Added on October 21, 2020
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Jammu: The All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) on Tuesday welcomed the recent amendments in the J&K Panchayati Raj Act and said the people of the Union Territory were waiting for over 70 years to see “real empowerment of local bodies”. The premier body of elected panchayat representatives cautioned the panches and sarpanches to […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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Srinagar: Days after the Government of India amended “The Jammu & Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act-1989” for establishing elected district development councils (DDCs), the authorities have notified 280 proposed constituencies of DDCs in the Union Territory. The delimitation proposals notifying proposed DDC constituencies along with their territorial limits have been put in public domain by all […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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Wayanad (Kerala): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed the ED questioning National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, accusing the Centre of using its probe agencies as political weapons and saying many, including himself, were facing “this assault”. The Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister for over six hours in […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday slammed the government over the ED questioning National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, alleging that “naked intimidatory tactics” were being used by the Centre to make the former JK chief minister “fall in line”. The Enforcement Directorate had on Monday questioned the former Union minister for over […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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Has left behind three children, wife
Bijbehara: On Monday evening Inspector Mohammad Ashraf was planning to meet his parents who are putting up with his brother, however the meeting did not take place. Ashraf was shot minutes before he could leave for his brother’s residence. Pertinently, inspector Mohammed Ashraf Bhat who was recently promoted to the rank of an Inspector was […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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Says govt’s media policy should be forward-looking professional document
Srinagar: Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) regrets the sealing of the Kashmir Times by the Estates Department. The quarter that was allotted to the newspaper was the office of the Jammu newspaper’s Kashmir bureau since the early 1990s. The Guild believes that the government should have followed the due process of law, a statement issued here […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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Srinagar: A 38-year-old woman was among eight more people who succumbed to covid-19 during the last 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the fatality count to 1399. Among the victims five were from Kashmir Valley and three from Jammu region, officials said. They said that the 38-year-old woman from Rainawari Srinagar died at SKIMS […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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Leh: The campaigning for elections to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh ended on Tuesday evening, 48 hours before the first democratic exercise in the region which was carved out of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state and granted Union Territory status last year. Despite the lurking threat due to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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Says all must be cautious during festivities
New Delhi: With the onset of festival season, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made an impassioned appeal to people to follow COVID-19 guidelines, saying this is not the time to be careless as the virus is still around and even a small negligence can dampen the festive spirit. In his seventh address to the […]
Added on October 21, 2020
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SRINAGAR: In a first in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Gita Mittal Tuesday inaugurated a Family Court at District Court Complex Srinagar. Addressing the inaugural function, Chief Justice observed that the objective of establishing family court in J&K is to ensure speedy justice and inexpensive relief […]
