Awantipora: A three-day training program on Revival of the Dying Craft: Paper Machie Designing coordinated by the Department of Management Studies, IUST concludes. The Programme was attended by about 100 participants from different educational institutions in the valley. Multiple sessions were held focussing on different aspects including incredible history of Paper Machie in Kashmir, Origin […]
Srinagar: National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar on Wednesday organised a grand reception for the 16 students, who were on a weeklong exposure tour to Assam as part of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat (EBSB), a pilot initiative by Government of India. IIT Jammu was the Nodal Higher Education Institution for Jammu and Kashmir, while IIT […]
Jammu: With an aim to provide financial succor to the serving police personnel, the Director General of Police, J&K, Dilbag Singh has sanctioned rupees 2.16 crore as Welfare loan/relief for serving Police personnel. He has also sanctioned rupees 1.10 crore as Special Welfare Relief/ ex-gratia relief in favour of 06 martyr/deceased Police personnel/SPO. “DGP has […]
Jammu: The Jammu & Kashmir Police Headquarters has issued promotion orders in respect 156 Non Gazetted officers of different cadres to the next rank under two different orders. As recommended by the Departmental Promotion Committee and after thorough scrutiny of the service records, 57 Sub-Inspectors of Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police/SDRF has been promoted to […]
SRINAGAR: Power Controller Kashmir has informed that, in order to upgradation of conductors, installation of protection equipment and painting of poles at Receiving Station Waterhall the power supply shall remain affected on March 17 and March 20 from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm. Similarly, the power supply to Receiving Station Branwar shall remain affected on […]
Washington: The United States recognises the McMahon Line as the international boundary between China and Arunachal Pradesh, according to a bipartisan Senate resolution which sees Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India. “At a time when China continues to pose grave and gathering threats to the Free and Open Indo-Pacific, it is critical for […]
Washington/Moscow: Washington’s claim that a Russian fighter jet collided with a US surveillance drone near Crimea causing it to crash is both a rare military incident between the two superpowers and a serious escalation in already tense relations since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year. US and Russian officials have given conflicting accounts of what […]
Moscow: Russia’s unemployment rate has dropped to a historic low of 3.6 per cent, President Vladimir Putin said. “The unemployment rate was at a historic low, even before the pandemic, our unemployment rate was 4.7 per cent, and the latest labour market data (shows) it is 3.6 percent,” Xinhua news agency quoted Putin as saying […]
New Delhi: Animal right activists have urged authorities to set up community kitchens to feed stray dogs and ensure that they are sterilised and vaccinated to keep their population under control, days after two children were mauled to death by canines in Vasant Kunj here. The minor brothers were found dead over the span of […]
New Delhi: Former Railways minister and Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was Wednesday granted bail by a Delhi court in connection with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s alleged land-for-jobs case. Lalu’s wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and their daughter RJD MP Misa Bharti were also granted bail by the court […]