India, China maintaining engagements to resolve border standoff at earliest: MEA
The Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday India and China were maintaining military and diplomatic engagements to peacefully resolve the border row at the earliest even though it did not respond to reports on troops moving back from standoff positions in the Galwan and Hot Spring areas of Ladakh. MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said both sides had agreed […]
Darbar Move: Estates Department asks Admin Secretaries to provide list of employees for residential allotment at Srinagar, Jammu
Jammu, June 11 (KNS): The Estates Deparment of Jammu and Kashmir Government has asked all the Administrative Secretaries/ HoDs to furnish list of officers/officials, who are likely to move to Srinagar and those who will be retained at Jammu along with detail of previous accommodation within two days positively so that the accommodation may be […]
CF inspects development works at Tangmarg
CF inspects development works at Tangmarg TANGMARG, JUNE 11: Conservator of Forests (CF), Srinagar Circle, Zubair Ahmad Shah, today, visited Tangmarg and took stock of the development works coming under Special Forest Division Tangmarg. He visited Division Nursery and inspected the plant stocks like conifer /broad leaved and medicinal plants raised there. He visited the […]
COVID-19: Govt evacuates 1,20,868 stranded JK residents; 81,455 via Lakhanpur, 39,413 through special trains
JAMMU, JUNE 11: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 1,20,868 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, […]
HAILSTORM
In the past weeks, hailstorms have hit orchardists across Kashmir and there are media reports that heavy losses have been incurred by the farmers and without any compensation by the government they cannot come out of the debt trap. In this direction many political parties of Kashmir have appealed to the UT administration to fix […]
India, China ‘Properly Handling’ Border Issue, Taking Actions To Ease Situation: Chinese Foreign Min
China and India are “properly handling” and taking actions to ease the situation at the border based on the “consensus” reached recently during their diplomatic and military level talks, a senior Chinese official said on Thursday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s remarks came a day after the Indian and Chinese military commanders held “productive” talks […]
No Use Discussing Black Lives Matter In India If We Can’t Foster Change Back Home
“Black, brown, yellow, Mexican, Puerto Rican, we’re all the same. All us people of colour must stick together.”, said Jamanbhai to Demetrius in the 1991 film Mississippi Masala. This dialogue profoundly sums up the context enveloped in the next few paras. Indeed, colours are a crucial signifier of races, but in India, they exist far and […]
Financial Brunt Of Covid-19: Fear Of Uncertain Future Grips Investors
At the end of the 78th day of the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, the feeling of uncertain economic and financial future has gripped majority of the citizens. This was revealed in a survey carried out by IndiaLends, a digital lending platform earlier this month. The nationwide survey of nearly 5,000 respondents threw up no surprises: 94 per […]
Halt in Srinagar’s developmental work puts a question mark on its Smart City Status: JKAP
SRINAGAR, June 11 : Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) leader and former legislator Noor Mohammad Sheikh on Thursday expressed deep concern over incompletion of various developmental projects in Srinagar putting a question mark on its Smart City status. In a statement issued to KNS, the JKAP leader observed that the inhabitants of Bemina, Tengpora, […]
India, China to continue military talks to discuss Eastern Ladakh dispute
India and China are going to continue their military talks to find a resolution to the ongoing dispute in Eastern Ladakh where the Chinese have deployed large number of troops along the Line of Actual Control. “After the Major General-level talks on Wednesday, the talks are expected to be held over the next few days […]
