Srinagar: Former Minister of State for Health, Shabir Ahmad Khan was Thursday arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a woman doctor and released on bail soon after he appeared at a police station here. The Congress MLA, who was forced to resign from the Omar Abdullah ministry in the wake of the charges and had […]
JAMMU: Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather Thursday announced that government will write off all the debt of the state owned public sector enterprises to provide them chance for revival. “To bring in improvements in the performance of our debt ridden PSEs who survive on budgetary support from government having no capacity to re-pay such liabilities […]
CHANDIGARH: Banks in Punjab were Thursday asked not to display names and photographs of education loan defaulters. Quoting a communication of Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, bank official in a State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) meeting said that some banks were adopting “reprehensible practices” such as displaying names and photographs of students who […]
Jammu: Over 32 thousand school buildings have been constructed in Jammu and Kashmir under Sarva Shiksha Abhyaan, the assembly was informed Thursday. “Against the target of constructing 58704 school buildings in the state under Sarva Shiksha Abhyaan (SSA), 32,222 school buildings have been completed and work on 25,914 are under progress at various stages,” Minister […]
By Naseer Khora Doda: Hundreds of people Thursday staged protests at the Old Bus Stand here in this mountainous district demanding fast track investigations into the alleged murder of a young student in the neighbouring Punjab state last month. 22-year-old Mehraj Khalid Mintoo of Irfan Abad here was found dead under mysterious circumstances on January […]