37 employees suspended in Kishtwar
Jammu: Kishtwar district authorities have suspended at least 37 government employees for being absent from duty without approval, an official spokesman said Wednesday. During a surprise inspection at government offices in Marwah tehsil yesterday, District Development Commissioner Angrez Singh Rana ordered that the employees absent without official approval be suspended. Seventeen of the employees suspended […]
107th SLBC Meet: Smooth Credit Flow vital for development narrative, says CS
Jammu: J&K Bank Wednesday convened 107th meeting of J&K State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) here at the conference centre of Hotel Radisson Blu, Jammu. The meeting was presided over by B. B. Vyas, Chief Secretary J&K Government. Other prominent dignitaries who attended the meeting included Financial Commissioner, Housing & Urban Development Department. K. B. Aggarwal, […]
Keen to equip tourist spots with modern infrastructure, says Minister
Jammu: Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment Choudhary Lal Singh said that Surinsar and Mansar gardens are one of the finest tourist destinations in the state, adding that the Government is keen to equip such spots with modern infrastructural edifice to facilitate the tourist thronging these places from across the country. This was stated by […]
Minister reviews stock and supply position in Jammu
Jammu: Minister for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and Tribal Affairs, Choudhary Zulfkar Ali Wednesday convened a meeting regarding NFSA and MMSFES to review stock and supply position in Jammu province. The meeting was attended by Commissioner Secretary, FCS&CA, M.D Khan, Additional Secretary, Jugal Kishore Anand, Financial advisor, FCS&CA, Zia-ul-Rehman, Deputy Director planning, FCS&CA […]
Minister for vibrant cooperative movement
Jammu: Minister of State for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control, Cooperative, Mir Zahoor Ahmad called for collective efforts by all stakeholders to make cooperative movement a vibrant vocation in the state. “This will ensure employment generation for state’s skilled and unskilled youth thus giving a further fillip to state’s economic profile”, the Minister maintained. […]
Life Insurance Wing of State Funds Org decentralized
Jammu: The government has accorded sanction to decentralization of State Life Insurance Wing of J&K Funds Organization from provincial level to District Level. “Sanction is accorded to the decentralization of State Life Insurance wing of J&K Funds Organization from provincial level to Districtlevel,” said an order issued by the Principal Secretary Finance, Mr Navin Kumar […]
JCCI demands Super Speciality Hospital
Jammu: Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries (JCCI) Wednesday demanded that the Super Speciality Hospital at Meheshpura Jammu be outsourced to some leading national player so that quality health care could be provided to the masses. As per the statement, issued here, on the request of Chamber President Rakesh Gupta, the Minister for Health & […]
Editorial: Will Asifa get justice?
Srinagar: The eight year old girl who fell to an inhuman act committed by a cop and another youth-it seems is far from getting any justice from the system that is so crammed up with irrelevant issues. One the one hand various organizations who have stepped out brazenly are hell bent on seeking the release […]
Khaled Hosseini’s next book on refugee crisis
New Delhi: A riveting collection of thoughts of a father watching over his sleeping son as they travel to foreign lands from their war-ridden homeland Syria sets the ground for famous Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini’s next book ‘Sea Prayer to be released on August 30 this year. Written in the form of a letter, ‘Sea […]
Pak SC disqualifies Sharif as PML-N chief
Islamabad: In a major blow to Nawaz Sharif’s political career, Pakistan’s Supreme Court today disqualified the ousted prime minister as the chief of his own party and struck down all decisions taken by him as the party head. Sharif, 68, was disqualified as the prime minister by the apex court in the Panama Papers case […]