Local IAS officers need to serve the state, its people: Khursheed Ganai

Srinagar: Advisor to J&K Governor Khurshid Ahmad Ganai on Saturday said that local IAS officers can serve the state and its people in a much better way. He asked the officers to do away with arrogance while serving people of valley. The advisor was speaking at a function organized by Directorate of School Education Kashmir […]

Study proposes establishment of high quality trauma care centres in Valley

Srinagar: With pellet and bullet injuries being on the rise in Kashmir, a study conducted at SKIMS has impressed upon the need of establishing high-quality trauma care centres across the state to reduce the firearm-related morbidity and mortality, in addition to the establishment of an Advanced Trauma Centre in the Srinagar city. The study titled […]

Apathy: DSEK fails to utilize around 7 Cr sanctioned under central schemes

Srinagar: At a time when the state education department raises hue and cry over non-availability of funds to improve upon the services and infrastructure in the education sector, details have surfaced pointing towards an unspent amount of Rs 7 Crore by the department. “A whooping amount of more than Rs 7 Crore has remained unspent […]

Pak intensifies fight against tobacco and sugary beverages, imposes ‘sin tax’

Islamabad: Pakistan will soon impose a ‘sin tax’ on cigarettes and sugary beverages and that fund would be diverted to the health budget, Minister for National Health Services Aamer Mehmood Kiani has said. Speaking at a public health conference at the Health Services Academy, Kiani Tuesday said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was committed […]

SSA teachers resort to protests once again

Say all promises by government have proven hoax

Srinagar: The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers continue to hit streets as the government has failed to release their salary pending salary from last four months. The teachers also protested the government’s failure to regularize their services against substantive posts in the department. On Monday the SSA teachers under the banner of JK Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) […]

KU fails to conduct graduate level exams on time

Students allege inordinate delays are wasting their precious time

Srinagar: The authorities in Kashmir University (KU) have failed to streamline the examination system for undergraduate courses post introduction of the semester system exams in the colleges. Notably, the KU examination department has a huge liability of exams of under graduate courses which is now telling upon the career of hundreds of outgoing college students. […]

Eight years on, work on 100 college buildings fails to culminate

Srinagar: Signifying the poor performance of the higher education department, none of the college 100 odd college buildings have been completed in the year 2018. With the failure of authorities to expedite the construction of the college buildings, the students continue to take classes from make-shift arrangements. Notably, there are at least 100 degree colleges […]

Do some homework before claiming India to be secular country: Er Rasheed to Army chief

Handwara: Awami Itehaad Party (AIP) president, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh on Friday reacted to General Bipin Rawat’s remarks that Pakistan should become a secular state like India if it wants good relations, saying that while Bipin Rawat or anyone else is free to have his opinion but he must understand that Islam doesn’t allow discriminating […]