New Delhi: The security situation in the country, including in Jammu and Kashmir has improved considerably, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. Singh made the remark at an inter-ministerial meeting, convened to discuss development issues in Jammu and Kashmir, Left Wing Extremism-affected states and the Northeast region. The home minister said the overall security […]
Srinagar: After a tumultuous 2016, Kashmir witnessed a relatively calm year but there were many issues, including the legal challenge in the Supreme Court to Article 35-A of the Constitution pertaining to special residency laws of Jammu and Kashmir, that hogged national headlines. However, one of the biggest stories emanating from Kashmir in 2017 was […]
Srinagar: The much a talked about Coordination Committee of the PDP and BJP coalition partners is expected to meet today to discuss various issues relating to the functioning of the government in the state. The PDP vice president Sartaj Madni told a local news gathering agency that the coordination committee is scheduled to meet on […]
Srinagar: The claims of the government of providing good healthcare facilities in peripheries falls flat on ground as half of the sanctioned posts of Senior Consultants are lying vacant affecting the health services badly. As per data available with ‘Kashmir Vision,’ against a total number of 29 sanctioned posts of Senior Consultants for peripheries, 15 […]
Srinagar: Leh was the coldest recorded place in Jammu and Kashmir as the cold wave persisting in the valley and Ladakh region with the minimum temperature going down at most places last night. Leh town, in the frontier Ladakh region of the state, recorded a low of minus 11.4 degrees Celsius a decrease of over […]
Srinagar: The establishment of girls hostels in educationally backward blocks seems to be a distant dream despite the Union governments approval for establishment of girls hostel in educationally backward blocks of the state. The hostels were approved by government of India in 2011-2012 under centrally sponsored scheme- Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA). “But the successive […]
Sopore: A 32-year shopkeeper from Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district has gone missing from his shop on Tuesday this week. Reports said that on Dec 26, a gold smith identified as Tariq Ahmad Malik, son of Ghulam Rasool of Kalaroos Kupwara at present Muslim peer Sopore, owner of Karat Line gold shop at […]
JAMMU: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has greeted people on the annual Urs of Peer Dastgeer Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani (RA) Sahib being observed today. In her message, Mehbooba Mufti said in the teachings and practices of Hazrat Peer Dastageer (RA) Sahib lies the way ahead to get out of the troubles and tribulations of […]
Sopore: A 40 year old casual labourer of Power Development Department (PDD) died after an electric pole came crashing on ground hitting him while the workers were repairing a transmission line in Sopore outskirts in north Kashmir. “A casual labourer died after an electric pole which he was repairing fell on him at Harwan area of […]
Jammu: Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested after heroin and cash were recovered from their possession in R S Pura area here, police said today. Acting on specific information about the presence of drug peddlers, police conducted a raid at Chohala last evening. Mukesh Kumar and Balwinder Kumar tried to run away but were […]