Admin initiates major project for conservation of environment

SRINAGAR: The Srinagar district administration has initiated a major environmental project around the Jhelum river. The project comprises multiple components ranging from soil and moisture conservation to plantation to environmental education in schools to research-based planning and impact assessment. This was informed in a meeting of convened here under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Srinagar […]

Covid-19 management initiatives reviewed in Anantnag

JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Khan, Thursday convened a meeting at Civil Secretariat, Jammu to review and assess the management and initiatives being taken up to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Anantnag district. Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag, K.K Sidha, SSP, Anantnag, ADC Anantnag, ACD Anantnag, Nodal Officers for Covid-19 and other district officers attended […]

Centre assures full support for evacuating JK residents stranded abroad

Jammu: The Centre has assured the Jammu and Kashmir administration of full support in evacuating the union territory residents stranded abroad due to the coronavirus lockdown, an official spokesman said on Thursday. A repatriation flight for the J and K residents from Muscat to Srinagar has been scheduled on June 2, he said. It was […]

Transgenders in JK to get financial assistance from govt

JAMMU: The Administrative Council (AC) which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu, accorded sanction to the extension of coverage of J&K Integrated Social Security Scheme (ISSS) to transgenders, by including them as beneficiaries under the Scheme. Earlier, the transgenders did not qualify for financial benefits under ISSS. However, with this […]

Six persons discharged from quarantine center test positive, probe ordered

Pulwama: District authorities here on Thursday ordered a time-bound inquiry regarding discharging six persons from a quarantine center in Tral without waiting for their test report which came out to be positive later. Official sources said that a committee headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner has been constituted with Deputy CMO and BDO Tral are its […]

Admission process in Polytechnics in JK revamped

JAMMU: The Administrative Council (AC) which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu, approved the proposal of the Technical Education Department bringing in key reforms in the department. The AC accorded sanction to the change in nomenclature, structural and procedural reforms and revamping of admission process to the polytechnics. The decision […]

Police recovers minor girl, kidnapper arrested

Srinagar: Police today claimed to have recovered a minor girl and also arrested her kidnapper within 4hrs in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday. A police spokesman said that a complaint was filed that a minor girl (name with held) has been kidnapped by one Mohammad Amin Ganie son of Ali Mohammad Ganie resident of […]

JK gets permanent bench of CAT

Srinagar: The Government of India on Thursday notified constitution of a permanent bench of Central Administratrative Tribunal for J&K and Ladakh Union Territories. According to notification issued by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension, the Jammu bench will look into service matters of both J&K and Ladakh UTs. In another notification, the ministry said […]

COVID-19 casts shadow on ‘Kashmir World Film Festival’

Organisers say the festival has been postponed

Srinagar: Due to the prevailing pandemic of COVID-19 across the World the ‘Management Committee’ of ‘Kashmir World Film Festival’ has taken a decision of postponing the 7 days “5th” Edition of the festival, which was scheduled to start from 10th June 2020. The decision was taken after the consultation with the members of ‘Advisory Board’ […]