Srinagar: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar has expressed serious concern that Mirwaiz Umar Farooq could not offer Friday prayers at Srinagar’s Jama Masjid Srinagar. The Auqaf in a statement expressed strong resentment against the undue restrictions imposed on Mirwaiz and condemned “dictatorial behaviour of authorities, terming it extremely unfortunate”. “Due to the continued detention of […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a batch of pleas, including one seeking steps for enforcing a two-child norm to control the rising population, saying it is for the government to look at the issue. Citing media reports about India’s population stabilising despite the rise in births, the apex court said […]
United Nations: India has slammed Pakistan after it raked the Jammu and Kashmir issue during a plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly on Security Council reforms, saying Islamabad’s desperate attempts to peddle falsehoods and its bad habit of abusing the sanctity of multilateral forums deserves the international community’s collective contempt. The General Assembly held […]
Washington: The Biden administration has declared that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince should be considered immune from a lawsuit over his role in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a turnaround from Joe Biden’s passionate campaign trail denunciations of Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal slaying. The administration on Thursday said the senior position of the […]
Reviews progress under District Capex Budget 2022-23 JAMMU: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta today impressed upon all the Administrative Secretaries including Deputy Commissioners and other Sectoral heads to plan well and make a proper strategy to complete the target of over two lakh works under different Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS). Dr Mehta made these […]
Seeks comparative progress report for past three years JAMMU: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo, today convened a meeting to review availability of seeds in agriculture and allied sectors at the civil secretariat. Director Agriculture, Kashmir, apprised the ACS of schemes for agrostology, potato development, seed production and floriculture development besides highlighting […]
DC stresses on hassle free public transport services to the people SRINAGAR: A delegation of City Transport Unions Friday called on Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad here and put forth their issues in a meeting held at Conference Hall of DC Office Complex. Besides, SSP Traffic, Muzaffar Ahmad and Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr […]
Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today attended the joint annual function of three schools run by Shrimati Dewanini V.Badrinath Educational Trust, here at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium, University of Jammu. The Lt Governor congratulated the Trust for its immense contribution in the education sector of Jammu & Kashmir. Our cities and villages are witnessing rapid […]
SRINAGAR: Srinagar Smart City Limited (SSCL) on Friday conducted a stakeholders consultation on Smart City Projects at the Auditorium of Department of Information and Public Relations, Srinagar. The consultation saw participation of people from different walks of life to discuss and deliberate on the projects of the Srinagar Smart City and how well the life […]
United Nations: India said that prior to the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, New Delhi had been implementing developmental and capacity-building projects in the war-torn country with a commitment of over three billion dollars but the change in the political situation has resulted in slowing down of its projects “for different reasons.” The statement […]