After week long closure, NH44 opens for one way traffic
Jammu: One-way traffic was restored on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway Monday as authorities allowed stranded Kashmir-bound trucks carrying essential commodities along with passenger vehicles from here, officials said. The highway was opened for light motor vehicles from Jammu to Srinagar on Sunday after six-day closure following heavy snowfall and incessant rains which had triggered multiple […]
Army vehicle crushes forest officer to death
Driver arrested, vehicle seized
Srinagar: An Army vehicle on Monday afternoon crushed a forest officer to death in Chogul area of Handwara in Kupwara district while as police said that the Army driver has been taken into the custody. An Assistant Director Forest Protection Force identified as AijazRasoolWani was killed when an Army Casper hit his Alto vehicle in […]
Barring the media: Police official’s ‘over ambitious’ attitude led to 26 Jan press fiasco
SRINAGAR: An “overenthusiastic” officer in the security wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police took the decision to bar some journalists with adverse reports against them from attending the Republic Day function here, leading to a chaos, officials said on Monday. After preliminary enquiry, it was found that the officer of the additional superintendent of police-rank […]
Denial of entry is attack on press freedom: Editors Guild
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India on Monday said the denial of entry to several senior journalists into a stadium in Srinagar to cover the Republic Day function was an “unprecedented state-sponsored attack” on press freedom and demanded an inquiry into the incident. Journalists in Srinagar had staged a protest against the Jammu and […]
JK Govt employees get ‘trust-based health insurance scheme’
Jammu: The State Administrative Council (SAC) headed by Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Monday approved a health insurance scheme for the government employees and pensioners based on ‘Trust Model’. The SAC, which met here under the chairmanship of the governor, decided that ‘Trust Model’ may be implemented for the employees health insurance across […]
Engage all stakeholders to end militancy in JK: NC tells New Delhi
Jammu: The National Conference Monday said New Delhi should take steps to end the three-decade-old militancy in Jammu and Kashmir by taking effective steps of engaging all stakeholders. “We hope that New Delhi will take steps to end the three-decade-old unrest and militancy in J&K by taking effective steps of engaging all stakeholders, including our […]
‘ODOMOS’ is overdose of ‘only Modi only Shah’: Omar Abdullah
Shimla: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Monday coined a new acronym to target the BJP. Omar said that the country was suffering from too much “ODOMOS- overdose of only Modi only Shah”. “While the rest of the country suffers from too much ODOMOS – overdose (of) only Modi only Shah,” the former chief minister of […]
Pak to completely fence 2,600-km-long Afghan border by next year
Islamabad: The Pakistan Army has said that the fencing of a substantial portion of the over 2,600-km-long Afghan border has been completed and the rest will be finished by next year to check the movement of terrorists. Pakistan has spent billions of rupees for putting fence on the porous border. Army spokesman Major General AsifGhafoor […]
Resisting change: Even a new roadmap fails to generate betterment in school education
Srinagar: The much hyped new road map devised for the J&K state’s school education department has miserably failed to bring a change in the ailing education sector of the state. The new roadmap for school education department was devised by the union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD in 2017 to revamp the education sector […]
