Srinagar shivers at minus 6.5; Mughal road closed
Srinagar: Kashmir is expecting to be draped with snow on New Year as weather department predicted moderate snow in plains as well as hilly areas. Director Metrological Department Sonum Lotus told Kashmir Reader that clouds will begin to gather in the sky from Tuesday evening. This, he said, will result in light to moderate snowfall […]
Srinagar: Five political leaders, who had been under preventive detention for the past 148 days, were released from the MLA hostel on Monday by the Union Territory administration of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The leaders belonging to the National Conference and the PDP were released after the authorities were satisfied that they would not […]
Jammu: Opening the state employment in the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh for candidates from across the country after nullification of Article 370, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has invited applications from eligible candidates from all over India to fill 33 vacancies with it. The 33 vacant posts of non-gazetted officials include those […]
SRINAGAR: A project that was meant for reducing transmission and distribution (T&D) losses which is one of the main reasons for power cuts in the Valley has failed to take off three years after the stipulated deadline. The Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms program (RAPDRP) sponsored by the Government of India was meant install […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers party on Monday accused the Union territory’s government of having jeopardized the career of unemployed educated youths in J&K by opening local state jobs for outsiders, asserting that it is “unacceptable”. In a first step of its kind, opening the state employment in the Union Territories of J&K and […]
Jammu: National Conference Provincial president Devender Singh Rana on Monday demanded protection of government jobs for locals in Jammu and Kashmir, saying unemployment has alarmingly grown manifold during the recent years. “J&K government jobs are for local educated unemployed and should be reserved for local youth only,” Rana said. He expressed concern over limited avenues […]
‘People getting new vehicles have to give documentary evidence on parking spaces’
Srinagar: In order to ensure that there is effective mechanism in place to deal with private and public parking of vehicles, the High Court on Monday directed the government to come up with a policy by amending the existing norms about registration of vehicles. The court said that the owners of vehicles to be registered […]
SRINAGAR: In a major relief to over two hundred Kashmiri students, who qualified last year’s National Merit-cum Means Scholarship (NMMS), the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has extended the last date for the online registration for the scholarship in view of internet blockade and suspension of messaging services in the valley. The ministry has […]
BARAMULLA: The residents of Churanda and Batgran in Uri have demanded immediate restoration of the road connecting them to Tehsil Headquaters Uri. The residents said that this 12 km vital link that was laid under PMGSY has been blocked for more than 20 days now after a landslide trigged by rains left the link blocked […]
Srinagar: The fringes of the famous Dal Lake froze on Sunday as the mercury continued its freefall in Srinagar which experienced the coldest night of the season at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius, the MET Office said. The minimum temperature across the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh Union Territory stayed several degrees below the freezing point, intensifying […]