India A speedster Ishan Porel bowled brilliantly to grab six-wickets while Shreevats Goswami made an unbeaten 86 to guide Bengal to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Jammu and Kashmir in a Group C Vijay Hazare Trophy match here on Monday. Porel (6/34) came up with a devastating opening spell that sent Jammu and Kashmir reeling […]
Normal life affected, communication blackout continues
Normal life affected, communication blackout continues Srinagar: Government forces have intensified surveillance and area domination operations in Kashmir following Saturday’s militancy-related incidents, including a grenade attack on government forces in old city, a senior security official said. Anti-insurgency operations were intensified as part of a proactive strategy to foil any plans of militants to stage […]
Mir Iqbal Srinagar: The elections for Block Development Council (BDC) in J&K would be held on October 24, Chief Electoral Office (CEO), Shailendra Kumar announced Sunday. The Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj earlier issued SRO 522 dated 03-09-2019, notifying the Block Development Councils along with their constituent panchayat halqas. Kumar said elections for chairperson […]
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday faulted the country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for approaching the United Nations in 1948 on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir “In 1948, India went to United Nations. That was a Himalayan blunder. It is more than a Himalayan blunder,” he said at event organised […]
Jammu: Three women and a child were injured as Pakistan violated ceasefire for the second consecutive day on Sunday in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. The Pakistan Army resorted to mortar shelling and small arms firing on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote area of […]
New Delhi: India strongly criticised on Saturday Pakistan’s stand on the Kashmir issue as “propaganda” at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Uganda and said military rule is the tradition of Islamabad, according to an official statement. The Pakistani delegation raised the heavy presence of security forces in the Valley at the 64th meeting of the […]
‘Entire world supports abrogation of Article 370’ Charges opposition with spreading ‘misinformation’ New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said there are no restrictions in the Kashmir Valley now and that the entire world has supported the move to abrogate the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370. Shah also said […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir is passing through various kinds of restrictions leading to “worst kind” of economic slowdown, the Congress on Saturday urging the Government of India and local administration to consider “genuine demands” of business community. “The failure of the Centre and state government to respond to the genuine demands of people to extend […]
More than 25,000 boxes received at four mandis under MIS, says Dir horticulture
Mir Iqbal Srinagar: The government is mulling to open one more collection centre for procuring apples in Kulgam under Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) in coming days. Known as ‘rice bowl of Kashmir’, vast paddy fields were converted into apple orchards in the last decade in the district, making a large number of families dependent on the […]
Manzoor-ul-Hassan Srinagar: The Health and Medical Education Department (H&MED) has failed to devise a mechanism to scrutinise dubious or unrecognised paramedical degrees and diplomas obtained by candidates from institutions outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the department says that no paramedic college outside the jurisdiction of J&K state stands recognised by J&K Parademical/ […]