Fire damages two shops, house in North Kashmir
Two shops were gutted in a mysterious fire that broke out at Singpora Pattan area in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district late last night. However, no injuries were reported during the incident, police sources said. They said that the blaze reportedly broke out on Wednesday mid-night at Singpora Pattan involving a shopping complex, however the fire […]
Govt increases ex-gratia for slain cops
Director General of Police (DGP),Dr. S.P Vaid has thanked Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for increasing the ex-gratia relief substantially to the kins of Police martyrs and also for creation of J&K Police Service Cadre for Gazetted officers of J&K Police. Dr. Vaid was speaking at a police darbar held in a series of darbars […]
JKP among best police forces in country: Minister
SRINAGAR: Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sham Lal Choudhary today visited Chrar-e-Sharief in Budgam to felicitate a constable of Jammu and Kashmir Police for act of bravery. MLA Nowshera Ravinder Raina, SSP Budgam Tejinder Singh, SHO Budgam and other police officials were also present on the occasion. Crediting J&K Police as one […]
Dir Agriculture launches High Density Saffron Plantation
The Director Agriculture Kashmir today kick started High Density planting of saffron corms in Shaar Shali Pampore. The high density planting of corms is done by planting good quality corms of more than 6 grams and by keeping plant population of 120 corms per sq Mtr which aims at increasing the productivity, production and […]
Editorial: Ideas need to get going
The government has mulled a proposal for creating a Centre for Training and Skill Development and Centre for Incubation and Business Acceleration at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI). The move assumes significance given the fact that the state of Jammu and Kashmir is faced with an uphill task of creating more and more employment avenues […]
Minister conducts extensive tour of Budgam
Minister for Public Works Naeem Akhtar today said that decades old roads in Budgam district that had been left out of development process will be taken up on priority basis so that a large population in these areas are also included in the State’s march of progress. The Minister was speaking to various delegations […]
ADGP felicitates SDRF winning team
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Civil Defense, Home Guards and SDRF, L. Mohanti, today felicitated the Civil Defense/ SDRF team for winning gold medal in the 3rd White Water rafting marathon held at Wussan Ganderbal recently. While interacting with the award winning team, the ADGP said that sports activities have a positive role on […]
Raja Manzoor chairs Public Undertakings Sub-Committee meeting
A meeting of the Sub-Committee on Public Undertakings of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly was held today under the chairmanship of MLA Raja Manzoor Ahmed to examine the violation of rules by the J&K Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Limited (SICOP) about shifting of machinery from proposed places and exceeding the land allotment limits. Legislators […]
Minister reviews water supply positioning of Amira Kadal Constituency
Minister for Education, Syed, Mohammad Altaf Bukhari today chaired a meeting of officers to review the water supply positioning of Amira Kadal constituency. The meeting was attended by Commissioner Secretary PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Saurabh Bhagat, Chief Engineer PHE Kashmir G M Bhat and other concerned officers. On the occasion, Bukhari took the stock […]
Awareness camp on GST held
District Administration, Ganderbal today organized awareness-cum-interactive session on Goods and Services Tax in coordination with Department of Commercial Taxes at DC office Complex Ganderbal under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal. The DDC while interacting with stakeholders said that the aim of conducting this programme was to educate, orient and clear their apprehensions, doubts and […]