‘Financial restructuring of JKSPDC by 2019-20’
Jammu: Minister of State for Power Asiea Naqash Friday informed the House that the proposal for financial restructuring of Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC) to make it debt-free has been submitted to the Finance Department and the process is ikely to be completed by the year 2019-20. Replying to a question the […]
Work on CUK site at Tulmulla stopped on MHRD instructions: Govt
Jammu: Minister for Education Altaf Bukhari Friday informed the Legislative Assembly that the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (UMHRD) has requested the state government for providing alternate land for the construction of the permanent campus of Central University Kashmir. Responding to a calling attention notice the Minister said following the communication from MHRD, the […]
Augmentation of 5 Receiving Stations underway in Kangan, says Dy CM
Jammu: Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Nirmal Singh Friday informed the Legislative Assembly that the government has taken up augmentation work of five Receiving Stations viz., 10 MVA Wusan, 6.3 MVA Manigam, 10 MVA Kangan, 5 MVA Surfarraw and 3.15 MVA Gagangeer feeding power supply to Kangan Constituency. He said the upgradation of these installations would […]
Legislature Members Pension (Amendment) Bill passed
Jammu: The legislative Council today passed a “Bill to amend the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature Members’ Pension Act, 1984 (LA Private Members’ Bill No 25 of 2018) for consideration. Earlier, Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura on behalf of Minister for Revenue and Parliamentary Affairs, Abdul Rehman Veeri today moved the bill for […]
Governor reviews SKUAST-K achievements
Jammu: Prof. Nazeer Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, met Governor N.N. Vohra, Chancellor of the University, at the Raj Bhavan. Prof. Nazeer Ahmad informed Governor about various academic and research initiatives and achievements of the University which include: in Session 2018 the admission to Undergraduate/Post-Graduate and Ph.D. has increased […]
Maternal care services in peripheries show marked improvement
Srinagar: With 50 per cent of Public Health Centres (PHCs) functioning without the facility of labour rooms, the health department has done well as around 4075 deliveries were carried out in peripheries in the month of January, out of which 2680 were carried out normally. The monthly work done statement available with the Directorate of […]
Pulwama villagers accuse govt of ignoring their plight
Pulwama: Inhabitants of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district here have accused the successive regimes for failing to come up to their expectations, saying that the authorities have failed to redress their genuine grievances. The residents of Gulzarpora village in Awantipora Tehsil, which is merely eight kilometers away from Tehsil headquarter is without proper road connection, water, […]
Hanging of Guru, Butt was murder of justice, says JRL
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Friday said that hanging of Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru is like a black page of international judicial history. “A human being was secretly put to gallows on petty pretext of satisfying collective conscience of people, without giving him a last chance to meet his family and handing […]
Withdrawing FIR has become an industry for many in Kashmir: Er Rasheed
Handwara: Awami Itehaad Party (AIP) president and MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh on Friday challenged Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to prove him wrong for the reason that even withdrawing FIR has become an industry for many in the entire Kashmir. According to the statement issued here, AIP spokesman said that the protests continued till […]
Fire damages two shops in Sopore
Sopore: Two shops were damaged at Botingoo area in North Kashmir’s Sopore on Thursday evening, police said. According to reports massive fire damaged the two shops at Botingoo area, however fire was brought under control after fire service team reached the spot. The shops gutted in fire mishap belonged to Aadil Ahmed Bhat resident of […]
