New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rapped the Jammu and Kashmir administration over unscientific dumping and disposal of solid waste, saying it cannot play with the lives of the people. A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and C T Ravikumar dismissed a plea by Municipal Committee of Bandipora against imposition of environmental compensation of […]
New Delhi: Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo has said she was stopped from flying to the United States by immigration authorities at the Delhi airport “despite having a valid visa and ticket”. The 28-year-old photojournalist, who was awarded the Pulitzer for the coverage of COVID pandemic for Reuters, was scheduled to fly to New […]
Jammu: Nearly 70 passengers stranded after suspension of traffic on the Mughal road here due to heavy snowfall in high altitude areas have been rescued and the road cleared of snow, officials said on Wednesday. However, traffic on the road connecting Poonch in Jammu with South Kashmir’s Shopian has been put on halt due to […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday elected Mallikarjun Kharge as its president, the first non-Gandhi to head the party in 24 years at a time the 137-year-old party is struggling to reverse its slide in the country’s electoral politics. A staunch Gandhi family loyalist from Karnataka, the 80-year-old leader defeated Shashi Tharoor in an electoral […]
Leh/Jammu, Oct 19 (PTI) An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale hit Ladakh on Wednesday, the National Centre for Seismology said. The epicentre of the tremor, recorded at 8.07 am, was 135 km north-east of Leh belt of the union territory, it said. The officials said there were no reports of any damage. […]
‘Need to transform JK’s universities into economic growth centres’ Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired the first meeting of J&K Higher Education Council here at Raj Bhawan Auditorium. The Lt Governor stressed on the need to develop a pragmatic roadmap to enhance the potential of human resources and progressively transform J&K’s universities into economic […]
BUDGAM: District Development Commissioner Budgam, S F Hamid chaired a review meeting regarding arrangements for the annual Urs of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani (RA) today, here. The meeting was attended by ADDC Budgam Dr Akhramullah tak, ADC Budgam Dr Nasir, CPO Abdul Rashid, SDM Charar i Sharief, SDPO Charar i Sharief , DySp traffic, Arto Budgam, […]
Inspects various developmental works in area SRINAGAR: To reach out to the people living in the rural areas of the District to address their grievances, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad undertook an extensive tour of remote/hilly area of Fakir Gujri in Harwan Panchayat Block of District and presided over a Public Grievance […]
Addresses Public Sabha at Langate, Lays foundation stone of WSS Athroota Kupwara: Minister of State for Law and Justice Prof. S.P Singh Baghel today said that it was a matter of pleasure that Kashmir is witnessing a sea-change in the field of peace, prosperity and development following the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A. The […]
Patwar Khanas in all halqas made functional ANANTNAG: As the part of ongoing Jan Abhiyan, camps are being established by Revenue department in various tehsils of Anantnag in order to distribute Land Pass books among the beneficiaries. The land pass books are being generated as a consequence to the extensive digitization of revenue records taken […]