Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart, focus on border situation
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said his talks with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang at their first meeting focused on addressing current challenges to the bilateral ties, especially peace and tranquillity in the border areas. The discussions on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting came amid the over 34-month-long […]
CS Chairs 9th UT-Level Bankers’ Committee meeting
Directs banks to saturate self-employment to bring the unemployment rate in J&K to its lowest
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta today said that the UT government is committed to bringing down the unemployment in J&K to below 5%, and for this banks need to put a well-drilled mechanism for saturating the self- employment. He made these comments while chairing the 9th Union Territory Level Bankers’ […]
Union Minister visits Baramlla, reviews central schemes
Inaugurates mobile Veterinary Clinic Vans, interacts with PRIs
BARAMULLA: Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala, on Thursday visited Baramulla and reviewed implementation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes in the district. Union Minister was informed that district Baramulla produces 19.50 crore litres of milk annually which makes the district milk surplus. It was given out that 368 cases were sponsored under […]
Principal Secretary Jal Shakti reviews progress on development works
JAMMU: Principal Secretary, Jal Shakti Department, Shaleen Kabra, Thursday reviewed progress on development works being executed under the jurisdiction of Irrigation Division number 1, Jammu. He inspected the construction work on Tawi Barrage and issued instructions for expediting the work to ensure its completion within the fixed date. Principal Secretary also inspected the desilting works […]
Achieve completion targets of works under Capex budget: Official
Says all directions issued by CS need to be followed
JAMMU: Secretary Planning, Development and Monitoring Department, Dr Raghav Langer Thursday chaired a meeting to review expenditure under Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS), physical/financial progress under UT Capex, physical verification of completed works and projects identified for monitoring on UT PMG portal. The Planning Officers of all Administrative Departments participated in the meeting. Secretary Planning directed […]
DGP sanctions welfare loan, relief for police personnel
Jammu: Continuing its endeavor to provide financial assistance to J&K Police personnel, Director General of Police, Dilbag Singh has sanctioned over rupees 1.08 crore as welfare loan/relief in favour of 93 serving Police personnel, a police spokesman said Thursday. He said that the DGP sanctioned welfare loan of rupees 83.5 lakh in favour of 64 […]
Rohmoo Pulwama residents demand fire service station
Say the entire belt does not have a fire station
Pulwama: The residents of Rohmoo area in Rajpora hamlet of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district have demanded a fire service station for their area. The residents of the area said that there are around 20-25 villages around Rohmoo where thousands of households are putting up but the area is yet to get this basic facility. The […]
ULPIN, ‘Aapki Zameen Aapki Nigrani’: Awareness Camp (IEC) held at Sopore
BARANULLA: An IEC/Awareness programme regarding ULPIN and LRIS (Aap Ki Zameen Aapki Nigrani) was Thursday held at Meeting Hall of Additional Deputy Commissioner Office Sopore under the overall supervision of Regional Director Survey and Land Records (S&LR) North Kashmir, Khurshid Ahamd Shah in collaboration with Additional Deputy Commissioner Sopore. Besides Tehsildars of Sopore, Dangerpora, Watergam, […]
DHEW-Mission Shakti B’gam conduct series of Awareness camps
BUDGAM: The District Hub for Empowerment of Women (DHEW) – Mission Shakti in collaboration with One Stop Centre Budgam conducted series of camps under the banner of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) and as a part of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) at Panchayat Halqa Kawoosa Khalisa A&B, Kawoosa Jagir, Narbal A&B, Chewa, Arath, Kanihama, […]
