Sericulture Deptt to adopt Jagti, Sheikhpora colonies for Mulberry plantation
JAMMU: The Sericulture Development Department is adopting migrant colonies at Jagti in Jammu and Sheikhpora in Budgam district under Urban Mulberry Plantation Programme, which has already been launched in the Jammu Division. This was disclosed in a meeting chaired by Secretary Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (DMRRR) Farooq Ahmad Shah. Under the programme, 2000 […]
Juvenile Justice: Child line Foundation to expand its services across JK by 2020
JAMMU: In a major step towards implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act, Child line India Foundation shall extend its operations in the entire State by the year 2020, government said on Wednesday. The information was revealed, according to official handout, at a meeting attended by Chairperson Selection cum Oversight Committee, Justice (Retd) Hasnain Masoodi , […]
Invoking sedition law travesty of free speech, world has moved on: Shah Faesal on JNU case
Srinagar: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal Wednesday said invoking sedition law against Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the JNU case was travesty of free speech. Nearly three years after former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kumar and nine others were accused of raising anti-India slogans, the Delhi police Monday charged them with sedition. […]
2 die after fall while flying kites in Hyderabad
Hyderabad,(PTI): A 11-year-old boy and a man died while another boy was injured after falling from buildings in separate kite flying incidents here in the past three days, police said Wednesday. In the fatal incident, the boy fell from the third floor of a building in Habeebnagar and succumbed to injuries at a hospital on Monday, […]
Two killed, three injured in separate road accidents in J-K
Jammu,(PTI) Two persons were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Samba and Ramban districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said Wednesday. A-three vehicle crash killed the driver of an oil tanker and injured three others near Railway bridge Nanak Chack in Samba Tuesday night, they said. The identity of the deceased driver […]
China expanding access to strategic foreign ports: Pentagon
Washington, Jan 16 (PTI) China is expanding its access to strategic foreign ports like Pakistan’s Gwadar and Sri Lanka’s Hambantota to pre-position the logistic framework necessary to support the growing presence of its military in the Indian Ocean and beyond, the Pentagon said. The People’s Liberation Army’s efforts to obtain access to commercial ports in Africa, […]
Top Taliban commander among 4 militants killed in Pakistan
Peshawar (PTI) Security forces in Pakistan have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year’s powerful bomb blast in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed. Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam and Mohibullah […]
2 drug peddlers held with 175 kg poppy in Jammu
Jammu (PTI): Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested in separate cases after a huge consignment of poppy straw, and charas were seized from their possession along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, police said on Wednesday. Nitin Sharma (30), a resident of R S Pura, was arrested after police seized 175 kg poppy straw from his truck at Nagrota […]
Indian-origin doctor embroiled in healthcare fraud in US freed on record USD 7 mn bond
Houston,(PTI): An Indian-American doctor, indicted in one of the largest healthcare fraud cases in the US history involving a USD 464 million conspiracy, was freed on a record-setting USD 7 million bond. Rajendra Bothra, 77, who was awarded Padmashri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, was indicted along with five other physicians in the alleged USD 464 million […]
Over 2,300 women to go on Haj this year without ”Mehram”: Naqvi
New Delhi (PTI): Over 2,300 Muslim women from India will go on Haj this year without ‘Mehram’ or male companion as all those who applied under this category have been exempted from the lottery system, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Wednesday. The Modi government had last year allowed women going to Haj without Mehram, […]