Seven arrested for gambling
Srinagar: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested seven persons related to gambling offence including four in TarzooSopore and three in Hajin areas of North Kashmir’s Baramulla and Bandipora districts. In Sopore the arrests were made after police raided a gambling site. “Four persons were arrested following a credible input of gambling offences in Tarzoo […]
DSEK fails to regulate coaching facilities in winter tutorial centres
Srinagar: The winter tutorials started by the directorate of school education department has turned out to be flop show as the permanent faculty tasked to teach in the tuition centres have failed to report to the centres leaving students to fend for themselves. The Zonal Education Officer (ZEO) Hardpunzoo in Budgam district has recommended action […]
Kashmir reels under cold wave as fresh snowfall starts
Srinagar: Kashmir continued to be in the grip of cold wave conditions as the minimum temperature stayed below the freezing point with Pahalgam tourist resort being the coldest recorded place in the valley, a weather department official said Friday. The minimum temperature in Srinagar rose last night from minus 1.3 degrees Celsius to settle at […]
Govt to compile class-wise enrollment data of all government schools
Srinagar: The school education department has started a fresh exhaustive exercise to collect the class-wise enrollment of the government schools across Kashmir. The school heads have been asked to furnish the enrollment of their schools post clubbing of the educational institutions which were having meager enrollment of the students, an official said. In this regard […]
School heads ‘hiding’ data on actual enrolment in class 10th
Srinagar: The school education department has tightened its noose against the school heads for their failure to submit the data of class 9th and 10th students enrolled in their schools during the year 2017 and 2018. The school heads have delayed the submission of data which has hindered the department action to ascertain the dropout […]
Promoted four years back teachers still awaiting formal orders
Srinagar: The school education department has come under severe criticism for delaying issuance of conformation orders of more than 200 teachers who were promoted as in-charge masters some four years ago. A group of aggrieved in-charge masters accused the department of adopting selective approach in issuing formal orders in favour of teachers whose promotion has […]
Amid stiff opposition, VC appoints new Registrar at KU
Srinagar: Amid stiff opposition, the authorities in Kashmir University (KU) appointed Dr. Nisar Ahmad Mir as the new registrar of the varsity. The appointment order has been issued by the vice-chancellor of the Kashmir University (KU) Prof. Talar Ahmad. In wake of this, Nisar Mir on Monday assumed his office as new registrar of the […]
22 workers of various political parties join NC
Jammu: Twenty-two workers of various political parties joined the National Conference (NC) on Monday in presence of its provincial president Devender Singh Rana and pledged to work for serving the people as per policies and programmes of the party. Welcoming the new entrants into the party fold, Rana said the NC is the only choice […]
