Will get to know about the land ownership only after proper demarcation: DDC Kupwara, Anshul Garg
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has alleged encroachment of over 3 kanals of its land by district administration Kupwara even as the board was forced to pay over one and a half lakh rupees in rent for its sub-office in the district. The district administration has now proposed a proper […]
New tax regime a step towards doing away with all exemptions, deductions
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced cuts in personal income tax, extended tax benefits for affordable housing, and gave relief to companies on payment of dividend in the Union Budget for 2020-21. The minister proposed raising customs duty on a variety of products ranging from tableware and kitchenware, electrical appliances to footwear, […]
Peppers it with Kashmiri verse, populist measures
New Delhi: A Kashmiri verse, quotes from Tamil poets and references to Saraswati-Sindhu civilisation dotted Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s 160-minute long marathon Budget speech on Saturday which was cut short at the fag end after she felt unwell. As the minister, clad in a bright yellow sari with a light green border, delivered the longest […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her team for presenting the ‘first Budget of the decade that has vision as well as action’. “I congratulate Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her team for presenting the first Budget of the decade that has vision as well as action,” […]
New Delhi: The government has allocated Rs 30,757 crore for the newly created Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in the Budget for 2020-21 presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday. The government has provisioned Rs 279 crore as the contribution to Union Territory Disaster Response Fund while Rs 30,478 has been allocated […]
New Delhi: The 15th Finance Commission on Saturday recommended 41 per cent share in the divisible pool of taxes for states and 1 per cent for the newly created Union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh for the financial year 2020-21, thus retaining the devolution formula of the earlier Commission. The 14th Commission had […]
Srinagar: The minimum temperature at most places in Kashmir went up on Saturday providing some relief to the residents, even as the meteorological office forecast mainly dry and cold weather over the next few days in the valley. Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of minus 2.5 degrees Celsius – up over a degree from minus […]
Srinagar: The three militants killed in Jammu’s Nagrota a day ago on Srinagar-Jammu highway had left Improvised Explosive Device (IED) under a hoarding on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway which another member of the module was to use to target forces, police said on Saturday. Also, the trio affiliated with Jaish-e-Mohammad were carrying US-made sniper rifle […]
Srinagar: Street lights that remain on during the day because no one bothers to switch them off may not be seen any more. The Srinagar Municipal Corporation is set to phase out its street lights that are manually operated. Sensor-based street lights that will automatically turn on and off will now be put up. The […]
Srinagar: The government has asked the police and health officials to prepare a list of students who are pursuing their studies in China so that they can be evacuated safely and screened for Coronavirus on arrival. According to sources, Chief Secretary BVR Subramaniam has directed the officials to constitute a surveillance team in every district […]