Assembly passes Rs 95666.97 Cr Budget for 2018-19
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Temperatures dip further in JK
Srinagar: Minimum temperatures in the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday plummeted further due to clear overnight sky, a Met official said.Srinagar city recorded a minimum temperature of minus 1.5, Pahalgam minus 4.2 and Gulmarg minus 7 degrees Celsius.At minus 13, Kargil was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir as Leh recorded […]
No proposal to probe civilian killings in 2016 unrest: Govt
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Cancer is on the rise, so is govt’s failure to tackle it
Srinagar: With government acknowledging the fact that there has been a surge in cancer cases in the state, the ways of tackling it, so far, have not proven fruitful, with govt’s cancer outreach programme standing as a colossal failure across the state.Cancer outreach programme that was started several years ago in collaboration with SKIMS was […]
Pakistan offers scholarship to influence Kashmir students: NIA
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has claimed that Pakistan is offering scholarships to Kashmiri students who were either relatives of militants or those known to Hurriyat leaders.According to the charge sheet filed in the court, the NIA said that their visa applications were recommended to the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi by […]
BJP to press for early panchayat polls at all-party meet
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP said today it would press for early panchayat polls at the all party meeting to be chaired by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti tomorrow.Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Law and Justice, Abdul Haq Khan, said yesterday the meeting was called with an to seek views of […]
Stay away from the institution of panchayat, AJKPC tells political parties
Srinagar: Asking all the political parties of the state not to poke their nose in the Panchayat elections, All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) on Saturday said that Panchayats are merely a community institutions and not a political one. In a day long executive body meeting of AJKPC held at Srinagar, the Panchayat Conference […]
‘43 CRF projects worth Rs 599.20 cr approved in 2016-17’
Jammu:The Minister for Works Naeem Akhtar Saturday said the Government has received approval of 43 CRF projects worth Rs 599.20 crore during 2016-17, on which work is at different levels of construction.He, however, said that state government submitted 148 connectivity projects worth Rs 2275.75 crore to Union Government for approval under the scheme in last […]
CBI arrests GST Commissioner, 8 others in bribery case
New Delhi: The CBI has arrested a Goods and Services Tax commissioner from Kanpur and eight others, including three officials, busting an alleged bribery racket in the department, the agency sources said. The officials used to collect regular bribes from businessmen and industrialists of Kanpur for providing them tax-related relief and shielding them from notices […]