Handwara Encounter: Two more forces personnel killed, toll 4
Srinagar, March 1: A CRPF Inspector was among four government forces personnel killed while eight others including a commandant of the paramilitary forces were injured in the gunfight at Babagund Langate area of Handwara in frontier Kupwara district on Friday. Official sources said that when a joint search team of police, CRPF and army went […]
771 posts advertised for 5 new medical colleges
Jammu: J&K Services Selection Board today issued advertisements for 771 posts in different categories including 550 posts of Junior Staff Nurses for 5 new Medical Colleges of the State. Pertinently, the Board has already issued advertisements for filling up 1235 other posts for these new medical colleges established at Rajouri, Doda, Kathua, Anantnag and Baramulla. […]
GAD orders administrative transfers, postings
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday ordered new postings and transfers in the administration. An order said: In the interest of administration, the following transfers and postings are hereby ordered with immediate effect: Zubair Ahmad, KAS, Chairman, J&K Services Selection Board, is transferred and posted as Secretary to the Government, Culture Department. Rahul Sharma, […]
Pakistan partially resumes flight operations
Lahore,(PTI): Thousands of air travellers stranded worldwide heaved a sigh of relief as Pakistan on Friday partially resumed flight operations in the country, two days after the country’s airspace was closed in view of escalating tensions with India. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced that flight operations at Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta airports […]
Handwara Encounter: CRPF inspector, policeman killed, five forces personnel injured as militant presumed dead earlier fires indiscriminately
Srinagar: A CRPF Inspector and a policeman were killed and five other forces personnel were injured in the gunfight at Babagund Langate area of Handwara in the frontier Kupwara district on Friday. Official sources told GNS that when a joint search team of police, CRPF and army went to retrieve the militant bodies amid […]
Lok Sabha polls will be held on time: CEC
Lucknow (PTI) The general elections in the country will be held on time, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said Friday, amid tensions between India and Pakistan. The CEC is in the Uttar Pradesh capital for the past two days to review poll preparations in the state. “The election in the country will be held […]
China says it never recognised India, Pakistan as nuclear states
Beijing,(PTI) China Friday said it has never recognised India and Pakistan as nuclear powers and ruled out extending such a status to North Korea following the unsuccessful second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam. China has never recognised India and Pakistan as nuclear countries. Our position on this […]
Now, Jamaat school sealed in Bandipora
Srinagar: Authorities Friday sealed a private school run by Jamaat-e-Islami in Ajas area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. The move comes following government of India’s decesion to ban the prominent socio-religious organisation, days after arresting scores of its leaders and activists in a massive crackdown. Sources told GNS that district administration Bandipora headed by Tehsildar […]
Ex Cabinet minister Qazi Mohammad Afzal passes away
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party leader and Ex Cabinet Minister Qazi Mohammed Afzal passed away on Friday. According to PDP senior leader Qazi breathed his last at SKIMS Soura Srinagar
NC, PDP mulling moving court against Centre’s decision to extend 2 constitutional amendments to J-K
Srinagar,(PTI) The National Conference and the PDP said Friday that they were mulling moving court against the Centre’s decision to extend the 77th and 103rd Amendments of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir in the absence of an elected government in the state. The reactions come after the Union government on Thursday gave its nod […]
