Bandipora: Deputy Commissioner Bandipora, Dr Owais Ahmad on Tuesday launched the Sparsh Leprosy Awareness Campaign 2021 at Mini-Secretariat Bandipora. The program was organized jointly by District administration Bandipora and Chief Medical Office Bandipora. Chief Medical Officer Bandipora Dr Bashir Ahmad and other senior officers were present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, DC Bandipora […]
SRINAGAR: Police have arrested six drug peddlers in Srinagar and Budgam and recovered psychotropic and contraband substances from their possession. In Srinagar, officers at a checkpoint established at Garikadal Hamdanya Colony intercepted a vehicle Swift bearing registration No. JK01AK-2862 with three persons on board. They have been identified as Owais Ahmad Malik resident of Nundrish […]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed to significantly enhance capital expenditure to Rs 5.54 lakh crore in the next fiscal, besides creating institutional structures and giving a big thrust to monetising assets to achieve the goals of the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP). Sitharaman said the NIP, which was launched in December 2019 […]
More than 1 lakh crore rupees for central armed forces New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has received an allocation of Rs 1,66,547 crore in the 2021-22 budget, an increase of 11.48 per cent from the current fiscal, with a majority of the funds going to the central armed police forces and a […]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her statement of the budget on Monday said that a gas pipeline project will be taken up in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Lieutenant Governor of J&K Manoj Sinha lauded the central government for announcing the project. “I thank Prime Minister Narendra Modiji and Union Home […]
Srinagar: No Covid-19 related death was reported in Jammu and Kashmir in the last 24 hours up to Monday evening. The government’s daily Covid-19 bulletin said that 44 new positive cases were reported in J&K in the last 24 hours, 8 from Jammu division and 36 from Kashmir division. The bulletin said that 83 patients […]
Jammu: Both government and private schools reopened for Classes 9 and 12 on Monday in the summer zone of Jammu division amid strict COVID-19 protocol, more than 10 months after they were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Jammu and Kashmir administration had on Friday ordered the reopening of all government and recognised private […]
Alert in 10-km radius area around Athwajan, Peer Bagh Srinagar: Srinagar district on Monday reported the first cases of avian influenza in dead crows, which were spotted in two places, authorities said. The district administration tweeted this afternoon that dead crows lifted from the area near Delhi Public School at Athwajan and the Flood Spill […]
Baramulla: Bird flu has been officially declared in Hardshiva village in Sopore, and surveillance of birds increased to arrest further spread. On Monday morning, locals of Hardshiva village spotted some dead crows in their locality and informed officials in the administration about them. A team of the animal husbandry department reached the spot and took […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir State Election Commission on Monday overruled all objections and representations filed against its draft reservation order for offices of District Development Council last week, clearing the decks for elections to DDC chairpersons in the Union Territory. It was found that none of the objections/ representations so received had any merit. […]