Atal Dullo reviews winter preparation for COVID-19 containment

Stresses on focused sampling, contact tracing

JAMMU: Financial Commissioner, Health & Medical Education, Atal Dulloo Thursday chaired a high level meeting to take stock of the COVID-19 containment measures in the Union Territory for the winter season. During the meeting through video conferencing, the Financial Commissioner emphasized upon the Chief Medical Officers for effective focused sampling and contact tracing in all […]

Woman injured during cross border shelling in Kathua

Jammu: Pakistani Rangers opened fire and shelled border out posts (BoPs) and hamlets along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, leaving a woman injured, officials said on Thursday. The Pakistani troops targeted several BoPs and few hamlets in Manyari, Sapwal and Karol Krishna on late Wednesday night, prompting an effective retaliation by […]

Conducting official work: Ladakh civil secretariat launches e-office solution

Leh: Ladakh on Wednesday launched an e-office solution for conducting official work in its civil secretariat, directorates and other offices, according to an order. Commissioner-Secretary General Administration Department (GAD), Ladakh, Ajeet Kumar Sahu issued a circular regarding the implementation of e-office in the secretariat of the Union Territory administration of Ladakh. As per the order, […]

Minor dies in a road mishap in Kupwara

Kupwara: A five-year-old boy has succumbed to his injuries a day after hit by a maruti car here at Hanjipora area of Trehgam in north-Kashmir’s Kupwara district. A police official said that a boy identified as Wasir Ahmad Wani (5) son of Abdul Rashid Wani residence of Hanjipora Trehgam was hit by a Maruti vehicle […]

Pulwama villagers face dark nights as transformer develops snag

Pulwama: The residents of Rakh village in Litter tehsil of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district have been left in the lurch as the authorities have failed to repair their damaged transformer that according to them has developed technical snag 10 days back. Inhabitants said that power development department has miserably failed to repair their transformer fully […]

Legal literacy can transform people’s lives: Prof Talat

2-day orientation programme begins at Kashmir University

Srinagar: Enhancing legal literacy at grassroots can go a long way in transforming the lives of people, Vice-Chancellor of University of Kashmir Prof Talat Ahmad said on Wednesday. Inaugurating a two-day legal literacy orientation programme, organised by the varsity’s State Resource Centre as part of its Legal Literacy Project (LLP), Prof Talat said that equipping […]

BJP leader seeks spl tribunal to probe ‘crimes against minorities’ Writes to Lt Guv Sinha

Jammu: Senior BJP leader Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo urged J-K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday to form a special tribunal to probe crimes against minorities, and issue an ordinance to set up a board for management and preservation of temples and shrines in Kashmir Valley. Chrungoo, in-charge of the Jammu & Kashmir BJP’s department of […]

‘Gupkar Gang’ remark shows India in poor light: Soz

Srinagar: Congress leader Saifuddin Soz on Wednesday said by describing the alliance of mainstream political parties of Jammu and Kashmir as a “gang”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has shown India and its democracy in poor light. In a tweet on Tuesday, Shah asserted that Jammu and Kashmir has been and will always remain an […]

CS reviews status of sports infrastructure in JK

JAMMU: Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam Wednesday chaired a meeting to review the sports facilities being developed in Jammu and Kashmir. The Chief Secretary impressed upon the Youth Services and Sports Department to seek assistance of the leading sports personalities of the country and UT in providing training to the next generation of sportspersons […]