Srinagar: Students pursuing Bachelors in Education (BEd) at Kashmir University through distance mode have complained of a hike in examination fee amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but the administration claims it has, in fact, slashed the fees as a one-time relaxation in view of the pandemic. Students enrolled at the KU’s Directorate of Distance Education from […]
Officials say announcement likely to be made next week Srinagar: More than one lakh Class 10 and 12 students in Jammu and Kashmir are staring at a loss of an academic year as the J&K Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has failed to conduct this year’s private board examinations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While […]
Hostellers not even informed, their belongings tossed out Srinagar: Authorities in Ganderbal district have shifted about a dozen panchs and sarpanchs to the women’s hostel in Central University of Kashmir (CUK), without any regard for the female hostellers’ privacy and “under false pretext and in a highly unwarranted manner”, the female hostellers and university officials […]
Srinagar: A youth in his thirties is doing decline push-ups in a small room. He does some hundred odd push-ups in five sets. The exercise is part of the youth’s 30-day ‘Decline Push-up Challenge’ on his own YouTube channel. Sounds ordinary? It is not. The youth is not some ordinary fitness buff but a KAS […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and government on Friday announced a 30 percent syllabus rebate for students appearing in this year’s class 10 and 12 annual examinations in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. The announcement was made by Principal Secretary School Education Department, Asgar Hassan Samoon on Twitter. “Syllabus for 10+2 reduced to 70 […]
Srinagar: The University of Kashmir has tentatively scheduled the Entrance Test (KUET) – 2020 from the first week of September after it got inordinately delayed in the face of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. A notification issued Friday by Director Admissions and Competitive Examinations at the KU in this regard asked the aspirants for […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and government on Friday announced a 30 percent syllabus rebate for students appearing in this year’s class 10 and 12 annual examinations in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. The announcement was made by Principal Secretary School Education Department, Asgar Hassan Samoon on Twitter. “Syllabus for 10+2 reduced to 70 […]
Srinagar: At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has wiped out thousands of jobs, the Jammu and Kashmir government has abolished a 17-year-old scheme to leave more than four-thousand engineers jobless. The ‘Self Help Group of Engineers Scheme’ (SHGES) was launched by the J&K government in 2003 wherein 30 percent of the total works in […]
Srinagar: Bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal has stepped down as President of J&K People’s Movement party a year and half after launching it. The move comes amid speculations of his returning to the IAS. He had resigned last year to join politics but his resignation has not been reportedly accepted so far. Faesal has removed the designation […]
Srinagar: Bureaucrat-turned politician, Dr Shah Faesal has stepped down as President J&K People’s Movement party a year and half after launching it. The development comes on the heels of Faesal dropping the designation of ‘President JKPM’ on Twitter. But, Faesal had already asked the JKPM to “spare him from the organisational responsibilities” of the party, […]