New Delhi: The benefit of Old Pension Scheme (OPS) in accordance with CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 will be applicable to all the personnel of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), the Delhi High Court ruled on January 12, Livelaw reported. The court further directed the Centre to issue necessary orders within 8 weeks for the same. […]
Higher Reaches Receive More Snow, Rains Lash Plains Srinagar: Weather department on Wednesday issued yellow warning for “isolated heavy rain, and snow disruption of traffic on higher elevations.” The warning comes as fresh snowfall in the higher reaches of Kashmir and rains in plains pushed the night temperature above the freezing point across the valley […]
LG, Others Pay Tributes Srinagar: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and two soldiers were killed as they slipped and fell into a gorge along a narrow snow track on Line of Control in Macchil sector or north Kashmir’s Kupwara district last night, officials said on Wednesday. A defence ministry spokesperson in a statement said that […]
Indore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees India as a “bright spot” in the global economy and as per the World Bank, India is in a better position to deal with the global headwinds than many other countries. This is because of India’s strong “macroeconomic fundamentals”, Modi said while […]
New Delhi: The Congress has invited 21 like-minded parties to participate in the concluding programme of its “Bharat Jodo Yatra” in Srinagar on January 30 to “strengthen” its message of “harmony and equality”. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has sent out the invite to presidents of the parties this evening. The list of invited parties includes […]
Jammu: BJP national general secretary B L Santhosh asked the party’s Jammu and Kashmir unit on Wednesday to gear up for assembly polls. At a meeting with senior party leaders of the Union territory, he laid emphasis on strengthening party units at booth and assembly constituency levels. He asked party in-charges to focus on winning […]
Srinagar: The Government has designated six more courts to try offences under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)-1967 in the Kashmir Valley. In a notification, the government has notified six courts for trial of offences under the UAPA in 10 districts of Kashmir. Earlier there were only three designated courts for trial of offences under […]
Srinagar: Police on Wednesday apprehended a man in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir after seizing more than Rs 57 lakh in cash from him. Syed Irfan Abdullah was held in the presence of a magistrate following the recovery of Rs 57.43 lakh in cash, which was concealed in a geyser, at Laribal in Kupwara, […]
Also Orders Investigators To Find Out Roles Of Education Ministers Since 2000 Onwards Jammu: A court Jammu on Wednesday directed constitution of a Special Investigation Team to be headed by an IPS Officer of at least SSP rank to conduct “further investigation into huge scandal” pertaining to Elementary Teachers Training Course (ETTC) in the erstwhile […]
Jammu, Jan 11: In the aftermath of the 2nd Chief Secretaries Conference chaired by Prime Minister recently the Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta took a detailed review of way forward for achieving different objectives set out during the conference. The meeting was attended by all the Administrative Secretaries, DG Budget, Directors of Finance of […]