Handicrafts dept records brisk sale of woollen carpets during product sales at Sgr
SRINAGAR, AUG 8: Buoyed by the overwhelming response to Trainee Product Sale, organised as part of National Handloom Day, Department of Handicrafts and Handlooms, Kashmir, is organizing a Gandhi Shilp Bazaar at Kashmir Haat, also known as Numaish Gah, from August 20-27, later this month. A large number of visitors turned up at Kashmir Haat […]
CS pushes for faster reforms to boost Ease of Doing Business
SRINAGAR, AUG 8: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, Friday chaired a meeting to review implementation of compliance reduction and deregulation reforms recommended by the National Task Force, headed by the Cabinet Secretary, Government of India, to ensure Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) across the country. The meeting was attended by senior officers including Commissioner Secretary, Housing […]
Lok Sabha adjourned for day amid din of oppn protests over SIR
New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Friday amid vociferous protests by opposition parties demanding a discussion on the ongoing revision of electoral rolls in Bihar. Before the House was adjourned, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman withdrew the earlier ‘Income-Tax Bill, 2025’, with the Select Committee having submitted its […]
Police search houses of Pakistan-based terrorists in Doda
Jammu, Aug 8 (PTI) Searches were carried out at the houses of Pakistan-based terrorists across fifteen locations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district as part of a massive clampdown on the terror ecosystem in the region, officials said on Friday. “The searches in the Doda district were conducted in the houses of terrorists currently in […]
Sitharaman withdraws Income Tax Bill in Lok Sabha; new Bill to be introduced on Aug 11
New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday withdrew the Income Tax Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha, and the government will come out with an updated version of the legislation after incorporating changes suggested by the Select Committee. A new version of the Income Tax Bill will be introduced in the […]
Rahul’s claim is case of someone cutting branch he is sitting on: BJP
New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) The BJP on Friday mocked Rahul Gandhi’s disclosure to back his allegations of rigging in the Maharashtra assembly polls as a case of someone cutting the branch he is sitting on, and said the Congress and its allies won most of the their seats where the number of voters had […]
Anti-terror operation in Kulgam enters 8th day
Srinagar, Aug 8 (PTI) In one of the longest anti-terror operations in south Kashmir, the gunfight in Kulgam district entered the eighth day on Friday as security forces continued to battle the terrorists hiding in the deep forest area, officials said. Senior police and Army officers are monitoring the operation round-the-clock, the officials said. On […]
EC officials question Rahul Gandhi over ‘delay’ in filing objections on draft Bihar poll roll
NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (PTI): With no political party approaching the Election Commission for inclusion or removal of names from Bihar’s draft voters’ list, sources in the poll panel on Friday questioned why Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has not raised any objections now. Taking a dig at Gandhi, the sources said it seems the Congress […]
Building damaged in fire mishap at Kupwara in north Kashmir
Srinagar, Aug 8: A fire broke out overnight in a commercial cum residential building in Batergam area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Officials said that a fire broke out late on Thursday evening in a commercial-cum-residential building at Batergam. Soon a team of police and Fire & Emergency Services reached to the spot and managed […]
CBK presents charge-sheet in multiple-crore online financial fraud case
Srinagar, Aug 8:The Economic Offences Wing of Crime Branch Kashmir on Friday said that it has filed a preliminary chargesheet in Case FIR No. 28/2025 under Sections 318(4), 316(5) read with 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, of Police Station Kangan (transferred to Economic Offences Wing) before the Court of Judicial Magistrate 1st […]