Srinagar: Former BJP president and Union Home Minister Amit Shah said it is an “all-inclusive and visionary” Budget that will give further impetus to the Modi government’s resolve for building a self-reliant India by taking every section along. In a series of tweets in Hindi with the hashtag ‘#AmritKaalBudget’, Shah said the target of increasing […]
New Delhi: The central Budget 2023-24 on Wednesday allocated Rs 35,581.44 crore to Jammu and Kashmir, the majority of it being central assistance for the union territory. Other union territories — Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Puducherry and Delhi — too got their share. According […]
Srinagar; The National Conference (NC) on Wednesday described the Union budget as a “big flop” and “jugglery of words”, saying the only takeaway from it was that it was presented by a woman finance minister under a woman president. “It was jugglery of words and there was nothing else in the budget. Except for playing […]
Srinagar: The Union Budget is not people-friendly as it has been prepared keeping in mind the interests of a few businessmen, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Wednesday. Talking to reporters here, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said the budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is the same […]
Jammu/Delhi: The Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha has expressed gratitude to Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the first budget of Amrit Kaal that will put the country on a faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth path to achieve the goal of 5 Trillion Dollar economy. The Lt Governor said: The […]
21 Feigners’, 2 Local Guides Rescued Srinagar: A massive avalanche hit the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s ski resort Gulmarg on Wednesday, killing two Polish tourists and trapping 21 skiers who were rescued from the slopes that had been declared a “no go zone”, police said. The Hapatkhud Kangdori area where the accident took […]
Anantnag: Thousands of people still need potable, clean drinking water – here in Breenthi area of Dilagam in the Anantnag district – as a significant part of a water supply scheme still needs to be completed, more than four years after the work was first started on it. Breenthi is one of the largest villages […]
Srinagar: The anti-encroachment drive launched in Jammu and Kashmir is a new “weapon” for the BJP government to “persecute” people and uproot them from their homes, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Wednesday. Talking to reporters here, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister called upon the people of the Union Territory to unite in […]
Srinagar: A total of 20 shops were sealed in a market here on Wednesday, with officials claiming that they were built on land that had been occupied illegally. The shopkeepers, however, said they were paying rent regularly to the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC). Around 20 shops were sealed at the Aftab Market in Lal Chowk […]
Jammu: The Power Development Department has terminated the services of Bashir Ahmad Shah as In-charge Assistant Executive Engineer (Electric). The termination order has been issued in terms of Article-128 and Article-113 of J&K Civil Service Regulations (Volume-I) of 1956 vide government order number 18-JK(PDD) of 2023 dated 31-01-2023. “Pertinently, the Jammu and Kashmir government, in […]