ERA recommends disapproved HDPE pipes for water supply project

SOHAIL PUNJABI JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Economical Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has recommend use of disapproved water supply pipes in a major project here. For replacement of worn-out and laying of new pipelines, the agency has floated a tender wherein it recommended use of HDPE pipes, which stand disapproved by the state government since ‘90s. […]

Awami Action Committee turns 50

Srinagar: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s Awami Action Committee (AAC) is completing its 50 years this year, and to celebrate the golden jubilee the party is holding a “huge” rally at Municipal Park Srinagar on June 20. According to an AAC statement, Mirwaiz convened a meeting of the  workers and delegates of AAC from across the Valley […]

Our slogan should be ‘boycott dikhav, emaan bachav’: Inqilabi

Srinagar: Mahaz-a-Azadi’s patron Mohammad Azam Inqilabi has hailed Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq for calling for boycott of the forthcoming “farcical and sham elections in Kashmir.” “It is heartening to know that the high profile pacifist resistance leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has rejected the so-called elections in Kashmir as a fraud and farce […]

Agri-business training camp held in Budgam

BUDGAM: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) organized a workshop on agriculture business at Town Hall, here on Saturday. The participants were mainly agriculture graduate students and progressive farmers from the Budgam district, an official spokesperson said. This camp was attended by Additional District Development Commissioner, Budgam, Ijaz Ahmad Bhat, District Development Manager […]

Satya Group conducts student counseling program

SRINAGAR: Satya Group Of Institutions, a Delhi NCR Region based institute, carried a week long counseling cum admission guidance programme here, where experts from Delhi provided counseling on  various technical and professional courses, a spokesperson for the institute said. The students were also made aware about the various scholarships schemes from AICTE MHRD, Ministry of […]

Paramedical students hold anti-GMC protest

Srinagar: Paramedical students from various private colleges and government-run Ancillary Medical Training (AMT) School on Saturday staged protests over denial of reevaluation of their answer papers in the recently held examination. A group of students who gathered at Press Enclave here shouted slogans against the authorities of Government Medical College Srinagar. They said the pass […]

CUK VC for adopting innovative practices in examination system

Srinagar: Central University of Kashmir (CUK) Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Mehraj-ud-Din Saturday inaugurated one-day workshop on “Examination-Evaluation Reforms: Challenges and Responses” at its Transit Campus Sonwar here. The workshop was attended by academic heads, faculty members, functionaries of the Central University. Addressing the participants in his inaugural address, Vice-Chancellor, Prof Mehraj-ud-Din Mir appreciated the initiative of Examination […]

HC declines to quash cheque bounce proceedings before CJM

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has dismissed a petition seeking quashing of proceedings before Chief Judicial Magistrate Pulwama in a cheque bounce case. The petition was filed by Mohammad Shafi of Pulwama before the High Court seeking quashing of the proceedings initiated against him by the CJM under section 561-A. The case against Shafi […]