Second wave: Pak reports 2,738 cases of coronavirus in one day, highest since July
Islamabad: Pakistan has reported 2,738 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, highest since July 11 when the daily infection figure crossed the 2,700-mark, taking the current tally of patients with the disease in the nation to 3,68,655, a media report said on Friday. Pakistan, which recently saw a sudden spike in the […]
Highway lows
We are faced with yet another long winter season and the issues that have been affecting us over the past few years remain unchanged. The prime issue which the people in Kashmir face is the road connectivity that gets disturbed once winter sets in. Though roads and highways are mean for connectivity, development and progress, […]
A token of love
N J Ravi Chander For someone who has clocked four decades as a banker, there is no dearth of on-the-job anecdotes. The below tale is one of those astonishing ones. In 1978 Peravurani branch in Thanjavur District, under Chennai Circle, came out in flying colours in the deposit mobilisation campaign run by the bank. Bagging […]
Taxes and the Tradeoff Theory
Fahid Fayaz Darangay
The tradeoff theory justifies moderate debt ratios. It says that the firm will borrow up to the point where the marginal value of tax shields on additional debt is just offset by the increase in the present value of possible costs of financial distress. Financial distress refers to the costs of bankruptcy or reorganization, and […]
Two dozen Shopian villages without drinking water facility
Shopian: Over a dozen villages in Zainapora sub division of south Kashmir’s Shopian district are without drinking water facility since the past few months, the locals said. Residents of Amerbugh, Drawani, Alishpora, Gundidarwesh, Chidipora, Bandapawa, Wadipora, Chitragam, Thokerpora, Nagbal and its adjacent areas said that during the construction of Shopian-Bijbehara road, the pipeline was damaged […]
Digital Taxis to be rolled out in JK
JAMMU: The Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam Friday chaired a meeting to review the preparations to roll out plying of digital taxi services in Jammu and Kashmir. The Administrative Secretaries of the departments of Housing & Urban Development, and Transport, Divisional Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir, Deputy Commissioners of Srinagar and Jammu, and RTO, […]
Modi-led govt will rid JK of ‘corruption of clan’: Naqvi
Srinagar: Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday said that the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will rid Jammu and Kashmir of the “corruption of clan”. He said that the Union territory has been moving forward on the path of inclusive development by demolishing the “web of dynasty”. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
SCERT reschedules 8th standard Kashmiri, Punjabi paper
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir State Council of Educational Research and Trainings (SCERT) on Friday postponed elective Punjabi and Kashmiri paper of 8th standard. A notification issued by the department said that the papers was scheduled in the second meeting on November-21 “The examination of Punjabi and Kashmiri is rescheduled to be held on November-22 […]
Burglars strike at two shrines in north Kashmir, decamp with cash
Sopore: Burglars struck at two Shrines in two separate burglary incidents and decamped with cash in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday night. Local sources said that burglars struck at the shrine of Hazrat Syed Nizam u din Bukhari in Delina Baramulla during the intervening night of Thursday-Friday, they broke the chest located at the […]
19 persons rescued at Pir Ki Gali
Mughal road closed for traffic
Poonch: The Mughal road, connecting Shopian and Poonch districts, has been closed even as authorities rescued 19 persons including a minor who had got trapped amid fresh snowfall along the thoroughfare last night, officials said on Friday. “19 persons have been rescued by teams of police and Army from Pir Ki Gali area during a […]
