Mess in G B Panth hospital: Cantonment Board fails to act on court orders to evict pharmacies
Srinagar: While not paying any heed to the Court order regarding the eviction of the pharmacy shops functioning within the premises of the GB Panth Hospital, Sonwar, the Cantonment Board has not begun any eviction process after clear-cut directives of the Court regarding the same. The two medical shops functioning within the premises, falling under […]
PM Modi to visit JK on Feb 3
Jammu: Prime Minister NarendraModi is to visit Jammu and Kashmir on February 3 to lay foundation stones of various projects including one for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here, a BJP spokesman said Wednesday. The prime minister will also address a public rally during his visit, the spokesman said. He said senior BJP […]
JK has over three lakh new voters
Jammu: Over three lakh new voters were added during the ongoing special summary revision (SSR) in Jammu and Kashmir, election authorities said Wednesday. “During the ongoing SSR of photo electoral rolls, with respect to January 1 as the qualifying date, 3,07,984 new voters were added, which is highest as compared to the last four years […]
2,300 women to go on Hajj this year without ‘Mehram’: Govt
New Delhi: Over 2,300 Muslim women from India will go on Haj this year without ‘Mehram’ or male companion as all those who applied under this category have been exempted from the lottery system, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Wednesday. The Modi government had last year allowed women going to Haj without Mehram, […]
Guv Malik to focus on reaching out to youth
Jammu: Often dubbed as “people’s governor” due to his easy accessibility to people, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has made “intense outreach” his new year’s resolution. “Of course, it will be a year for reaching out to the people of J&K, particularly youth (of Kashmir). I opened the Raj Bhawan for the people […]
Taliban threaten to end peace talks with US
Say won’t meet the Kabul government representatives
Kabul: The Taliban issued a statement Tuesday threatening to end contact with the US even as Washington’s peace envoy makes another round of the region in pursuit of a negotiated end to Afghanistan’s protracted conflict before a frustrated President Donald Trump makes good on his 2016 campaign promise to end America’s involvement. Earlier in the […]
Top Taliban commander, three others killed in Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Security forces in Pakistan have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year’s powerful bomb blast in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed, reports said. Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam […]
School heads ‘hiding’ data on actual enrolment in class 10th
Srinagar: The school education department has tightened its noose against the school heads for their failure to submit the data of class 9th and 10th students enrolled in their schools during the year 2017 and 2018. The school heads have delayed the submission of data which has hindered the department action to ascertain the dropout […]
