2.9 million Children in India miss first dose of measles vaccine: UNICEF
New Delhi: India has 2.9 million children who have missed out on the first dose of measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017 despite over 80 per cent of immunisation coverage, the UNICEF said on Thursday. India, with its large annual birth cohort of 25 million, is followed by Pakistan and Indonesia – 1.2 million each, […]
Govt fails to provide libraries in schools, colleges
Recent survey says that 40 percent high schools do not have a library
Srinagar: The up gradation of the libraries and its culture in schools has always remained a distant dream in government educational institutions. Besides, the reading habit among the students has also failed to improve over the years. As per norms, the school education department is supposed provide proper library facilities to students at elementary level […]
Excelling in academics, school in Sopore village fails in facilities
Srinagar: Contradicting the tall claims of the successive regimes to fill in the infrastructural gaps in the educational institutions across the state, hundreds of schools across Jammu and Kashmir are functioning without permanent buildings. Not only SSA schools, scores of state-run schools are yet to get their permanent campus since their establishment in the state. […]
SSA Teachers allege delay in regularization by DSEK
Srinagar: In a bizarre move, the school education department has created a regional divide among SSA teachers by setting different yard sticks for the regularisation in the department as Grade II teachers. The SSA teachers in Jammu division have been given their regularisation orders months ago without seeking any additional formalities while as the teachers […]
Mysterious blast creates panic in Sopore
Sopore: A mysterious blast on Monday afternoon created panic in Sopore town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that the blast was heard near 179 battalion of the CRPF stationed at a camp at Iqbal Market Sopore. The blast caused fear and panic in the area with people thrown into a chaos. However, there […]
School operating from two rooms fails to attract new admissions
‘Even the rent for these two rooms is unpaid for years together’
Srinagar: Belying the tall claims of the school education department to revolutionize the education sector in J&K state, a government middle school in Budgam town continues to represent a blot on the face of the government. The Government Primary School (GPD) Chowdary Bagh is situated near the Baramulla-Banihal railway track in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. […]
Insensitive: JKBOSE agonizes students by delaying re-evaluation results
Srinagar: Despite the passage of around three months, the JK Board of School Education (BOSE) is yet to declare the re-evaluation result of the class 11th and 12th students. A group of students, who were accompanied by their parents, said most of them have obtained more than 90 percent marks in other subjects except the […]
Meet Asrar ul Haq who released his first book “Breeze” on Friday
Pulwama: Hailing from a remote Tral Bala village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, a young writer created history of sorts when he released his first book on Friday. Asrar ul Haq son of Sheikh Abdul Rashid resident of Tral bala (Upper town Tral) released his book ‘Breeze’ at a function organized at ‘Future Vision Model […]
Gang using fake guns for robberies busted in Sopore: Police
Sopore: The local police in Sopore Thursday claimed to have busted a gang of thieves who were allegedly using “fake” guns for carrying out robberies in the apple town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. SDPO Sopore Raja Majid told a press conference that a “gang using a wooden AK 47 looting people in parts of […]
Betrayal: Kashmiri students ditched once again
Aspirants asked to appear in outside state exam centres for NEET 2019
Srinagar: Kashmir based students have faced another road block after the National Testing Agency (NTA) has once again designated exam centres for the prestigious National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) 2019 outside the Valley. The students have been left bewildered as the NEET exams is scheduled for May 05 and the aspirants have got the admission […]