Chairs valedictory function of varsity’s 10-day hands-on training Srinagar: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir has to play a bigger role in ensuring the quality of life through the production of affordable, nutritious and safe food for the people, chairperson, J&K Wakf Board, Dr Darakhshan Andrabi said on Tuesday. Dr Andrabi was […]
Srinagar: The Vice Chancellor’s sports festival was kick started at the playfields of College of Temperate Sericulture, Mirgund by Director Education SKUAST-K, Prof.M A A Siddique on October 20, 2023, along with Prof Prof. M F Baqual, Associate Dean CoTS Mirgund. The sports festival is organized by Department of Students Welfare and College of Temperate […]
Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said the security situation in the Union Territory has improved significantly and militancy is “taking its last breath” here. Accommodations for employees belonging to the Kashmiri Pandit community in Kashmir have been arranged, and allocation will be completed expeditiously, he said. “The security situation is better than it […]
Srinagar: Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), J&K has written a letter to the Housing and Urban Development Department to change Election Authority from CEO to the State Election Commission (SEC) for conduct of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) elections. It also sought ensuring that 50 percent upper ceiling of vertical reservation is not breached while granting reservation […]
Srinagar: Arrangements for Dussehra celebrations were being finalised here on Monday as effigies of Ravana reached the valley, a day before they are set on fire for ‘Ravana Dahan’ at the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium to signify the victory of good over evil. Sanjay Tickoo, one of the organisers, told PTI: “We are making preparations for […]
Srinagar: Underlining that the unauthorized access to sensitive data is a breach of extant IT rules, the government on Monday to ensure that officers and officials, who have been transferred out of secretariat, or left their respective departments and organization and no longer need access to e-office, shall not get a privilege of any access […]
Banihal/Jammu: Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was restored early Monday after remaining suspended for over 24 hours due to road repair work in landslide-hit Dalwas area of Ramban district, officials said. Authorities also allowed traffic on the Mughal and Sinthan top roads, which were shut after fresh snowfall in high altitude areas, they said. […]
Srinagar: Police on Monday claimed to have cracked within the five days a “blind murder” case of a woman by arresting four accused persons here. Police said, on October 17, 2023, Police Station Bemina received information that an unidentified woman had been murdered and her dead body was found on the roadside at Durbal, Bemina. […]
Handwara: A 37-year-old man died and another was hospitalised, after the duo came under a caved in sand mound in Shanoo village in Langate Handwara, officials said. They said that one Abdul Hamid Sheikh, son of khazir Mohammad was alongwith Shabir Ahmad Dar, son of Gh Nabi Dar when a sand mound caved in trapping […]
Kupwara: Three siblings among the four born to a woman have died, a close relative of the lactating mother said. The relative said that the three babies as per doctors didn’t survive due to ‘underweight’. “Among the deceased babies include two boys and a girl”, the relative said . Another baby boy has been referred […]