ACB sleuths arrest RDD employee while taking bribe in Budgam
Anti corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested an employee of Block development officer (BDO) Chadoora Budgam in central Kashmir. According to Kashmir News Service Correspondent CIC Operator in BDO office Chadoora was caught red handed while accepting the bribe of rupees 4400/= for release of payment under SBM. The employee has been indentified as Hilal […]
Navin chairs SLEC Meeting of MIDH
Principal Secretary Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal and Sheep Husbandry departments, Navin Kumar Choudhary today chaired a State Level Empowered Committee (SLEC) meeting of Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) here today. The committee approved an annual action plan worth Rs 75 crore for the holistic development of Horticulture sector in Jammu and Kashmir for the […]
Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall kill 8 in Arunachal Pradesh
A series of landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed eight people in 24 hours in Arunachal Pradesh. While in Papumpare district, a family of four, including a baby, was buried alive in Tigdo village in Doimukh, a mudslide killed four others in Modirijo village in Itanagar Capital Complex. Earlier in May, three people had […]
Delhi Court Grants Bail To 82 Bangladeshi Nationals Who Attended Tablighi Jamaat
A Delhi court Friday granted bail to 82 Bangladeshi nationals who were chargesheeted for attending Tablighi Jamaat congregation in the national capital for allegedly violating visa conditions, indulging in missionary activities illegally and violating government guidelines, issued in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur granted the relief to the foreigners on […]
WHO launches probe into its pandemic response
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation, which faced fierce US criticism over its handling of the coronavirus crisis, launched an independent panel on Thursday to review its response to the pandemic. The Independent panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response will be headed by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson […]
Australia must tour England for cricket’s health, says Langer
MELBOURNE: Australia must tour England for the ‘health of world cricket’ and let their top players compete in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) if it goes ahead, head coach Justin Langer has said. Australia are slated to tour England for limited overs series in September despite the logistical challenges posed by the novel coronavirus […]
DDC Kupwara Reviews Rs.66 crore 11 Development projects
District Development Commissioner (DDC) Kupwara, Anshul Garg today convened a meeting of concerned engineers to review the pace of progress of various ongoing development projects in the district. Additional Deputy Commissioner(ADC), Nazir Ahmad Lone; Joint Director Planning, Abdul Majeed; DGM, JKPCC; DGM Housing Board; Executive Engineers R&B Division Kupwara & Handwara; representatives from Education, SAMAGRA, […]
PANDEMIC AND TOURISM
Since August 5, last year there has been no tourism in Jammu and Kashmir. All the three regions of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir that is Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir have suffered on this front due to heavy clampdown by the central government post abrogation of article 370. When spring started coming to […]
COVID-19: Kupwara man dies in Srinagar, J-K toll 159
A 75-year-old man from Kupwara district died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Bemina, Srinagar, taking the number of people succumbing to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 159. A resident of Chatgund area of the north Kashmir, the septuagenarian was referred from Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), the Medical Superintendent, Dr Shifa […]
Senior journalist bereaved
Mudasir Ahmad Khan, A senior journalist who has worked with different newspapers from the past 2 decades, was bereaved on Friday as his ailing father Ghulam Mohammad Khan of Karfali Mohalla Habakadal, went for heavenly abode in C.D Hospital of Srinagar. A joint condolence meeting was held in Srinagar to express sympathies with mudasir Khan. […]
