SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir U-17 football team Thursday started their U-17 National Football Championship campaign with a goalless draw against Delhi played Agartala. The draw meant teams had to share the points. It was the visitors who created early chances in the first half and put pressure on their opponents but failed to convert […]
SRINAGAR: Thanks to a half century from Asif Khan and Riyaz Ahmad’s three wicket haul, Ghani Gliders trounced a Delhi based cricket club by 60 runs in the finals to pocket Future Sports T-20 tournament played at Delhi. Batting first visitors GG put a daunting total of 175 on the board losing five wickets in […]
JAMMU: Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan Thursday launched the annual Oil and Gas Conservation Fortnight (OGCF) campaign here at Hotel Asia. The campaign is organised by Oil Companies operating in the state every year from January 16 to 31 under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Petroleum and […]
JAMMU: Underscoring the need for involvement of local skilled and unskilled manpower in execution of newly coming-up Hydro Power Projects in the state, the Minister of State for Power Vikar Rasool has directed concerned executing agencies to engage local youth while taking up the construction work on these projects. The minister, according to an official […]
SRINAGAR: Present government is committed for empowering youth and providing them employment opportunities, Rural Development Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar said on Thursday here. He also said to address the unemployment issues government has launched several schemes. The minister, according to an official statement, was addressing a meeting held to review the pace of implementation of […]
SRINAGAR: The J&K State Board of School Education on Thursday declared the results of Class 12 examinations with little more than half of the enrolled students qualifying the exams. According to result notification, 51,391 students had appeared in the examination, and 20,019 students will have to reappear in the examination this year while around 4609 […]
Srinagar: The Hurriyat Conference Jammu and Kashmir , formed recently by Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Khan and other pro-freedom leaders after parting ways with the Mirwaiz Umar-led Hurriyat , Wednesday said it was discussing the possibility of JKLF (R) chairman Farooq Ahmad Dar aka Bitta Karatey joining the party. In a statement, the party termed […]
SRINAGAR: Senior Hurriyat Conference (M) leader and chairman of his faction of the Muslim Conference, Professor Abdul Gani Bhat on Wednesday said the Kashmiri movement was at “crucial stage” and “nearer to resolution” and “this stage Kashmiris must stand up and reap the benefits.” “The movement for which we have rendered uncounted sacrifices since decades […]
Srinagar: The one-man judicial commission probing the killing of four civilians in two separate incidents of firing by paramilitary CRPF in Shopian district in September last year, on Wednesday granted the CRPF time, till January 18, to file its reply about the incidents. As the Commission headed by Justice (Retd) ML Kaul began the sitting […]
SRINAGAR: J&K cricket team is making headlines for all the right reasons for making it to the quarter finals of India’s premier domestic tournament Ranji Trophy for the first time in five decades. J&K’s dream run was halted by Punjab defeating the Parvez Rasool led side by 100 runs in the last eight stages, but […]