Vehicle collision in Reasi leaves 16 injured
Jammu: At least 16 persons including 14 pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh were injured on Tuesday in a head-on collision between two vehicles in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The accident took place near Sulla Park on the Reasi-Katra road when the two mini-buses, moving in opposite directions collided with each other, a […]
Div Com reviews preparations for special urban outreach programme being held in Srinagar
7-day programme being held between January 9 and 22
SRINAGAR: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan Tuesday reviewed the preparations for the special 7-day urban outreach programme being held in Srinagar city. The special outreach programme with similar format and purpose as that of the flagship Back to Village programme of the government is aimed at reviewing development needs of the Srinagar city and […]
Launch awareness drive to educate people about welfare schemes: Advisor Sharma to Admin
Several delegations, individuals meet Advisor, apprise him of various issues
SRINAGAR: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, K K Sharma today urged officials of various departments to launch awareness campaign to educate people about various welfare schemes. Speaking to scores of delegations at Grievance camp in Srinagar, the Advisor urged people to stay connected with the respective administrative units and get themselves educated about several centrally-sponsored schemes […]
PDP pays tribute to its founder Mufti Sayeed on his 4th death anniversary
Srinagar: The PDP on Monday paid tribute to its founder and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on his fourth death anniversary. Sayeed died on January 7, 2016 at AIIMS hospital in Delhi after being admitted there briefly. PDP general secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura described the the party founder as a […]
Restoration of Malshahi-Bagh water canal: Div Com directs to expedite work on war footing, double shift basis
SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan today directed concerned engineers to expedite restoration work on Malshahi- Bagh water canal on war footing and asked them to work in double shift. He directed the concerned officials to complete the restoration work by February 15. The Div Com was chairing a meeting to review the […]
Advisor Khan for grass-root level implementation of Govt schemes
Meets public delegations at Srinagar
SRINAGAR: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan today asked the concerned officers to ensure that all the Government schemes are implemented in letter and spirit at the grass-root levels. The Advisor said this during weekly outreach programme organized at Lieutenant Governor’s Grievance cell here. As many as 40 delegations and 150 persons met Advisor from […]
7 killed, 24 injured as bus falls into gorge in Rajouri
Jammu: Seven people were killed and 24 injured, some of them critically, when a bus skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Thursday, police said. The bus was on its way from Surankote to Jammu when the accident happened at Siot-Lambari in Rajouri district, they […]
Temperature drops across Kashmir, snowfall likely
Srinagar: A day after some respite, the minimum temperature across the valley dropped again with the MeT department predicting a spell of moderate to heavy snowfall in Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh from Wednesday onwards. However, there was improvement in the night temperature in Ladakh Union territory, an official of the Meteorological department here said. “A spell […]