Washington: It’s the sovereign right of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to decide on the oil production capacities, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said Friday. Refraining from commenting on the controversial decision of OPEC on cutting oil production by two million barrels a day, which has taken the world […]
Guwahati: BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday claimed no other party in the country has the “ideology, intention and strength” to fight the might of the saffron party, which is “on the rise”. Addressing a party workers’ meet here after inaugurating the new office of the Assam BJP, Nadda asserted that his party is […]
New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers of running away from their constitutional duties and said he has not received any “satisfactory reply” from the AAP government over issues related to excise policy, power subsidy and other matters raised by him. Amid an ongoing letter war […]
Srinagar: The School Education Department on Friday said that it has decided to implement the Uniform Academic Calendar and changed the November session to March in Kashmir. An order issued by the Principal Secretary, School Education Department said that annual examinations will be held in March from now onwards. Also, new admissions will also commence […]
Srinagar: The government’s Fee Fixation Committee (GFFC) has approved a hike in transportation fee by 14 percent for private schools in both Jammu and Kashmir divisions. The committee, however, said that the hike would be applicable from March 2022. The committee has said that the information provided by various stakeholders shows a huge yawning gap […]
Anantnag: The dangerous state of electricity supply infrastructure here in Kamad area of Anantnag district has the residents terrified, in particular for the safety of school going kids. A High Tension (HT) transmission line runs right through a school, while a 250 KVA transformer in Herpora area of Kamad has remained on a road intersection […]
Washington: The US on Friday asked its citizens to exercise “increased caution” while travelling to India due to “crime and terrorism” and advised them to not to travel to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In a new travel advisory issued on Friday, the US State Department reduced the India Travel Advisory Level to […]
Jammu: Five persons were apprehended and booked under sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the recent recovery of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Poonch district, police said on Friday. The IED was smuggled in from across the Line of Control (LoC) and recovered from a woman at Parade Park in […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina on Friday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent public rallies will change the political discourse in the Union territory. Shah’s rallies in Rajouri in Jammu province on Tuesday and north Kashmir’s Baramulla on Wednesday witnessed a massive public participation. “These mega rallies will prove to be […]
New Delhi: India has conveyed its objections to the US over the recent visit to Pakistan-administered-Kashmir (PaK) by the American Ambassador to Islamabad, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday. India also took objections to the US ambassador to Pakistan holding some meetings in PaK. “We have conveyed our objections to the visit,” […]