Administration recovers 183 acres of encroached land

Jammu: The administration has retrieved over 183 acres of prime state land that was encroached by several people in Doda and Reasi districts of Jammu region, officials said on Friday. In their biggest ever drive in Doda district, teams from the revenue department recovered over 98 acres of state and Roshni land in the last […]

Police destroy 24 kg RDX, 71 hand grenades in Reasi

Jammu: Police on Friday destroyed 24 kilograms of RDX and 71 hand grenades seized during various counter-militancy operations in Reasi district in the last 12 years, officials said on Friday. Since 2009, the special operations group had seized grenades, improvised explosive devices along with fuses and remote controls, detonators and RDX in 15 militancy cases […]

JK has lowest fertility rate in India: Survey

Srinagar: The National Family Health Survey for 2019-21 has revealed that J&K has lowest fertility rate in India and there has been a decline of 0.6 percent fertility rate in J&K since 2015-16 when the last survey was conducted by NFHS. Experts in Jammu and Kashmir believe that there are many reasons for infertility but […]

Ensure timely, satisfactory response to public grievances: ADC to officers

BARAMULLA: On the directions of LG’s Administration, for making the existing grievance redressal mechanism more effective and satisfactory, the Additional District Development Commissioner Baramulla, Aijaz Abdullah Saraf Friday chaired a meeting of the concerned departments at Dak Bungalow here to take stock of the status of online public grievances. While addressing the meeting, The ADDC […]

New COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa: Scientists

Johannesburg: A new COVID-19 variant has been detected in South Africa which has infected 22 people and experts are working overtime to understand what its potential implications could be, scientists said here on Thursday. Twenty-two positive cases of the new variant – called B.1.1.529 – have been recorded in South Africa following genomic sequencing collaborations […]

Differing virus measures put free travel at risk: EU

Brussels: The European Union warned member countries Thursday that they risk undermining the 27-nation bloc’s COVID-19 travel and access certificate system with new restrictions that some are putting in place to try to thwart a surge in cases. EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said there is an obvious risk that differing approaches between countries could […]

Lt Guv launches ‘smart schools’ in Tribal areas

Says our priority is to secure the future of tribal children

JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Thursday dedicated the UT government’s ambitious project of transforming 200 Schools into Smart Schools in Tribal areas at a cost of Rs 40 crores, an official spokesman said here. The modernization of Smart Schools will be executed in two phases. In the first phase, works related to 100 schools will […]

Govt has made Hajj pilgrimage comfortable, transparent: Union Minister

Mumbai:The annual Haj has become more comfortable and convenient for Indian Muslims due to various important reforms in the entire pilgrimage process undertaken by the Modi government over the last seven years, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Thursday. He said effective and far-sighted reforms by the government such as abolition […]

Al-Qaeda related case: NIA carries out searches in Kashmir

Srinagar/New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out searches at five locations in Kashmir in connection with its investigation into a case related to an Al-Qaeda group’s planning to launch terror attacks in India, an official said. The case was initially registered in Lucknow by Uttar Pradesh’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on July […]