Mapping ‘out of school children’
JK Samagra Shiksha e-launches Talaash App
JAMMU: Samagra Shiksha, Department of School Education, Jammu and Kashmir, Friday e-launched the ‘Talaash’ app for mainstreaming of Out of School Children (OOSC). The app was launched by Project Director Samagra Shiksha J&K, Dr. Arun Manhas. The OOSC programme aims to enumerate and keep track of OOSC in a timely and quality manner, through intensive […]
More than 500 Kargil bound passengers airlifted
Srinagar: 31 passengers were airlifted from Kargil to Srinagar and 75 passengers from Srinagar to Kargil, in two sorties of AN-32 aircraft of Indian Air Force and 3 passengers were lifted from Kargil to Chandigarh, an official spokesman said Friday. He said that 208 passengers were airlifted from Srinagar to Leh and 183 passengers from […]
VC SKUAST Jammu, social activist call on Lt Guv
JAMMU: Prof. J.P. Sharma, Vice-Chancellor, SKUAST-Jammu, Friday called on the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha here at Raj Bhavan. The Vice-Chancellor briefed the Lt Governor on various ongoing outreach activities, and research programmes in the University, besides other issues of academic and administrative importance. The Lt Governor asked the VC to lay special emphasis on seamless […]
JK Tourism department organizes road show at Delhi
NEW DELHI: The Department of Tourism J&K in collaboration with the Travel Agents Association of Kashmir (TAAK) organized a grand promotional evening and roadshow in New Delhi in which more than 200 prominent travel agents including heads of main travel bodies, various signatories and senior officers participated. The highlight of the event was an enthralling […]
Advisor Baseer Khan holds grievance camp at Vessu Migrant Colony
KULGAM: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan Friday held a grievance redressal camp at Migrant Colony Vessu to take first hand appraisal of issues and to oversee the services and facilities available for migrants at the colony. During the camp, the inhabitants of the colony apprised the Advisor about various issues which included inadequate […]
Innovators’ Meet held at KU’s Zakura Campus
VC vows establishment of new centre
Srinagar: Vice-Chancellor University of Kashmir Prof Talat Ahmad Friday inaugurated an innovators’ meet at the varsity’s Institute of Technology (IoT), Zakura Campus. The day-long meet was organised by the National Innovation Foundation Cell-JK, established at the University of Kashmir under the aegis of National Innovation Foundation-India, an autonomous body of the Department of Science and […]
Driver dies, two others injured in landslide at Udhumpur
Udhumpur: A driver was killed even as two others sustained injuries after a major landslide hit several vehicles along Srinagar-Jammu highway at Samroli in Udhumpur district. Reports said that several vehicles came under a major landslide resulting in on spot death of a JCB driver besides injuries to two others. The deceased has been identified […]
Complex housing govt office gutted in Kalaroos
Srinagar: Three shops and as many rooms housing a government office were gutted in a devastating fire in Kalaroos area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday, officials said. They said that fire erupted at 06: 5 a.m. at Kalaroos and spread to upper stories of two buildings. Three shops—two of them dealing with readymade […]
Decomposed body recovered in Pattan
Srinagar:An unidentified decomposed male body was found at Zangam Pattan in north Kashmir on Friday morning, officials said. They said some locals spotted the body in Zangam near railway bridge. As per eyewitness, the body is decomposed. Meanwhile, locals informed the police station Pattan and they took the body into their possession. The body has […]
