NEW DELHI: Justices Rajesh Kumar Agarwal and Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana Monday assumed charge as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court’s strength to 31 including Chief Justice P Sathasivam. Justices Agarwal and Ramana were the Chief Justices of Madras High Court and Delhi High Court respectively. The sanctioned strength of judges in the apex court […]
SRINAGAR: A skill upgradation programme for thousands of Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel organized by the department in collaboration with Delhi University commenced Monday. In Srinagar two interactive sessions were held in College of Education and District Police Lines, in which about 600 policemen were imparted training in soft skills for better police-public interface by […]
New Delhi: Special concessions and incentives including departmental arrangements for stay, security and transportation to the place of work for central government employees working in Jammu and Kashmir have been extended by a year beyond January. The Ministry of Personnel issued an order on Monday in this regard. The concessions include an option for employees […]
NEW DELHI: In a bonanza for farmers ahead of general elections, the government of India Monday said it has set an agriculture credit target of Rs 8 lakh crore for 2014-15 as against an expected level of Rs 7.35 lakh crore this fiscal. Presenting the interim budget for the next fiscal, Finance Minister P Chidambaram […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today said it will wait for six months to see the progress made by the government on the issue of fulfilling vacancies in the higher judiciary before entertaining any petition raising this issue. However, a bench headed by chief justice P Sathasivam, appreciated the effort of an NGO, Society For […]
Jammu: Government Monday said that Rs 200 crore is being spent on the construction of 1,788 panchayat offices along with the renovation of 2,300 existing ones. Minister for Rural Development and Panchayats, Ali Mohd Sagar, shared the information while replying to a question by Congress member Sham Lal Bhagat in the J-K Legislative Council today. […]
Jammu: Government Monday introduced a Bill in the Assembly to provide the right of use to Gujarat Petronet for land which has been acquired for the laying of gas pipelines and other underground public utilities in the state. The Minister of State for Revenue, Ajaz Ahmad Khan introduced the ‘L A Bill No.1 of 2014’ […]
NEW DELHI: The road network in the country has witnessed a whopping over seven-fold increase at 3.89 lakh kilometres in the UPA-I and UPA-II regime, Finance Minister P Chidambaram Monday said. “In the year 2004, the country’s highway network was 51,511 km which has now reached 3,89,578 km Monday,” he said in his interim budget […]
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister P Chidambaram in his interim budget speech Monday announced a moratorium period for education loans taken up to March 31, 2009 which were outstanding as on December 31, 2013. Under this scheme, government will take over the liability for outstanding interest as on December 31, 2013, but the borrower would have […]
Srinagar: Cold wave has tightened its grip over Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region where the minimum temperatures dipped several degrees below the freezing point. Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded a drop of over three degrees in the minimum temperature as the mercury settled at a low of minus 3.3 degrees Celsius […]