New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anantnag Justice (Retd) Hasnain Masoodi on Monday sought regularization and removal of pay anomalies of daily-wager and contractual employees in J&K. In a letter addressed to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Masoodi highlighted the grave problems faced by daily rated, temporary, casual, contractual, […]
Srinagar: Police in Baramulla have arrested 14 gamblers and seized stake money from their possession. Besides, a notorious drug peddler was detained under PSA. Acting on specific information, police parties from Police Station Kunzer and Police Station Pattan raided gambling sites at Takiya Batpora, Hardu Aboora, Hanjiwera Bala & Kripalpora Payeen following an input about […]
Srinagar: Police have arrested two drug peddlers in Kulgam and recovered contraband substances and illicit liquor from their possession. On a specific input, a Police Party from Police Station Qazigund conducted a raid at specific location in village Check Badwani Qazigund. During checking, officers were able to recover 2Kgs of Poppy Straw and 45 bottles […]
JAMMU: Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, Atal Dulloo, today launched e-abgari portal of Excise Department in presence of Excise Commissioner J&K, Kishore Singh Chib; Deputy Excise Commissioner, Accounts Amarjeet Singh; Addl SIO, NIC, Salim Khan; Senior Programmer, Sandeep Kumar and other officers from Finance and NIC. Officers of NIC West Bengal also joined through virtual mode. […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged recipients of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar to support the ‘Vocal for Local’ campaign and said the youth is at the centre of all policies being framed by government. During an online interaction with the awardees, Modi also talked about the unveiling of the hologram […]
NEW DELHI: India logged 3,06,064 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,95,43,328, while the active cases climbed to 22,49,335, the highest in 241 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll has climbed to 4,89,848 with 439 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 […]
NEW DELHI: The minimum temperatures in northwest and central India are likely to drop by three to five degrees Celsius over the next five days, leading to cold day conditions in Delhi and a cold wave in parts of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Cold day to severe cold day conditions are […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday warned the Opposition parties that he would be more dangerous if they forced him to step down as he ruled out granting any concession to them.Responding to a question about the planned long march by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on March 23 during live calls by […]
PAMPORE:P An Asha worker from a far-flung area of Pampore town in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district has won accolades after saving life of a pregnant lady who delivered on way to hospital. Rafiqa wife of Mohammad Qasim Goursi, an ASHA worker for Babseer village which falls under PHC Ladhoo in Pampore medical block, has won […]
KUPWARA: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kupwara, Imam Din today convened a meeting of District Tuberculosis Forum committee to review the progress under National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) in the district. The meeting was informed that 523687 persons have been screened in all 10 medical blocks of the district from December last year, of which 12539 […]