Former JK interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma dies
New Delhi: Administrator of Lakshadweep Dineshwar Sharma passed away on Friday due to lung-related complications, officials said. He was 66. Sharma, a former director of the Intelligence Bureau, was appointed as the administrator of Lakshadweep in October 2019. Prior to this, he was an interlocutor for the Centre to Jammu and Kashmir. Prime Minister Narendra […]
Mughal Road closed due to snowfall
Poonch: The Mughal road, connecting Shopian and Poonch districts, has been closed due to fresh snowfall along the thoroughfare, officials said on Friday. DySP Traffic Rajouri-Poonch Zabir said that the road has been closed as it was snowing near Peer Ki Gali. “The traffic has been closed on both sides as a precautionary measure.The road […]
JK, Ladakh to have Waqf boards soon: Union Minister
New Delhi: Waqf Boards will soon be established in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, and the process for it has already started, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Friday. After chairing a Central Waqf Council meeting here, Naqvi in a statement said that Waqf Boards will be established in […]
SARFAESI Act: Allow banks to take physical possession of mortgaged properties
Srinagar: The administration has directed the district magistrates to clear all pending applications filed by banks and financial institutions for taking over physical possessions of mortgaged properties of defaulting borrow within a week’s time. In a communique, Financial Commissioner Finance Arun Mehta has written to all district magistrates of the UT to dispose all pending […]
Govt schools record 30,000 fresh admissions in one week
Srinagar: At least 30,000 students of Kashmir valley have fetched fresh admissions in government schools in the past one week. Top officials of Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK said that in past week more than 30,000 students have got admissions in various government schools across ten districts of the region. Besides fresh admissions, the […]
COVID-19: 12 more patients die, 544 test positive in JK
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Friday recorded 12 deaths due to COVID-19 taking the death toll to 1,730 while as 544 positive cases were reported taking the tally of positive cases to 112,256. Of the exact number of 112,256 cases, 66,794 are from Kashmir and 45,462 from Jammu division. Officials said that among 544 new […]
Protesting farmers call for ‘Bharat Bandh’ on Dec 8
New Delhi: Hardening their position ahead of the fifth round of talks with the government, agitating farmers on Friday announced a ‘Bharat Bandh’ on December 8 and threatened to occupy toll plazas on that day. Addressing a press conference, farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chadoni said if the Centre does not accept their demands during Saturday’s […]
Don’t label protestors as ‘Khalistanis’, ‘anti-nationals’: Editors Guild to media
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India (EGI) on Friday expressed concerns over the news coverage of the farmers’ protests in Delhi, saying certain sections of the media were delegitimising the stir by labelling them “Khalistanis” and “anti-nationals” without any evidence. This goes against the tenets of responsible and ethical journalism, and such actions compromise […]
Coronavirus outbreak: China testing blunders hampered early response: Report
Wuhan (China): Secrecy and cronyism at China’s top disease control agency led to widespread test shortages and flaws that hampered the early response to the coronavirus outbreak, an Associated Press investigation has found. China’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention gave test kit designs and distribution rights exclusively to three then-obscure Shanghai companies with which […]
Govt considering resumption of 4G internet services in JK: BJP leader
Srinagar: Syed Zafar Islam, the national spokesman of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rajya Sabha Member Party, Thursday said that Centre was actively considering the resumption of 4-G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir and the high level probe into the Roshni Scam will catch all big fish who grabbed government land illegally. Addressing a […]
