Public transporters stage protest in Sgr, seek resumption of services
Srinagar: Kashmir transporters on Thursday staged a protest to urge the government to allow the local transporters resume their services too as they have faced huge losses since lockdown was enforced in the Valley in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic Scores of transporters under the banner of All Kashmir Transporters Welfare Association (AKTWA) headed by […]
Trooper ends life in Awantipora
Srinagar: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) man on Thursday committed suicide in Awantipora area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. An official said that an ASI Moti Ram of 178 battalion, who was deployed for convey duty at DIG range awantipora, has committed suicide. Junaid Khan, CRPF PRO confirmed the incident saying that they are […]
HC asks J&K Bank to postpone online registration for 350 PO, 1500 BA posts
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued a notice to government over the cancellation of the selection process for filling up the posts of probationary officers and banking associates in the J&K Bank. A bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey also ordered the J&K Bank to postpone till further orders the date of availability […]
AC approves accrual based double entry accounting system
JAMMU: The Administrative Council (AC), which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu, accorded sanction to adoption of the Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Accounting and Budgeting Rules, 2020, to facilitate implementation of Accrual Based Double Entry Accounting System (ABDEAS) in Urban Local Bodies. The adoption of the manual by the Municipal […]
Family of missing Bemina youth stage protest, seek his whereabouts
Srinagar: The family and relatives of Srinagar youth on Wednesday staged a protest, demanding authorities to help them in tracing their son who is missing since intervening night of June 14-15. Scores of family members and relatives of Hilal Ahmad Dar, son of Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Dar of Bemina Srinagar assembled at Srinagar’s press enclave. They […]
Sgr-Kargil Highway through, SSP Gbl refute claims of its closure.
Ganderbal: Police on Wednesday refuted the reports about the closure of Civilian traffic on Srinagar-Kargil highway. SSP Ganderbal, Khalil Ahmad Poswal in a tweet said that Srinagar – Kargil NHW is open for vehicular movement. “Only Covid-19 protocol for Inter – UT movement is essentially required to be adopted,” SSP tweeted. Earlier, a news went […]
Minor drowns in Rafiabad village
Sopore: A nine year old girl drowned in Nallah at Chatloora in Rafiabad village in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday evening. Reports said that the minor identified as Humaira Farooq daughter of Farooq Ahmad Bhat of Chatloora Rafiabad slipped in the Nallah at her village and drowned. However, locals retrieved her body from the […]
ACB files charge sheet against govt employee
Jammu: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday filed a charge sheet in a court here against a government employee for alleged misappropriation of foodgrains and gunny bags in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, an official said. The charge sheet was filed against the then Junior Assistant Storekeeper, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) department, […]
Anti-China protests staged in Jammu
Jammu: Anti-China protests were held at multiple locations in Jammu region on Wednesday over the killing of 20 Indian soldiers in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley, with agitators demanding revenge, boycott of Chinese products and severing trade ties. They torched China’s flag, effigy and Chinese products amid high-pitch sloganeering calling for a strong response to the action […]
Agri dept rechristened as Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare Department
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Administration on Wednesday approved the proposal of the Agriculture Production Department to change its nomenclature to ‘Agriculture Production and Farmer Welfare Department’ with a greater focus on farmers’ welfare. The decision to change the nomenclature is in line with the Centre renaming Agriculture Ministry as ‘Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and […]