Srinagar: Following the cold weather conditions, the School Education Department is likely to issue new timing that will be subsequently be implemented from November-01. Top officials of the department said, “Keeping in view the ongoing cold weather conditions in winter zones of Kashmir division, the department will issue the new school timing.” The new timing […]
* SRINAGAR: J&K Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Thursday said that police had specially focussed on wiping out foreign militants in Kashmir this year and 40 of them were killed with the result local militant recruitment also dropped significantly. “This year, our special focus was to eliminate foreign militants of various outfits operating […]
Srinagar: Amid forecast for weeklong weather associated with possibility of rain or snowfall and colder days, most places in Jammu and Kashmir recorded below normal night temperature on Sunday. A meteorological department official here said that Srinagar recorded a low of 4.2°C against 2.6°C on the previous night. The temperature was 1.4°C above normal for […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Sunday said that exams conducted by the Public Service Commission that were cancelled by the government and will be now held afresh in the month of November and selection will purely be based on merit. Addressing a function at SKICC here, Sinha , said that gone are […]
Uri: At least nine persons including four women and two children were injured in a road accident in Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district this evening. Official said that an Eco vehicle (JK05H 0602) on way to Uri town met fell down into Hajipeer Nallah near NS bridge, resulting into injuries to nine persons, […]
Srinagar: The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), in its fifth APEX committee meeting approved UT Water Action Plan (UTWAP) for 153 projects amounting Rs. 1665.10 crore for 78 ULBs of J&K under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation of Urban Transformation (AMRUT) 2.0. Principal Secretary, H&UDD, Dheeraj Gupta, made a presentation on the action […]
Srinaga: The High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Saturday ordered the reopening of the infamous Nadimarg massacre case in which 24 Kashmiri Pandits were killed on March 23, 2003. Allowing a revision petition filed by the Government against the 2011 order by the trial court in Shopian, a bench of Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul […]
Srinagar: Police on Saturday seized a school van for overcrowding as well as posing safety threat to the school children in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a handout , the police said that today morning, a MARUTI Omni (Van) bearing registration number JK01P-4582 overcrowded with school children was intercepted at IG road near Peerbagh by […]
Srinagar: Weather department on Saturday said that snowfall and low temperature may lead to temporary disruption of surface transportation, mainly over Zojila, Mugha Road, Sadnatop, etc, during the first week of November. “As per today’s conditions, for whole 1st week of November (1-6th) weather is most likely to remain generally cloudy with possibility of light […]
Srinagar: Police on Saturday said that it has arrested a man for allegedly throwing Quran Sharief into water at a Masjid in Gojwara area of Srinagar district. In a tweet, Srinagar Police wrote, “An Incident of sacrilege took place in Khan Masjid Gojwara, wherein a person threw Quran Sharif in water. Accused namely Irshad Ahmad […]