KWJA expresses concern over police harassment of journalists

Srinagar: The Kashmir Working Journalists Association (KWJA) has expressed concern about the repeated incidents of harassment and thrashing of journalists by the police. The KWJA said that a young journalist, Kaiser Andrabi was thrashed inside police station Fateh Kadal on Friday- second such incident in the past two weeks, The scribe, the KWJA said, had […]

Training for 7th Economic Census conducted at Budgam

DC calls for coordinated efforts for quality census

BUDGAM: District Commissioner (DC), Budgam Dr Syed Sehrish Asgar, who is also the Chairperson District Level Consultative Committee for 7th Economic Census Saturday inaugurated one-day preparatory-cum-training workshop on district level training of trainees. The trainees consist of enumerators, data collectors and census supervisors. While giving details about the CSC based 7th economic census, chief coordinator […]

DDC Pulwama hands over appointment orders to teachers

PULWAMA: District Development Commissioner (DDC) Pulwama Dr Syed Abid Rashid Shah Saturday handed over appointment orders to newly selected teachers of the District here at DC office Complex Pulwama. While congratulating, DDC said that teachers are the nation builders and should inculcate value based education, inquisitiveness and scientific temperament among the students He emphasized them […]

DDC Anantnag reviews education sector

ANANTNAG: The District Development Commissioner (DDC) Anantnag, Khalid Jahangir Saturday chaired a meeting to review the achievements of the education department in the district. CEO Anantnag, DEPO, all the ZEOs, Principals of the Higher Secondary Schools and Headmasters of High Schools of the district attended the meeting. On the occasion, the DDC stated that since […]

Grievance cell established in Pulwama for ‘PM- KISAN’

PULWAMA: Department of Agriculture Pulwama has established a grievance cell for the farmers of the district to look into the grievances with regard to the matters related to PM- KISAN. In this regard, farmers are requested to register their complaints on mobile No: 8825075455 or can send complaints on email id pmkisanpulwama@gmail.com. Hajj orientation cum […]

10 bovine smugglers arrested, 92 animals seized

Jammu-The police foiled several bids to smuggle bovines from Jammu region to Kashmir valley and arrested 10 persons in this regard, officials said Saturday, adding 92 animals were seized. A police team intercepted two trucks on a highway near Ban area in Jammu and found 27 bovines were being smuggled to Kashmir valley, they said. […]

Drug & Food Control Organization brought under one command and control

SRINAGAR: The state administrative council (SAC) has approved re-organization of the Drugs & Food Control Organization (D&FCO), J&K into a single line command to secure effective Drugs and Food Regulation under a unified command without any financial commitment. As per the decision, the post of Commissioner of Food Safety, J&K has been re-designated as Commissioner, […]

Man found dead in Bandipora’s forests

Bandipora: A young man who had gone missing on Friday afternoon in Doban Onagam village of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district was found dead in upper reaches of Doban area of district on Saturday, police said. Police sources said that Chachee Chowan son of Rajwali Chowan, a resident of Doban village had gone to the nearby […]

Non local driver dies in Army unit

Kupwara: A civil driver who had arrived in the valleys remotest district along with Army supplies from Himachal Pradesh died of heart attack on Thursday night in an Army unit at Pangzam in Kupwara district. An official said that the driver was brought to SDH Kupwara for postmortem. “It is believed that he had died […]