Mulls salary hike, development plan, security, accommodation to Corporators if elected Mayor
Srinagar: Srinagar mayor candidate Sheikh Mohammad Imran who is fighting for the post of Srinagar Mayor on Saturday said that he has come out with separate plans for councilors, Srinagar city and COVID-19 management. Sheikh Mohammad Imran filed his nomination papers for Srinagar Mayor Election today with the election being held on Tuesday. While addressing […]
KUPWARA: With an aim to control the spread of COVID-19 infection, District Magistrate Kupwara Anshul Garg today imposed restrictions under section 144 CrPC and section 34 of Disaster Management Act on any public or vehicular movement within the district including town areas of Kupwara, Handwara and Langate from July 12 to July 14, 2020. An […]
PULWAMA: Employees of State Forest Development Corporation Kashmir on Saturday staged a protest here in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The protesting employees were demanding pending salary, implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations and benefits of equal DA(Dearness Allowance). Around a hundred employees of Pir Panchaal Range under the banner All Jammu and Kashmir Forest Corporation […]
Srinagar: The VC Kashmir University Prof Talat Ahmad flagged off a week -long awareness cum essential kit distribution program, related to safety against the COVID-19. The programme organised by the Department of Students Welfare (DSW) University of Kashmir is for the registered orphanages and specially-abled persons of the valley. While inaugurating the program/campaign Prof. Talat […]
Srinagar: Peoples Conference general secretary Imran Raza Ansari on Saturday asked authorities to allow MBBS students who have completed their degrees from foreign countries to sit in the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination ( FMGE). In a statement, Ansari said that students who have completed their final MBBS examination in March 2020 from different countries including […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Mohammad Ashraf Mir on Saturday asked the J&K government to go for reduction in school curriculum especially for Board examination to ease the stress on students in view of the COVID-19 emergency. Addressing a meeting of workers of Sonwar-Srinagar constituency at party office […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Forum has expressed concern over some of the vague decisions of authorities of opening gardens and parks and starting community classes for children at a time when there is a surge in the positive cases of the deadly pandemic of COVID-19. JKCSF Chairman Abdul Qayoom Wani in a statement […]
NEW DELHI: Former United States national security advisor John Bolton has said that if the Sino-India border tensions escalate, there is no guarantee that US President Donald Trump will back India against China. China has been behaving in a belligerent fashion all around its periphery, certainly in the East and South China sea, and its […]
NEW DELHI: With a record single-day increase of 27,114 cases, India’s Covid-19 tally zoomed past the eight-lakh mark on Saturday, just four days after crossing the seven-lakh post, according to health ministry data. This was the eighth consecutive day that Covid-19 cases in the country increased by more than 22,000. According to data updated at […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appreciated the efforts of the Centre, state and local authorities in containing the Covid-19 situation in Delhi and directed that similar approach be adopted with other state governments in checking the pandemic in the entire NCR area. He made these remarks at a meeting to review the […]