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 […]
JAMMU: The Legislative Assembly Monday unanimously adopted a resolution expressing gratitude to Union Minister for Health Ghulam Nabi Azad for establishing four medical colleges and two Cancer hospitals in the state. The House also impressed upon the Government of India to establish Medical Colleges at Poonch-Rajouri, Kupwara, Udhampur, Kulgam, Budgam, Bandipora, Leh/ Kargil, Samba and […]
Jammu: As many as 8,037 candidates have been trained in various sectors by the Jammu and Kashmir government under its flagship employment scheme. State Labour and Employment Minister Ajay Kumar Sadhotra informed the Legislative Council that under the Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY), the state had trained 8,037 candidates in 274 batches […]
NEW DELHI: Analysts Monday termed the interim budget as an “election budget”, and cautioned the pre -polls “sweeteners”, especially excise duty cuts, will make it difficult to achieve the deficit target. Finance Minister P Chidambaram while presenting the ninth Budget Monday said the fiscal deficit for the current financial year will be contained at 4.6 […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Geneva 2’s mood mirrored the sound of mortar and despair on the ground in Syria. Not much of substance came of the former, as the U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi tiredly indicated that diplomacy continued despite the lack of a breakthrough. He hoped that the United States and the Russians would pressure […]
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez believes his team can finally break the jinx of losing to India at ICC events and says his side has what it takes to “go all the way” at this year’s ICC World T20 in Bangladesh. Hafeez, who captained the Lahore Lions to another domestic T20 Cup title on […]