Environment damage behind 1 in 4 global deaths, disease: UN
Nairobi: A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage, the United Nations said Wednesday in a landmark report on the planet’s parlous state. Deadly smog-inducing emissions, chemicals polluting drinking water, and the accelerating destruction of ecosystems crucial to the livelihoods of billions of people are driving […]
BJP woman MP’s son among three held for possessing smack
Mandla (MP), Mar 13 (PTI) BJP MP Sampatiya Uike’s 21-year-old son and two others have been arrested here for allegedly possessing smack, police said on Wednesday. Raja Uike, son of the Rajya Sabha member, was arrested along with Abhishek Lakda (22) and Shahrukh Khan (26) on Tuesday night at Devdara locality in the city, he […]
Search operation started in Bijbehara Village
Srinagar ; Government forces on Wednesday morning launched a Cordon and Search operation in Khiram Srigufwara area of Bijbehara belt in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Official sources said that on specific inputs about the presence of militants in the forces government forces including 3 RR and SOG of Jammy and Kashmir Police launched Search operation […]
Election Commission observers tasked to visit JK
New Delhi (PTI) The three special observers appointed by the Election Commission to suggest as to when Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir can be held, will visit the state soon. While announcing the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections on Sunday, the poll panel had said that Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir cannot be […]
Failure to designate Masood Azhar as global terrorist against regional stability, peace: US
Washington, Mar 13 (PTI) Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar meets the criteria to be designated as a global terrorist and not doing so is against regional stability and peace, the US said Tuesday on the eve of the UN Security Council making a crucial decision in this regard. The JeM, headed by the 50-year-old Azhar, carried out […]
Kejriwal cites AAP’s survey to attack BJP over Pulwama
New Delhi: (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal cited an internal survey of his party to claim that 56 per cent people feel the BJP will suffer electoral losses because of its “conduct” regarding the Pulwama terror attack and the subsequent Indo-Pakistan tensions. Hitting back, the BJP said it was a “shame” that Kejriwal was […]
Easing out air travel
As the Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been giving the passengers a tough time and air travel getting out of the reach of even the upper class, the clamor for having an airlines operating with cheaper rates is growing in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The skyrocketing airfares that are being witnessed by passengers travelling […]
On Speechless Animals!
Peer Faizan Bashir Imagine a sheep drags you by the neck and slashes your throat on-the-ground with a sharp-edged object…unequivocally; this arouses the intense feeling of pain! The pain having no powers- it doesn’t kill us; it doesn’t harm our body. Just a decision to fend it off, and it is over. But, what about […]
DDC Kupwara inaugurates employment fair
KUPWARA: District Development Commissioner Kupwara, Anshul Garg today inaugurated one-day Job fair-cum-placement program for educated unemployed youth of the district at Government Degree College Kupwara. The job fair was organized by District Employment and Counseling Centre under the supervision of Assistant Director Employment Kupwara, Shabnam Aarif Mir, with the aim to aware youth about various […]
JAKFA elects office bearers
Jammu: The results of first ever elections to various posts of executive body of Jammu and Kashmir finance and accounts society (JAKFA) were declared in Civil Secretariat on Tuesday. Mohammad Rafiq (Director Finance) was elected as President (JAKFA) where as Dr. Zaffer Iqbal (Deputy Director Central ) was elected as vice president Jammu province. Pertinently, […]