Lack of basic facilities: Education department ropes in district administration to equip government schools

Srinagar: The school education department has roped in the district administration to equip the government schools across the state with all basic facilities of electricity, toilets and drinking water. In this regard, the government has constituted district level committees headed by concerned deputy commissioners to achieve 100 percent target of saturation of all these facilities […]

Respite: GOI alters rules for conducting exams of physically challenged candidates

Srinagar: In a significant development, the ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India (GoI) has amended the guidelines for conducting written exams of candidates with bench mark disabilities. In this regard the department has shot a letter to all the universities for “strict implementation” of the guidelines as per the new amendments made […]

Let it end please, say people as tension escalates after air strikes

Srinagar: Unease and uncertainty might have become the subtext of the conflict that underscores their lives but thousands of people across Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday voiced one hope as tensions between India and Pakistan spiralled after IAF jets struck a JeM camp — let it end here please. Across the Kashmir Valley and in […]

MHRD seeks improvement in educational standards in JK

Srinagar: The Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) has put the school education department on radar for improving the educational scenario in the two aspirational district- Kupwara and Baramulla. The two districts in north Kashmir have been selected for aspirational districts program of NITI Aayog, launched by PMO in January 2018. The MHRD has […]

Rumours ran amok on Saturday, create panic among people

Srinagar: It was a rumor filled day on Saturday as people in most areas of Srinagar city and other areas were seen running in panic and trying to understand the situation that has led to the panic all around. Mainly it was the additional deployments of central forces and subsequent crackdown on leaders from separatist […]

Attack on Kashmiri students: PSAJ&K steps in, says will accommodate students who came back

Srinagar: The students who faced expulsion or rustication from the colleges and universities in outside J&K state will be facilitated by the Private Schools Association Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJ&K) in collaboration with the coaching centres association Kashmir (CCAK). This was stated by the president PSAJ&K G N Var in a press conference held at Srinagar. […]

Critical Care Ambulance service will soon be a reality in JK

Service to be started from April with a fleet of 416 ambulances

Service to be started from April with a fleet of 416 ambulances

Diploma courses offered at GMC converted into degree courses

Health Ministry directs MCI to provide approval

Srinagar: In a move to improve the academics at Govt Medical College (GMC), Srinagar to level next in various departments, the Union Health Ministry has nodded the conversion of various diploma courses at GMC, Srinagar into full-fledged degree courses, while asking the MCI to consider the decision. In a letter, a copy of which is […]

Pulwama gunfight deprives two minor daughters of father’s love

Pulwama: The pain and agony over the killing of their father has tormented the hearts of two minor daughters of the slain civilian who was killed during a gunfight that claimed nine lives on Monday in Pinglena village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The two minor daughters of slain civilian who according to police was […]