Srinagar: Kashmir continued to reel under intense cold with night temperature in Srinagar dipping to minus 5.6 degree Celsius. This resulted in partial freezing of Dal Lake and water supply lines. A meteorological department official said that night temperature dipped further last night and it will dip further in coming days. The sub-zero temperatures resulted […]
Will look into the matter: DESK
Srinagar: Barely two weeks after the J&K government announced to cover all students under scholarship schemes, around 40 percent students were deprived from a government of India scholarship allegedly due to negligence by officials in the School Education department. Official data accessed by Kashmir Reader revealed that 533 students belonging to economically weaker section in […]
Jammu: BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on Friday sought to assure the people of Jammu and Kashmir that the statehood of the new Union territory will be restored before soon. Maintaining that there were only 30 to 32 prominent political leaders and less than 100 people overall are under preventive detention now in the […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has dropped ex-chief minister Sheikh Abdullah’s birth anniversary and Martyrs’ Day from its list of public holidays for 2020, but October 26 which is observed as ‘Accession Day’ figures in it. According to the list issued late on Friday night by G L Sharma, the deputy secretary of the […]
Jammu: Expressing anguish over deletion of National Conference founder Sheikh Abdullah’s birth anniversary from Jammu and Kashmir’s official holiday calendar, the party Saturday sought a review of the decision and said his contribution in the democratic awakening of his people cannot be undermined. It also called for re-launching genuine political activity in the Union territory […]
SRINAGAR: Power distribution network in future will remotely monitor and controlled after launching Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Distribution Management System (DMS) under R-APDRP Scheme for Srinagar. The contract for implementation of SCADA/DMS project in Srinagar has been awarded to G.E T&D India Limited incurring a cost of Rs.79.26 crore which includes five […]
Srinagar: For Jammu and Kashmir, 2019 was a year of massive changes with defining firsts and lasts and unprecedented curbs. On October 31, Jammu and Kashmir transitioned from a state into two union territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. This was the first time a state was downsized into union territories. The move was […]
Pani shifted to Armed Police
Srinagar: The government on Saturday posted Vijay Kumar as Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir replacing SP Pani. An order issued by home department said that Kumar who is IGP Armed Police is transferred and posted as IGP Kashmir. Kumar is a 1997 batch IPS officer. It said Pani has been posted as IGP Armed […]
Jammu: Congress’ Jammu and Kashmir unit took out a flag march here on Saturday to mark the 135th foundation day of the party, with its leaders cautioning people against “the attempts by the BJP to trample the constitutional values”. Amid chants of “save constitution – save nation”, hundreds of party workers, led by Jammu and […]
SRINAGAR: Fuel stations in Srinagar are running dry as tankers carrying petrol and diesel are being denied entry into the city. President petrol pump owners in Kashmir, Bilal Ahmad Bhat said that Traffic Police had stopped tankers at Pantha Chowk from entering into the city. “The tankers laden with petrol and diesel are bound for […]