Rank all skill institutions on the basis of placements, feedback: CS

SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta Tuesday urged upon the officers of Skill Development Department (SDD) to create a mechanism of ranking their institutions on the basis of placements made by them in addition to feedback from students about the course content delivery. He made these remarks in a meeting held to take stock […]

Ghulam Nabi Azad tests Covid positive

Srinagar: Former chief minister and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. In a tweet, Azad said, “I have tested Covid positive today and am under home quarantine.” Of late there has been an upward trend in the number of Covid cases being reported daily in the country. There are, […]

JK reports 25 fresh covid-19 cases

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s Covid-19 tally went up to 454545 after 25 more people tested positive for the virus, while the death toll rose to 4754, officials said on Tuesday. They said that 18 cases were reported Jammu, six from Srinagar, and one from Udhampur districts respectively. Among the total cases, 166654 are from Jammu […]

Eastern Ladakh standoff- Actions credited to jawans, jointness of armed forces: Gen Naravane

New Delhi: The action that armed forces took during the Ladakh standoff in 2020 was a “whole of nation effort” and credited to the coordination among the three services and the strong will of the Indian jawans who held their posts despite harsh weather conditions at such high altitudes, former Army chief Gen (retired) M […]

Northern Army Commander visits Ladakh

Will review operational preparedness

Leh: Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Monday arrived in Leh on a four-day long visit to Ladakh to review the operational preparedness of troops in the union territory, officials said. He is also scheduled to visit Siachen sector, the world’s highest battlefield. Lt Gen Dwivedi arrived in Leh and was received by […]

Prez poll: Non-BJP parties mulling Yashwant Sinha over as possible nominee

Kolkata: Non-BJP parties are mulling former union minister Yashwant Sinha over as a possible joint candidate for the upcoming presidential election, a senior Trinamool Congress leader said on Monday. The name of the former BJP leader who joined the TMC last year has been proposed as a presidential poll candidate by a few opposition parties […]

Panchayats should converge on all Agriculture related schemes: CS

Approves action plans for several Central schemes

Srinagar: Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta on Monday impressed upon the officers of Agriculture Department to make Panchayat a unit of convergence for all agriculture related schemes. He was chairing the State Food Security Mission Executive Committee (SFSMEC) and State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) like NFSM, NMAET-ATMA and RKVY. The […]

NIA conducts searches in JK

Arrests 4 for harbouring Pak-based JeM terrorists

Srinagar: The NIA on Monday conducted searches at seven locations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama and arrested four people for allegedly harbouring terrorists of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). The case relates to the terrorist activities of the JeM in South Kashmir, during which two terrorists, including a Pakistani national, were killed by security forces […]

Three terrorists killed in two encounters

Srinagar: Three terrorists were gunned down in two separate encounters with security forces in Kashmir on Monday, taking the number of ultras killed in the past 24 hours to seven, police said. A police spokesperson said two terrorists were killed in a fresh exchange of fire in the ongoing encounter in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, […]