Aspire to achieve your goals and serve your people, Gen Rawat tells Kashmiri girl students
New Delhi: Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat Wednesday exhorted girl students from Jammu and Kashmir to work hard and compete for Army’s ‘Super 30’ coaching programme and build their career through good education. He was interacting with 18 girl students from various schools in the Valley, at the South Block here. “There is no other […]
Women poets’ to participate in ‘mushaira Jashn-e-Rekhta’ 2018
New Delhi: Jashn-e-Rekhta 2018 will feature a unique women poets’ mushaira session at the fifth edition of the Urdu festival, which is set to begin from December 14. The audience will also get to witness another highlight – Ramlila performance in Urdu by the Shri Shraddha Ramlila group titled ‘Ram Kahaani Urdu Wali’, a press […]
ATM containing cash of over Rs 3.6 lakh looted in Kathua
Jammu: An ATM, loaded with over Rs 3.60 lakh cash, was stolen Wednesday in Kathua district, police said. A case has been registered, police said, adding they have launched a manhunt to find the machine and nab the culprits. The burglars took the Chhan Rorian village route along the Jammu-Pathankot highway in early hours of […]
Teargas chokes lady to death in Hajin
Hajjin: An elderly woman died allegedly due to suffocation caused by teargas smoke shelling during the clashes in Hajjin village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district this evening. Reports said that during a Cordon and Search Operation, massive clashes were reported in Hajjin village. The government forces lobbed tear gas shells to disperse angry protesters in the […]
Woman dies of teargas suffocation in Hajin, Police denies
Srinagar: An elderly women died allegedly due to suffocation caused by tear and pepper gas used by government forces in Hajin town of Bandipora district in North Kashmir here on Wednesday. The Police however denied the allegations. There were large scale teargas shelling and pepper gas used by police to quell protesters in the Hajin. […]
SKIMS playing vital role in JK’s healthcare sector: Advisor Kumar
SRINAGAR: Advisor to Governor K Vijay Kumar today said the annual day of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura was a day of commemoration, celebration, thanksgiving and patting each other for the creation of such an institute which has played a tremendous role in filling critical healthcare gaps in the State. K Vijay Kumar […]
Super-50 Coaching: 4661 aspirants appear in screening test across Kashmir
SRINAGAR:Around 4661 aspirants appeared in the screening test for government-run free Super-50 Coaching for Civil Services (KAS/IAS) and Professional Courses(NEET/JEE etc) at various centres across the Kashmir valley today. The coaching is being organized by the Department of School Education. Out of total aspirants who appeared in the test, 3335 appeared for NEET/JEE and 1326 […]
Govt to develop network of STPs to save water bodies
JAMMU: As a long-term strategy to for conservation of prominent water bodies in the State, including Dal Lake, Jhelum, Chenab and Tawi rivers from pollution hazards, and for the restoration of pristine glory of twin capital cities viz; Jammu and Srinagar, the Government will develop Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) of adequate capacities. Such STPs will […]
Panchayat Polls-2018: 7959 candidates in fray for Phase-VIII, IX
JAMMU: For the final two phases of the extended 9-Phase Panchayat Polls,7959 candidates are in the fray. Voting and counting for the last two phases will be held on 8th and 11th December. According to the Chief Electoral Officer, J&K, Shaleen Kabra, for penultimate Phase-VIII, 1333 candidates are in the fray for 483 Sarpanch Halqas and 5695 […]
Over 200 Indian Hindus arrive in Pak to attend religious festivities
Lahore, (PTI): Over 200 Indian Hindus arrived here Wednesday to attend festivities in connection with the 310th birth anniversary of Shiv Avtari Satguru Sant Shada Ram Sahib at Mirpur Mathelo in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Evacuee Trust Property Board chairman Tariq Wazir greeted the pilgrims at the Wagah Border. “The Pakistani embassy had issued visas to […]
