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Launch awareness drive to educate people about welfare schemes: Advisor Sharma to Admin

Launch awareness drive to educate people about welfare schemes: Advisor Sharma to Admin

Several delegations, individuals meet Advisor, apprise him of various issues

SRINAGAR: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, K K Sharma today urged officials of various departments to launch awareness campaign to educate people about various welfare schemes. Speaking to scores of delegations at Grievance camp in Srinagar, the Advisor urged people to stay connected with the respective administrative units and get themselves educated about several centrally-sponsored schemes […]

 Press Trust of India

PDP pays tribute to its founder Mufti Sayeed on his 4th death anniversary

PDP pays tribute to its founder Mufti Sayeed on his 4th death anniversary

Srinagar: The PDP on Monday paid tribute to its founder and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on his fourth death anniversary. Sayeed died on January 7, 2016 at AIIMS hospital in Delhi after being admitted there briefly. PDP general secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura described the the party founder as a […]

 Press Trust of India

JK Students Association condemns JNU violence

Dehradun:The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association on Monday condemned the attack on JNU students, including JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh, and demanded action against the perpetrators. “Thrashing of students and teachers at JNU without any rhyme and reason is strongly condemnable. We condemn it in the harshest of words,” Nasir Khuehami, the spokesperson of the Association, […]

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Restoration of Malshahi-Bagh water canal: Div Com directs to expedite work on war footing, double shift basis

Restoration of Malshahi-Bagh water canal: Div Com directs to expedite work on war footing, double shift basis

SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan today directed concerned engineers to expedite restoration work on Malshahi- Bagh water canal on war footing and asked them to work in double shift. He directed the concerned officials to complete the restoration work by February 15. The Div Com was chairing a meeting to review the […]

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Advisor Khan for grass-root level implementation of Govt schemes

Meets public delegations at Srinagar

SRINAGAR: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan today asked the concerned officers to ensure that all the Government schemes are implemented in letter and spirit at the grass-root levels. The Advisor said this during weekly outreach programme organized at Lieutenant Governor’s Grievance cell here. As many as 40 delegations and 150 persons met Advisor from […]

 Press Trust of India

7 killed, 24 injured as bus falls into gorge in Rajouri

7 killed, 24 injured as bus falls into gorge in Rajouri

Jammu: Seven people were killed and 24 injured, some of them critically, when a bus skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Thursday, police said. The bus was on its way from Surankote to Jammu when the accident happened at Siot-Lambari in Rajouri district, they […]

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Temperature drops across Kashmir, snowfall likely

Temperature drops across Kashmir, snowfall likely

Srinagar: A day after some respite, the minimum temperature across the valley dropped again with the MeT department predicting a spell of moderate to heavy snowfall in Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh from Wednesday onwards. However, there was improvement in the night temperature in Ladakh Union territory, an official of the Meteorological department here said. “A spell […]

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Four interim parking spaces identified for traders in Srinagar city centre

Measure aimed at minimising inconvenience to traders in the area: DC Srinagar

SRINAGAR: In the wake of the High Court orders disallowing roadside parking aimed at checking traffic congestion the Srinagar administration has identified four interim spaces around the city centre where traders can park their vehicles. The measure is aimed at minimising inconvenience to traders facing parking difficulties following the High Court order. The interim parking […]

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Kashmir Press Club demands immediate restoration of internet for media fraternity

Kashmir Press Club demands immediate restoration of internet for media fraternity

Srinagar: The Kashmir Press Club on Tuesday demanded immediate restoration of internet services to the media in the valley as the clampdown on internet has severely crippled the functioning of the fraternity and threatened suspension of publications. Kashmir Press Club held a meeting at the club in which all editors’ bodies and journalist associations unanimously demanded […]

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High Court quashes PSA against five stone pelters in Kashmir

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday quashed the Public Safety Act (PSA) against five persons who were arrested on charges of stone pelting recently. Justice Ali Mohammed Magray and Justice Sanjeev Kumar quashed the detention orders after hearing the counsel for the government and the detainees in separate cases. While Justice Magray quashed […]