Srinagar: Dozens of paramedical staff terminated by the Jammu and Kashmir government recently amid the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, saw a support from an unexpected quarter-Congress MP from Kerala, Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday. The paramedics, 250 of them precisely, who were hired by the Health and Medical Education Department at the five newly opened medical colleges […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government has done away with formal textbooks and school bags for pre-primary students at the schools. A notification issued by Principal Secretary School Education, Asgar Hassan Samoon late on Wednesday also directed schools that no homework is assigned to students upto class 2. The new rules issued in the notification, which […]
‘Will write to PM for appropriate action’
Srinagar: Srinagar Municipal Corporation Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu on Wednesday said that he will write to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, over “multiple instances of sanitation workers being brutally beaten up” by police. He shared a video clip on Twitter showing policemen stopping a car and beating two inmates, who he claimed were SMC sanitation workers. […]
Srinagar: With schools shut and distribution of government of India sponsored uniforms among students out of place due to the prevailing Covid-19 lockdown, Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to credit the equivalent amount directly to the beneficiaries. Principal Secretary School Education Department, Asgar Hassan Samoon tweeted on Wednesday that under the prevailing lockdown, it […]
Srinagar: In a significant development, the Jammu and Kashmir government has done away with formal textbooks and school bags for pre-primary students at the schools. A notification issued by Principal Secretary School Education, Asgar Hassan Samoon late on Wednesday also directed schools that no homework is assigned to students upto 2nd standard. The new rules […]
Srinagar: With schools shut and manual distribution of government of India sponsored uniforms among students out of place, Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to credit the equivalent amount directly to the beneficiaries. Principal Secretary School Education Department, Asgar Hassan Samoon tweeted that under the prevailing lockdown, it was “virtually impossible to stitch and distribute […]
Srinagar: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi extending the COVID-19 lockdown till May 3, the J&K government said that educational institutions will continue to remain closed for now. Government spokesperson Rohit Kansal tweeted on Tuesday evening that schools, colleges and universities will continue to remain closed for now. He, however, did not specify the particular date […]
Srinagar: Even as eight fresh COVID-19 cases were reported in Srinagar on Friday, Deputy Commissioner, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said that there was no need to panic as the cases had already been traced and isolated by the administration. Soon after the government said that 23 new cases of the disease had been detected in J&K, […]
Calls it 'classic tracing success story'
Srinagar: Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary on Friday said that there was no need to panic about the district reporting 8 COVID-19 cases on the day. Soon after the government said that 23 new cases of the disease had been detected in J&K, Choudhry took to Twitter to mitigate fears about the eight new […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department on Tuesday ordered mass promotion of students in standard 1-9 in Jammu and class 11 in both the divisions in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. An order issued by Deputy Secretary School Education Department, Sachin Jamwal directed concerned authorities to promote all government and […]