Dr. Samoon reviews JKEIP-2020
JAMMU: Principal Secretary, Skill Development Department, Dr.Asgar Hassan Samoon Wednesday chaired a meeting of senior officers of various departments to discuss and review the JK Education Investment Policy, 2020(JKEIP) at Civil Secretariat here. Commissioner Secretary, Higher Education Department, Talat Parvez Rohella; Special Secretary, lndustries & Commerce, Tariq Ahmad Zargar; MD SIDCO, Mohammad Harun; MD SICOP, […]
Secy RDD inaugurates -3day workshop
Flags off 3rd batch of Sarpanches to Rajasthan
JAMMU: Secretary Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Sheetal Nanda Wednesday inaugurated three-day training programme for on boarding of Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) under HIMAYAT on “Kaushal Bharat” portal. The workshop was attended by Chief Operating Officer, Himayat, Kapil Sharma; Chief General Manager, NABARD, AjaySood; DGM, NABARD, Rahul Shashni; Director (Skills), MoRD, GoI, Sourabh Dubey; Director, […]
Block Diwas held at various places
SRINAGAR: As part of Governments ambitious Jan Abhiyan programme, the Block Divas or Youm-e-Block was observed today with great enthusiasm at Ganderbal, Pulwama, Anantnag and Kulgam districts of Kashmir division. On the occasion, the respective District Administrations organised grievance redressal camps besides other related events at Block Headquarters and at different locations of the district […]
Two drug peddlers arrested in Udhampur, Reasi
Jammu: Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested on Wednesday after huge quantities of poppy straw and charas were recovered from their possession in Udhampur and Reasi districts, police said. Pawan Kumar, a resident of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, was arrested after 18 kg of poppy straw was recovered from his truck during checking at Motorshed in […]
Youth injured in Sonwar firing incident
Srinagar, Feb 17: A 22-year-old youth was on Wednesday evening injured in a firing incident in Sonwar area of Srinagar, official sources said. Official sources said that a civilian identified as Aakash Mehra, son of Ramesh Kumar Mehra was injured after suspected militants fired some shots near the Krishna Dhaba in Sonwar area here. They […]
34 travellers among 84 fresh covid-19 cases in JK
Srinagar, Feb 17: Jammu and Kashmir reported 84 new covid-19 cases, 34 of them travellers, even as no death took place due the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. They said 11 cases were from Jammu Division and 73 from Kashmir Valley, taking the total case tally to 125547. Providing district-wise […]
Two Armymen injured in road accident, hospitalised
Jammu, Feb 17 (PTI) Two Army personnel were injured on Wednesday when the vehicle they were travelling in fell down from a bridge in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The Army vehicle broke the bridge’s railing after its driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed it into the dry river bed […]
Hizb Militant associates arrested in Tral, IED material recovered
Srinagar, February 17: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested three Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen outfit in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Awantipora. In a statement police said that, acting on specific information of militant movement, Awantipora Police along with 42 RR and 180 BN CRPF launched search operation in village Batagund and […]
Cabinet nod to juvenile justice law amendments
New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015, increasing the role of district magistrates and additional district magistrates. Addressing the media on the Cabinet decision, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said in every district, the district magistrate and […]
Gold plunges Rs 717; silver declines Rs 1,274
New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) Gold in the national capital plunged Rs 717 to Rs 46,102 per 10 gram on Wednesday in line with decline in global precious metal prices, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 46,819 per 10 gram. Silver also declined Rs 1,274 to Rs […]
