MHA has details of over 10.69 lakh sexual offenders
New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) The Union home ministry has gathered the details of more than 10.69 lakh sexual offenders in the country and their profiles are available with the law-enforcement agencies on a real-time basis to probe new offences. According to the annual report of the ministry for 2020-21, the National Database on Sexual […]
Driver killed as snow avalanche hits vehicle at Shaitan nallah
Srinagar, Apr 27: A driver was killed a vehicle he was driving was hit by a snow avalanche at Shaitan nallah. As per officials said that a Tata mobile bearing number JK01Q-5635, was hit by a snow avalanche at Shaitan Nallah and the vehicle fell into the gorge. The driver identified as Sajjad Ahmed Bangroo, […]
JK bank guard’s rifle goes off accidentally, three people suffer injury
Srinagar, Apr 27: Three persons were injured after people ran helter-skelter as rifle of a bank guard went off accidentally in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Wednesday, official sources said. They said that the guard’s rifle went off accidentally at main branch of the J&K bank at Shopian this morning, leading to chaos. Three […]
11 cattle burnt to death in Poonch
Srinagar, Apr 27: At least 11 cattle were burnt alive after a fire broke out in a cowshed at Kallar Kattal in Surankote area of Poonch district on Wednesday morning. Official sources said that the cowshed belonging to Mohammad Fazal son Wazir Mohammad caught fire due to unknown reason at around 8 a.m. today. Soon […]
Kashmir residents see no relief from power outages
Srinagar, Apr 27 (PTI) There seems to be no relief in sight for the residents of Kashmir facing electricity outages for the past several days, with the authorities citing the early onset of summer and sub-optimal hydro power generation as reasons for unscheduled power cuts. Kashmir is going through one of its worst power crisis […]
Hot, Dry Weather to continue till tomorrow: MeT
Srinagar, Apr 27: The weatherman has forecast “hot & dry” weather to continue till tomorrow and a brief spell of light rain and thunderstorm on April 29-30th. “As expected, the weather remained dry in the whole J&K during the past 24 hours. Hot & dry weather likely till 28th whereas a brief spell of light […]
Let grass root level bodies flourish
Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing generous help from the centre as various sectors have found a mention in the budgetary allocations that have been announced during the past month. One such sector that needs lot of push and promotion is the co-operative sector that needs to be taken up for revival owing to the […]
BoJo’s visit: UK has to treat India as bigger partner
Asad Mirza In Persian there is an old proverb: ‘Amad`an, nashist`am, ghuft`am, barkhas`tam’, meaning they came, they sat, they talked and then dispersed. It actually means to say that nothing substantial was achieved by the visit or the talks. The same could be said about the recent visit by the British PM Boris Johnson to […]
NEP 2020: Push towards India-centric education system
Er. Prabhat Kishore Education is a fundamental requirement for the development of an egalitarian society. In this context, three National Education Policies (NEP), namely NEP 1968, NEP 1986 and NEP 2020 have been introduced in India so far. The new NEP 2020, adopted on 29th July 2020, aims to universalize education from pre-school to secondary […]
Jammu reports nine covid-19 cases
Srinagar, Apr 26: Jammu and Kashmir recorded nine new covid-19 cases, all from the J&K’s winter capital, while there was no death due to the virus during past 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday. They said that fresh cases take the overall tally to 454013—166325 in Jammu and 287688 in Kashmir. There was no death […]
