Editors, Journalists Associations meet PCI team in Srinagar
SRINAGAR : The three-member Press Council of India (PCI) team held a series of meetings here today with the representatives of various media associations to have an insight into the challenges confronting the media in the State. The PCI team comprising of Pravat Kumar Dash, Ashok Upadhyay and Prof Sushma Yadav, held detailed deliberations with […]
Advisor Ganai reviewsimplementation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes
SRINAGAR, : Advisor to Governor, Khurshid Ahmed Ganai, today said that every possible effort would be made to get more funds for accelerating the developmental initiatives being implemented under the centrally sponsored schemes. The Advisor was speaking at a meeting with administrative secretaries to review the progress of implementation of the centrally-sponsored schemes (CSSs). The […]
Union Home Minister arrives on 2-day visit to JK
SRINAGAR, : Union Home Minister,Mr Rajnath Singh, along with a high-level delegation of government officials, arrived here this evening on a two-day visit to Jammu & Kashmir to review the security situation in the State. The Home Minister was received at the Technical Airport here by Advisors to the Governor, B B Vyas, K Vijay […]
Media watchdog warns India over spike in journos’ killings in first Incident Report
Agencies India may slip further from its current 138th place in the World Press Freedom Index as four journalists were murdered in less than six months amidst a sharp rise in hate speech, a global media watchdog warned today in its first report on the country. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it had come out with a report exclusively […]
Governor reviews SVC functioning; presented with the 5th Annual Report of Vigilance Commission
Srinagar, July 4: Governor N. N. Vohra reviewed the functioning of State Vigilance Commission (SVC) on receiving the 5th Annual Report of the Commission with Sh. P.L. Gupta, Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), Srinagar. The report contained to-date status of the complaints received by the Commission, action taken for their disposal and the conclusions arrived at by […]
Doctors Strike: Govt to invoke ESMA
SRINAGAR, : Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to invoke Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) to deal with the strike called by the doctors in various health institutions of the State. “The Government can’t allow the hapless patients to suffer and in order to ensure that there is no disruption of healthcare services, it has been […]
Uruguay Army official appointed head of UNMOGIP
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a veteran Uruguay Army general as the chief military observer of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan. Major General Jose Eladio Alcain will succeed the incumbent UNMOGIP chief Major General Per Gustaf Lodin of Sweden, who will complete his two-year assignment this month, an […]
Residential house, crops damaged due to cloud burst in Tral
Srinagar, : One residential house got partially damaged while the embankment of Chandriyad Nallah got damaged in Naristan area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district due to the cloud burst on late Tuesday evening. According to the KNS correspondent, Syed Aijaz, locals said that embankment of streams and the crops got damaged in the […]
Won’t return to India till I feel ‘safe’: Zakir Naik
Mumbai: Dr Zakir Naik, the Islamic scholar and preacher who has been staying abroad to evade arrest in various cases in India, today said he would not return home till he felt “safe from unfair prosecution”. Naik’s statement, issued through his PRO, came amid reports that he was being deported to India from Malaysia. “The […]
Dozens killed as another ferry sinks in Indonesia
JAKARTA, — Passengers trapped for a night on a stricken ferry off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi were rescued early Wednesday, officials said, as the death toll rose to 31 with three people missing and believed drowned inside the vessel. The latest in a succession of boat tragedies in Indonesia began on the same day that […]
