‘Teams will need some time to ace it’: Gavaskar on Impact Player rule

New Delhi: Former India cricketers Sunil Gavaskar and Harbhajan Singh have given thumbs up to the new ‘Impact Player Rule’ introduced by the BCCI in the IPL. The legendary cricketers reckon that the teams might need some time to understand and implement the rule according to the playing conditions. “You need some time to understand […]

J&K’s GSDP Likely To Double In Next Five Years: Economic Survey

J&K’s GSDP Likely To Double In Next Five Years: Economic Survey

Jammu: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta today released the Economic Survey 2022-23 of the UT, a document presenting the elaborate picture of the economy of J&K for the closing financial year prepared by Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Planning Development & Monitoring Department. On the occasion the Chief Secretary observed that the document is […]

CS launches 6 more services under Auto-appeal

CS launches 6 more services under Auto-appeal

Jammu: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta today launched the PSGA auto-appeal feature for 06 more online services offered by the Housing& Urban Development Department. The feature is going to auto escalate the appeals in case the services are not provided to the applicant within the time limit set under the Public Services Guarantee Act […]

10,000 pilgrims from J&K to perform Hajj

10,000 pilgrims from J&K to perform Hajj

Srinagar: Around 10,000 people from Jammu and Kashmir will perform the pilgrimage of Haj as the draw of lots was on held Friday, officials said. They said that 1320 people, above 70-years of age, and 132 women who had applied without mahram, will also perform the Haj 2023. Haj Executive Officer, Abdul Salam Mir said […]

Hassle-Free Yatra: LG chairs SASB Meeting

Hassle-Free Yatra: LG chairs SASB Meeting

Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha chaired the 44th meeting of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) at Raj Bhawan, today. members of the Shrine Board – Swami Avdheshanand Giri Ji Maharaj, Shri D. C. Raina, Smt. Kailash Mehra Sadhu, Shri K. N. Rai, Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Shri Pitambar Lal Gupta, Dr. Shailesh Raina, Prof Vishwamurti Shastri […]

Recovery Of Throat-Slit Corpse In Kupwara

Recovery Of Throat-Slit Corpse In Kupwara

DLSA Warns Against Circulating Girl’s Details Srinagar: District Legal Services Authority Kupwara on Friday directed media and general public to stop revealing the identity and other incidental details of a minor girl whose throat-slit body was recovered by the police earlier this week in the north Kashmir district. The DLSA has also warned that the […]

Rains Forecast In J&K

Rains Forecast In J&K

Srinagar: Amid forecast for widespread light to moderate rain and thunders in plains and light snowfall over upper reaches during the next 24 hours, the minimum temperatures recorded an increase in Kashmir Valley and a drop at most places in Jammu division on Friday. A meteorological department official said that scattered to fairly widespread light […]

Local Muslims help perform last rites of CISF trooper in Kulgam

Local Muslims help perform last rites of CISF trooper in Kulgam

Srinagar: Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district Friday helped perform the last rites of a Hindu CISF jawan who died of cardiac arrest, officials said. Balbir Singh, 55, a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan died Thursday evening of cardiac arrest at his home in Karkan area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam, the officials said. […]

Kashmiri Pandit’s ‘Murder’ Case: Court Lists Criminal Review Plea On May 4

Kashmiri Pandit’s ‘Murder’ Case: Court Lists Criminal Review Plea On May 4

Srinagar: A court here has posted on May 4 a Criminal Revision Petition regarding the murder of Kashmiri Pandit Satish Tickoo in February 1990 here. It was after several hearings that advocate Utsav Bains, the counsel for the family, appeared before the court. He had been continuously seeking adjournments, mostly through applications filed via email […]

Rs 16 lakh cash, heroin seized from 2 smugglers In Samba

Jammu: Two interstate drug smugglers were arrested and recovered over Rs 16 lakh cash and heroin from them in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, police said on Friday said. The accused, Harpreet Singh alias Raju alias Happy and Ranjeet Singh alias Kalu of Amritsar, have been booked under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, […]