J-K bank case: I-T dept initiates action; conducts raids
Srinagar/New Delhi: Within days of anti-corruption bureau action against J&K Bank, the Income-Tax Department Tuesday initiated probe into the alleged irregularities and conducted searches at 10 premises on a business firm of a senior Srinagar municipal corporation functionary, officials said. Tax sleuths raided eight premises in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar and one each […]
Crime Branch Kashmir booked fake Facebook account holder
Srinagar: Crime Branch Kashmir registered a case punishable U/s 420 RPC, 66-(D) I.T Act for running a fake facebook account page in the name of Dr. Gull Javid of SKIMS Soura and having uploaded fake post regarding kidney failure of a patient and receiving donations/charity from general public. Crime Branch Kashmir received complaint alleging therein […]
Govt warns against sale of spurious pesticides, fungicides
Srinagar: Taking a serious note of use of spurious pesticides and fungicides by some dealers and instructed, Director Agriculture Kashmir dissected the enforcement agency to be vigilant and increase the touring and monitoring and warned them stern action under Insecticides Act. Also as Insecticide/Fertilizer Controller Director Agriculture issued on spot circular to all the dealers that […]
Government hospitals charging patients for medical services unfair: DAK
Srinagar: While government hospitals are duty bound to provide free treatment to patients, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday said patients are charged hefty sums on tests, procedures and medicines in Kashmir Valley’s government-run hospitals. “It is unfair for government hospitals to charge patients as they have an obligation to provide services free of […]
India’s GDP growth overestimated by 2.5 pc, says Modi govt’s former chief economic adviser
New Delhi,(PTI) Arvind Subramanian, Narendra Modi government’s former chief economic adviser, has deduced that India’s economic growth rate has been overestimated by around 2.5 percentage points between 2011-12 and 2016-17 due to a change in methodology for calculating GDP. India’s gross domestic product product (GDP) growth rate between this period should be about 4.5 per cent […]
Fire breaks out at Doordarshan Kendra in Mathura, operations hit
Mathura (UP), Jun 11 (PTI) A fire broke out in the switch gear room at the Doordarshan Kendra here on Tuesday due to a suspected short circuit, damaging property worth lakhs of rupees, an official of the public broadcaster said. Four fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was doused in about 90 […]
Zardari produced before court, anti-graft body seeks physical remand
Islamabad, Jun 11 (PTI) Pakistan’s former president Asif Ali Zardari was produced before an accountability court here on Tuesday by the anti-graft body seeking his physical remand, a day after he was arrested from his residence in the fake bank accounts case. A team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accompanied by police, including female officials, […]
I&FC official falls from under-construction building in Central Kashmir, dies
Srinagar: A- 50-year old man who was working in Irrigation and Flood Control Department died on Tuesday after falling from an under-construction building in Gandebral district of central Kashmir, officials said. Reports reaching GNS said that Zafarullah Bhat (50) son of Mohammed Maqbool Bhat, of Tulumulla Ganderbal fell from the 2nd storey of the […]
Five People Take Poisonous Tea, Admitted In Hospital
Srinagar: Five persons including husband-wife duo and their son were admitted in a hospital in serious conditions after they consumed some poisonous substance mixed inadvertently with tea in Kunzer area of north Kashmir’s Tangmarg area. Reports reaching GNS said that the five persons consumed tea made by an elderly woman who mistook some poisonous substance […]
Minor boy drowns in nallah in central Kashmir’s Budgam
Srinagar: A 3-year-old boy drowned after slipped into a nallah in Beerwah area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Tuesday. Reports reaching GNS said that the boy Amir Ahmad Bhat (3) son of Zahoor Ahmad Bhat of Waragam Beerwah slipped into the nallah on Monday evening when he was playing with other kids. Soon […]
