CM seeks project monitoring apparatus for ongoing developmental schemes
Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti today underscored the need for putting in place a project monitoring apparatus to evaluate the completion pace, funding and quality assurance of ongoing developmental projects in the State. The Chief Minister made these remarks while chairing a meeting to review some key infrastructural projects in the State. Mehbooba Mufti said the […]
Clashes erupt in Sopore after Friday prayers
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CM dismayed over low spending on Tribal affairs
Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti today expressed dismay over the low spending reported on Tribal welfare measures by the concerned Department in the State. Chairing a meeting to review the performance of the Tribal Affairs Department here, the Chief Minister directed abandoning the lackadaisical approach to execute Government schemes and bring in proactive approach to take […]
JKLF chief Yasin Malik condemns fresh wave of arrests in Valley
Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik, on Friday, condemned the fresh wave of arrests in Kashmir. Meanwhile on the call of resistance leadership, JKLF leaders and activists staged a peaceful protest against the United States declaring Syed Salahuddin as a “global terrorist” and fresh wave of arrests in Kashmir at Budshah […]
Understand Kashmir issue in its right context, Geelani urges people
Strongly denouncing electronic media for its biased reporting, negative campaign and carrying malicious and misleading propaganda against Kashmiris, Syed Ali Geelani, said these sleuths with stale ideology are representing fanatical forces, thus creating a state of intolerance. On Friday, Geelani referred media channels “Republic TV”, “Times Now”, “Aaj Tak”, “India Today” and “India TV” as […]
HC stays order accepting medicos resignation
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has stayed the impugned government order whereby the resignation of Associate Professor, surgical oncology department, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Dr Altaf Gauhar Haji, was accepted despite the former having withdrawn it. The High Court while passing the stay order observed: “The resignation letter, having been withdrawn by the […]
EJAC decries delay in implementation of medical
Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) President, Abdul Qayoom Wani Friday condemned the dillydallying attitude of government in implementing the medical insurance scheme for government employees. Wani in a statement issued here said that employees of the state are getting a meager amount of Rs 300 per month as medical allowances, which is good for nothing […]
Private Schools Association hails fast track work at DSEK
The Private Schools Association of Kashmir (PSAK) Friday hailed the initiation of fast track mode of working in the department of Education by virtue of which 350 pending files of private schools were cleared within a record time. The Association in a statement said that with the fast working, the education sector is moving […]
Union Agriculture Minister to visit JK from July 3
Principal Secretary of Agriculture Production Department, Sundeep Kumar Nayak, today convened a meeting to review logistical arrangements for the two-day visit of Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmer Welfare (FW), Radha Mohan Singh, along with a Parliamentary Delegation from July 3, 2017. Additional Director General of Police (Security), Directors of Agriculture, Sericulture, Command Area […]
Govt ruining horticulture sector, alleges NC leader
Senior NC leader Dr Bashir Veeri has strongly objected deliberate delay on the movement of trucks containing cherry loads from Kashmir to different parts of country on the pretext of Amarnath Yatra. “The move has caused damages in crores to cherry growers of Kashmir. the fruit industry is already gasping due to unrest and attitude […]