Governor’s intervention gets Baramulla family their house electrified
Srinagar: Courtesy intervention of the Governor, Satya Pal Malik, an underprivileged family in a remote area of district Baramulla today got electricity to their house for the first time. “We are thankful to the Governor Sahab for his kind intervention to get our house electrified temporarily through a genset and LED bulbs,” said Anees Khawaja, […]
Imran Khan says timely ‘U-turns’ must for a real leader
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said a leader who does not take timely “U-turns” is not a “real leader”. During an interaction with journalists at the PM House, Khan cited an example from his cricket days when he led Pakistan’s national team said, “We used to make a strategy and then step out […]
SC to hear plea challenging constitutional validity of Article 370 in April
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday said it will hear in April a plea challenging the validity of Article 370 of the Constitution, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, following a request by the state and the Centre. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said it will hear […]
For Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museums, NN Vohra is still the Governor of J&K
Srinagar: For Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museums, NN Vohra is still the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. The official website of the department www.jkarchives.nic.in shows that NN Vohra is still the Governor of the State. Ironically, the website has been updated recently and changes have been made with regard to Director of the […]
GST Intelligence Wing raids Mineral Water Plants in Kashmir
Srinagar: GST Intelligence Wing has raided the offices of different package drinking water plants across Kashmir Valley and even seized records from them for evading tax under Goods and Service Tax. Reliable sources told news agency CNS that a team of GST Intelligence Wing headed by Deputy Director Kaushal raided the office premises of […]
Former J&K DGP Rajendra tried his best to dislodge me: Basant Rath
Srinagar: Former top traffic cop of Jammu and Kashmir Basant Rath has said that ex-Director General of Police K Rajendra tried his best to dislodge him as Senior Superintendent of Police Jammu. However, Rath said that it was SDS Jamwal, the then IGP Jammu, who stood by him. In a Facebook post, Rath wrote: “Ladies and […]
Bar announces support to JRL’s shutdown call, to suspend work in courts tomorrow
Srinagar: Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Friday supported the Joint Resistance Leadership’s call for a valley wide shutdown on November 17 as nine-phased election to Panchayats in the state commences. According to a statement the lawyers body said: In view o the general strike call given by the JRL, the bar association has decided […]
Australia takes India to WTO over sugar subsidies
Melbourne (PTI): Australia said on Friday that it was taking legal action against India, the world’s second-largest sugar producer, at the WTO over subsidies which it said caused a “significant downturn” in world sugar prices and hurt Australian producers. Australia alleges that the subsidies, which have seen Indian sugar production leap from an average 20 million […]
India, China should boost military exchanges: Chinese defence minister
Beijing (PTI): India and China should boost military exchanges and improve mutual trust and properly manage and control any “disparities”, Chinese State Councillor and Defence Minister Gen Wei Fenghe has said. Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra, who headed the Indian delegation at the ninth India-China Annual Defence and Security Dialogue here on November 13, called on Wei […]
Pak shall be ‘punished’ for activities detrimental to India: Army commander
Udhampur, Nov 16 (PTI) The Army’s Northern Command chief, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, said Friday Pakistan shall be “punished” if it carries out activities detrimental to India and asserted that befitting replies were given to the neighbouring nation for violating ceasefire. The Army commander’s comments come in the wake of fatalities in sniping incidents along the […]
