Visible loopholes
Sunday yet again provided a grim reminder to the security establishment, especially the police that it has miserably failed to check the loopholes that have been affecting it as a malaise since the past few years. Two incidents within a short span of 100 days have left the police establishment baffled as two similar incidents […]
Challenge called life……
Faizan Bashir We often show lackadaisical approach towards our ambition — especially students, so are used to count excuses and loiter thereof. And, in the long run, contrition becomes our part. What of those who have met horrible tragedies, yet called by the titles given upon them. Are you privileged enough to do wonders then? […]
Malik recalls sacrifices of Prof Wani on his anniversary
Says Jamia Masjid’s desecration unacceptable
Srinagar: Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik on Monday recalled the services and sacrifices of legendary Shaheed-I-Daanish Professor Abdul Ahmad Wani on his anniversary, saying that struggle nurtured by the sacred blood of persons like Prof Wani cannot be suppressed by any ‘tyranny or oppression’. “Shaheed-I-Daanish Professor Abdul Ahmad Wani was […]
Subsidised LPG price cut by Rs 5.91; non-subsidised rate reduced by Rs 120.50
New Delhi: Domestic cooking gas (LPG) price was cut by Rs 5.91 per cylinder Monday, the second straight reduction in a month’s time due to tax impact on reduced market rate of the fuel. A 14.2-kg subsidised LPG cylinder will cost Rs 494.99 in the national capital from midnight tonight as against Rs 500.90 currently, […]
With 586 killings, 2018 proved to be deadliest during the last decade in Kashmir: Report
Srinagar: 2018 was the deadliest in last decade with 586 people killed in different incidents of violence in Kashmir Valley, Association of Parents Of Disappeared Persons and Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) said in a joint report released here on Monday. “The year 2018 was the deadliest year of the last decade in […]
Weatherman forecast light rains, snow on New Year eve
Srinagar: The weatherman on Monday forecasted “fairly widespread light rain and snow” in a couple of days from tomorrow even as mercury plummeted again in Kashmir with Srinagar, the summer capital of the state being the coldest place in Valley. Although there was a spell of early snowfall in the valley in the first and […]
1 killed in ‘unprovoked firing’ by Indian forces: Pak
Islamabad: Pakistan said on Monday that “unprovoked firing” by Indian forces across the Line of Control (LoC) killed a woman. “Indian troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LOC targeting civil population in Shahkot sector,” Army spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said. One woman, identified as Asia Bibi, died while nine people were injured […]
PDD promotes 192 Engineers
Jammu: On the directions of Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam, Power Development Department (PDD) has conducted Departmental Promotion Committee meetings regarding regularization of the officers on substantive basis. Consequently, placement of one hundred and ten (110) Junior Engineers (Degree holders) as I/C Assistant Engineers (Electric), placement of seventy three (73) I/C Assistant Engineers (Degree/Diploma holders) as […]
Governor Malik releases Compendium on Budget 2019-20
‘Govt resolutely working towards fostering new era of development, prosperity in JK’
Jammu: Governor, Satya Pal Malik today said the State Budget 2019-20 has laid a progressive roadmap for implementing a series of structural reforms to foster a new era of development, growth and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir. “The Government has enumerated a slew of measures in the budget with adequate financial support to ensure that […]
Your old ATM/Debit card may not work from tomorrow
New Delhi: If you are still carrying your old ATM-cum-debit card with magnetic stripe, there is a possibility that your card will not work tomorrow (January 1). This is because an RBI circular had mandated that all old ATM debit cards with magnetic stripe chip be replaced with the one with EMV chip before December […]
