Jammu-Srinagar national highway remains closed for second day; over 3,000 vehicles stranded
The Jammu-Srinagar national highway, an all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, remained closed for the second consecutive day on Friday due to heavy snowfall and landslides, officials said. Over 3,000 vehicles comprising mostly trucks carrying essential supplies are stranded at various places on the highway from Lakhanpur in Kathua district to […]
Arrangements in offing
Due to the growing threat of corona virus, in Jammu and Kashmir government has taken slew of measures to combat this threat. In this direction the latest from the administration is that they have geared up all the limbs of the government to help people in case they get infected by this virus. Officials said […]
Farooq Abdullah’s detention order revoked after seven-and-half months of captivity; 82-yr-old Srinagar MP was under house arrest
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday, revoked the detention order of Srinagar MP Farooq Abdullah after he spent more than seven months in captivity. Abdullah, a five-time parliamentarian, has been under detention since 5 August when the Centre abrogated special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state. He was the first politician from […]
DLSA organizes plantation drive at BHSS Batmaloo
SRINAGAR, MARCH 12: Government Boys Higher Secondary School (BHSS) Batamaloo, Srinagar in collaboration with District Legal Authority Srinagar and Urban Forest Department held a plantation drive in the Institution, here today. Secretary, District Legal Authority Srinagar (DLSA), Syed Adnan, DFO, Urban Forest Department, Mr. Zaman and Principal BHSS Batamaloo, Syed Shaheela were present on this […]
Robust machanism in place to tackle Corona Virus Infection in Pulwama
Stringent action against overpricing and hoarding of sanitisers and masks: District Magistrate PULWAMA, MARCH 12: District Administration Pulwama has put in place a robust mechanism to tackle the threat of the Corona Virus in the district. The district administration has setup a screening camps and help desks equipped with doctors and technical staff at different […]
DDC Ganderbal reviews development scenario in district
GANDERBAL, MARCH 12: District Development Commissioner (DDC), Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal today chaired a meeting to review the progress on various ongoing development projects in the district besides, progress registered under District CAPEX Budget. The meeting was attended by, CPO Ganderbal, ACD Ganderbal, Executive Engineers of PDD, R&B, and PHE and other concerned district and sectoral […]
IASE organizes daylong workshop on ‘Information and Communications Technology’
SRINAGAR, MARCH 12: The P.G. Department of Computer Applications, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) organized a one day workshop on “Information and Communications Technology” titled ‘Internet Technologies and Office Applications’ for the students of the college, here the other day. On the occasion, Principal, Prof. (Dr.) Yasmeen Ashai, in her inaugural address, emphasized […]
Hasnain Masoodi demands evacuation of Kashmiri students from Iran
Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir National Conference member of Parliament (Retd) Justice Hasnain Masoodi on Thursday sought the status of the efforts made by external affairs ministry towards repatriation and evacuation of stranded Kashmiri students from Iran. While reacting to the rejoinder made by union external affairs minister S Jaishankar’s statement in the Lok Sabha party […]
Will evacuate Kashmiri students from coronavirus-hit Iran, Jaishankar tells Lok Sabha
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that during his latest visit to Jammu and Kashmir, he held talks with the families of Indian students still in Iran, one of the worst affected countries by coronavirus outbreak, and assured that the government will facilitate their evacuation at the earliest possible. “I visited Srinagar recently […]
‘Abrogating Article 370 will need 1000 people killed’: Ex-Guv J-K quotes Chief Secy
Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has revealed that the then state chief secretary B. V. R. Subrahmanyam told him on 4 August 2019 that over 1000 people will be killed to abrogate the Article 370. Malik, who is now governor of Goa, was speaking International Jat Parliament, Vigyan Bhavan on 1 March, […]
