Guest Lecture and workshop for MTTM students organised at KU
Srinagar: An interactive session and a guest lecture was organized for the Tourism Students of Department of Management Studies University of Kashmir here on Saturday. In his welcome address, Head of the Department Prof Mushtaq A Darzi delivered a brief introduction about Prof (Dr) Sandeep Kulshreshtha, Director, Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM) […]
Police felicitate students, academics at Awantipora
Awantipora: Police on Saturday felicitated 12 students, research scholars and a teacher from south Kashmir at DPL Awantipora for achieving academic success and contributing towards literature and research. The awardees belong to Tral and Pampore areas. Police said that that the participants at the event expressed happiness and a sense of pride for being felicitated. […]
DDC chairs capacity building programme at Kupwara
KUPWARA: A day long training cum capacity building programme for Administrators, Panchayat Inspectors and secretary Panchayats of district Kupwara was held at town hall under the chairmanship of District Development Commissioner Kupwara, Anshul Garg. On the occasion various speakers and instructors spoke on different topics including role and responsibilities of secretary panchayats, social audit, maintenance […]
DG Social Welfare reviews progress, implementation of schemes at Baramulla
BARAMULLA: Director General Social Welfare Department Kashmir Rukhsana Gani Saturday convened a meeting of the officers of social welfare department and other concerned at Dak Bungalow Baramulla to review the progress besides implementation of various government sponsored schemes. During the review, threadbare discussion was held on the functioning of social welfare offices, orphanages, women shelters […]
DDC Budgam reviews status of Social Welfare schemes in district
Stresses on early registration of all genuine beneficiaries
BUDGAM: The District Development Commissioner, Budgam, Dr. Syed Sehrish Asgar Saturday chaired a meeting to review the status and progress of various centrally and state sponsored social welfare schemes under different categories belonging to economically and physically weaker sections and other privileged category. Among others, the meeting was attended by ADC Budgam, Mushtaq Ahmad Simnani, […]
ACR Anantnag reviews progress of dev projects of Sub-Division Kokernag
ANANTNAG: Assistant Commissioner Revenue (ACR) Anantnag Syed Yasir Sarurday reviewed the progress of various developmental projects of Sub Division Kokernag in a meeting here at Dak Bungalow Kokernag. The meeting was coordinated by SDM Kokernag Owais Mushtaq and attended by Tehsildars of Kokernag and Larnoo, Executive Engineer PMGSY Anantnag, AEEs of R&B, PHE & PDD, […]
Srinagar gets new fleet of electric buses
SRINAGAR: Governor Satya Pal Malik and Arvind Ganpat Sawant, Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Friday flagged off new JKSRTC Electric Buses in Srinagar here at SKICC. A total of 20 E-Buses will ply on different routes in Srinagar. Governor and other dignitaries also released a Coffee Table Book on Jammu & Kashmir […]
Kashmir hospitals flooded with deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria?
Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said hospitals in Kashmir were “flooded with deadly bacteria that are resistant to all antibiotics”. “Kashmir hospitals have turned into breeding grounds for resistant microbes endangering the safety of patients,” DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan said in a statement. Dr Nisar said that SMHS hospital was harboring […]
PDP will bounce back, form next government: Hanjura
Srinagar: PDP General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura Friday said that it was “certain that the PDP will once again bounce back and burst into the scene and form government once the polls are held in the state”. Hanjura was speaking at the daylong workers convention of PDP workers from Khanyar assembly segment. He said […]
Apologise for atrocities your grandfather committed on Kashmiris: Er Rasheed to Congress’s Vikramaditya
Srinagar: AIP President, Er Rasheed Friday termed as “shameful, distortion of facts and misleading” the recent remarks made by Vikramaditya Singh, Congress leader and grandson of late Maharaja Hari Singh. Singh had called the July 13, 1931 martyrs as “rapists, criminals and looters” in his recent tweet prompting the concerned Chief Judicial Magistrate in Jammu […]
