Minister for effectively tapping tourism potential of Pir Panchal region
Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Information, Choudhary Zulfkar Ali today stressed on chalking out a comprehensive plan to optimally tap the tourism potential of the Pir Panchal region. The Minister was speaking at a meeting convened to review the progress of tourism development works taken up in Rajouri district. District […]
J&K Bank bags awards at RSETI-DIWAS in Delhi
J&K Bank’s Rural Self Employment Training Institute (RSETI) Bandipora bagged an award for good performance during the 4th RSETI DIWAS at Vigyan Bhawan New Delhi wherein RSETIs across the country participated. As sponsoring bank of 12 RSETIs in the state, J&K Bank also was awarded in category ‘C’, where there are 10-20 RSETIs. To recognize […]
DDC reviews progress of development activities at Mendhar
District Development Commissioner Poonch Tariq Ahmad Zargar today took stock of developmental activities being carried out in subdivision Mendhar here at a meeting of district and sectoral officers. The meeting was attended by senior civil and police officers, including SDM Mendhar, Tehsildar, BDOs, AEEs, NTs and other officials. The meeting discussed status of ongoing developmental […]
Minister for making functioning of LAHDC more vibrant
Minister for Cooperatives and Ladakh Affairs, Chering Dorjay, Saturday stressed on bringing more vibrancy in the functioning of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (LAHDC) of Kargil and Leh and called for putting in strenuous efforts for development and empowerment of the both districts. The Minister stated this while chairing a meeting with the Chief Executive […]
Editorial: Meltdown needed
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart from Pakistan Mohammad Nawaz Sharif greeted each other at a dinner in honour of visiting heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. This was the first time when the two prime ministers have spoken to each other in person after December 2015 […]
Minister distributes relief among Chinar Bagh fire sufferers
The Minister for Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, today handed over cash assistance to the fire sufferers of Chinar Bagh, whose residential houses were gutted in a fire incident on March 27. Around Rs 13 lakh of cash assistance was distributed among 13 beneficiaries which includes Rs 1,05,700 cash assistance per structure for 12 beneficiaries […]
Government, opposition on warpath over GST
Opposition parties are all set to resist the bid by the government to dilute the financial autonomy of the state. The parties will press upon the government to protect the special status before taking any decision on the implementation of the GST. A day after NC raised its concerns over the implementation of the […]
Four years on, regulation of coaching centres remains a distant dream
Even after the passage of more than four years, the regulation of the private coaching centres by competent authorities seems a distant dream in Kashmir. Since 2012, the school education department has failed to regulate the functioning of private coaching institutes which has given a free hand to the proprietors to fleece the parents, […]
MCI Visit: GMC to seek recognition for Pharmacology, Anatomy
Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar is mulling over to seek recognition for the courses like Pharmacology and Anatomy, as a team from Medical Council of India (MCI) is expected to visit the institution next week. These courses are, as of now, non-recognized by the MCI as the departments have been operationalised with the consent of […]
Minister reviews Kharif programmes for Jammu division
Minister for Agriculture Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura today chaired a meeting to review various development programmes and farmers’ welfare schemes along with availability of inputs for the current Kharif. Speaking at the meeting he said the government is making all out efforts for sustained growth of the agriculture sector by introducing several innovative measures to […]