and road blockade by people. The protesters alleged that they were pushed out of the temple during aarti while the JDA said the structure was sealed because it was built illegally. “The temple was built on foot-path in violation […]
Another boy quits militant ranks, returns to family: DGP
Srinagar: A boy has quit militancy and returned to his family in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police official said today, barely three days after another such incident. “One more young boy of (the) valley who had chosen (the) path of violence a couple of days back has joined back his family. I wish the […]
Ethnic cleansing of Myanmar’s Rohingya continues: UN
Yangon: Myanmar is continuing its “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya with a “campaign of terror and forced starvation” in Rakhine state, a UN human rights envoy said today, six months after a military crackdown sparked a mass exodus of the Muslim minority. Some 700,000 Rohingya have fled over the border to Bangladesh since violence erupted […]
Bhuddist-Muslim clashes force declaration of emergency in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Sri Lanka Tuesday declared a state of emergency for 10 days after violent clashes broke out between Buddhists and minority Muslims in the country’s central Kandy district that left two persons dead. Violence erupted yesterday following which police imposed curfew in the Theldeniya area. President Maithripala Sirisena and the Cabinet today decided to declare […]
Doda to have first Cluster University soon
Srinagar: The J&K government is likely to establish a cluster university in Doda district. This will be a major step to boost education in the Chenab valley. For this, the member parliament and minister of State in PMO, Jatinder Singh has also shot a letter to the education minister and demanded establishment of a new […]
