Anantnag: For the last more than ten years now, the Primary Health Centre (PHC), here in the Gadol area of Kokernag in the Anantnag district, has been running from a cramped shop in the area. There are no doctors deputed to the PHC and no necessary medical equipment required at such a center. Only one […]
Jammu: Senior CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami on Tuesday said all non-BJP parties should come together to press the Election Commission to hold assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir early. “One more year is drawing to close but the assembly elections are nowhere in sight and the people of Jammu and Kashmir are being deprived […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on January 2 a batch of pleas challenging controversial state laws regulating religious conversions due to interfaith marriage. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha is scheduled to hear the PILs filed by advocate Vishal Thakre and an NGO ‘Citizens for Justice […]
Jammu: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha heard grievances of people and issued directions for their appropriate redressal during “LG’s Mulaqaat”- Live Public Grievance Hearing programme, at the Civil Secretariat today. The Lt Governor sought details of complaints received on JKIGRAM portal from the concerned deputy commissioners, senior officials and directed for prompt redressal of grievances in […]
JAMMU: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta Tuesday remarked that the skilling of youth in relevant trades is the key to tide over the problem of unemployment in the UT. Dr Mehta was speaking in a meeting to discuss the ways and means of skilling and capacity building of youth with the stakeholders. The meeting […]
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said she was “not shocked” at BJP MP Pragya Thakur’s remark made at an event in Karnataka exhorting Hindus to keep at least kitchen knives “sharp” to respond to any attack. Speaking at the Hindu Jagarana Vedike’s South Region annual convention at Shivamogga in Karnataka on Sunday, the […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed an order of the National Green Tribunal imposing a penalty of Rs 24 lakh on Odisha’s Kendrapara municipality for failing to control discharge of waste water into the Gobari river. A bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V Nagarathna issued notices to the Centre, Odisha government […]
SRINAGAR: The Enforcement Wing of Lake Conservation & Management Authority (LCMA) today undertook a demolition drive in the areas of Beigh Mohalla Ashaibagh, Old Nishat, Arabal Shalimar, Kral Mohalla Shalimar, Bagwanpora and General bagh Khatidarwaza. During the drive, one concrete platform, one 2nd storey, three Plinths and one room/compound walling, were demolished/ removed. Moreover, illegally […]
RAJOURI: District Development Commissioner Rajouri, Vikas Kundal today presided over a meeting of the concerned officers to review the implementation of spurring entrepreneurship initiative of the Mission Youth in the district. At the outset, the DDE, Qadeer Ul Rehman informed that under the spurring entrepreneurship scheme, the youth in the age group of 18 to […]
Srinagar: Police in Sopore have seized illicit timber and arrested the accused person involved in the commission of crime. Police station Panzala received an information that some smugglers have laden timber upon horses and are smuggling it to another location for illegal sale etc. Accordingly, Police established a special naka at Takiya Panzla and arrested […]