7 ambassadors among 75 golfers arriving to play tournament SRINAGAR: About 75 golfers will arrive in Kashmir this weekend to play a golf tournament in Pahalgam, an event that is expected to promote golf tourism in India, Tourism Secretary Sarmed Hafeez told Kashmir Reader. He said that golfers are scheduled to play the tournament on […]
SRINAGAR: Much hype was created over the twin IT towers that were to be established at Jammu and Srinagar. It has been nearly eight months, the deadline fixed by the J&K LG, but let alone anything happening, no IT company has even shown interest in the projects. In the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the […]
SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday suffered another loss after its senior leader, and one of its key men in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, Nizamudin Bhat joined the Sajad Lone-led Peoples Conference (PC). Bhat joined the party along with another leader in presence of Sajad Lone and other senior leaders of PC at the […]
‘Represents systematic disempowerment of the people of J&K’ SRINAGAR: The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a conglomerate of five regional parties formed for the restoration of special status of Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday termed a recent report on development by the GoI as “concocted” and “fabricated”. The Alliance’s spokesperson MY Tarigami said the […]
SRINAGAR: Kashmiri MBBS doctors who have applied for post-graduate admissions have raised concern over the possibility that they are going to compete at all-India level, instead of at Jammu & Kashmir-level only. Their fears have come after a government notification said that Jammu and Kashmir is likely to participate in All India Medical Quota counselling […]
SRINAGAR: At a time when the administration is bracing up to fight another wave of Covid, people in Srinagar are complaining of malfunctions in the CoWIN app, which is the only means to register for vaccination as well as to receive the certificate of vaccination. Jawahira, who was due to get the second shot of […]
‘I had to take control of things that were in my control’ Wasim Bhat, 23, has cracked the UPSC exam in the first attempt SRINAGAR: At least nine candidates from Jammu and Kashmir have qualified the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam, the gateway to India’s highest grade of civil services. Among them is a […]
8 years of rigorous training brings a triumph for Srinagar’s Street Fighters Club SRINAGAR: On one calm Sunday morning of September, members of Srinagar club met at Tourist Reception Centre in Dalgate, from where they started on a 120-km high-altitude marathon run. In the next 12.5 hours, three athletes from the group reached Baltal, breaking […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) on Tuesday issued a formal order for the appointment of a consultant in the organisation, a position introduced for the first time, and without any public notice. As per the order, a copy of which with Kashmir Reader, Gh Hassan Wani, a retired deputy secretary, […]
SRINAGAR: Employees of the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) have written a letter to Chairperson Veena Pandita against the decision to hire a retired employee as a consultant, a position they say does not exist in the department. The letter has been sent a day after the government ordered re-employment of a […]