SKIMS celebrate World Diabetes Day
Srinagar: Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences organized World Diabetes Day celebrations at the SKIMS auditorium on Wednesday. The event focused on creating awareness about diabetes, particularly in children. The event started with registration, blood tests and anthropometry of the patients. To stress the importance of life style modification in the management of diabetes, a physical […]
JK lacks in Oro-dental health care, says DAK
Pitches for creation of new dental surgeon posts
Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Wednesday held a meeting which was attended by its core and executive members and was headed by President DAK Dr Suahil Naik. The core agenda of meet was poor Oro-dental care and facilities in state of Jammu and Kashmir, a DAK statement said. Keeping in view the increasing number of patients […]
Three missing Punjab residents found dead under landslide debris
Banihal: Three Punjab residents, including a father-son duo, who had gone missing last week following a landslide on Jammu-Srinagar national highway, were found dead under the debris Wednesday, police said. Search teams recovered the bodies from the landslide site at Battery Cheshma along Banihal-Ramban stretch after a hectic 10-day search, a police official said. He […]
Drug peddler among five detained
Jammu: Five persons, including a suspected drug peddler, have been taken into preventive custody in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Payar Hussain, a resident of KoteDabbar village, was detained in Nowshera area of the district and lodged in district jail, a police spokesman said. Hussain is a notorious drug peddler cum […]
SHRC issues notice to Chief Engineer, PDD
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to Chief Engineer Power Development Department for resorting to unscheduled power cuts both in metered and non-metered areas and for irregular power supply as winter has set in. The SHRC has sought a report from the Chief Engineer within a week’s time. […]
JK has 30,548 operational SHGs, 16,500 more to come up: Official
JAMMU: Over 30,500 women self help groups (SHG) are operational in Jammu and Kashmir and 16,500 more will be set up during the current financial year, a senior official said Tuesday. Under the State Rural Livelihoods Mission (SRLM), 22 districts covering 83 blocks have 30,548 SHGs and 2,77,342 women are a part of them, said […]
Digitisation of land records: Govt sets June 2019 as deadline for completion of first phase
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has set a fresh deadline of June next year for the completion of the first phase of Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) which was started three years ago. The deadline has been set to complete scanning of all 6.6 crore revenue documents and the decision […]
Revive winter tuitions in Kashmir, PDP urges Governor
Srinagar: Calling upon the Governor Administration to fully revive the winter tuition introduced in the year 2015, senior PDP leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar said the initiative taken three years back needs the Governor’s overview at present. In a statement issued here, Akhtar expressed concern over the delay being done in providing the incentives […]
Committees set up for implementation of AB-PMJAY scheme in JK
Jammu: Three committees have been set up by the Jammu and Kashmir government for the implementation of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (AB-PMJAY) in the state. The Governor administration has accorded sanction for the constitution of the state grievance redressal committee (SGRC), district grievance redressal committee (DGRC) and coordination committee (CC) for implementation of […]
Sehrai denounces ‘arrest spree’
Srinagar: Condemning fresh arrest spree and detention of leaders and activists under PSA and their imprisonment in jails within and outside the Valley, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai Tuesday said that the detention of Kashmiri people is motivated by the prisoner’s politics. In a statement issued here, Sehrai said that the government and state machinery […]
