Editorial: A saner session

Srinagar: As the budget session of the assembly is all set to be taking place in Jammu, the government has started its exercise of reaching out to the opposition members. The sessions that is scheduled during the first week of January is all the more important as the autumn session of the assembly that was […]

Fire destroys three houses in Verinag village

Anantnag: At least four families comprising of 30 members were rendered homeless on Friday after three houses damaged in a massive blaze. Reports said that the fire occurred due to an electric short circuit in one of the houses located in Heward area of Verinag in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The blaze spread to three […]

CS chairs 13th Dal Monitoring Committee meet

Jammu: Chief Secretary B B Vyas Friday chaired the 13th meeting of the Monitoring Committee for Preservation and Conservation of Dal-Nageen Lake. Amicus Curie, Zaffar Ahmad Shah, Special DG, PHQ, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Commissioner/Secretary H&UDD, Secretary Tourism, Secretary, Law Justice & Parliamentary Affairs, Secretary (Technical) Forest Department VC LAWDA, and other senior officers […]

KU VC chairs meet of college principals

Srinagar: Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir Prof Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi chaired a meeting of college principals to discuss various academic and examination-related issues. The meeting, apart from deliberating on academic and examination schedules, held a detailed discussion on repeated requests and representations—especially through print media—from students that their 5th and 6th semester examinations be […]

Move beyond cosmetic measures: Er Rasheed to Indo-Pak

  Srinagar: Reacting on granting of visa to five Pakistani children by Indian external affairs ministry for providing them treatment in India, Awami Itehaad party (AIP) president and MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh Friday appealed both the countries to move beyond cosmetic measures. “While granting visa to Pakistani children is a welcome move but […]

JKLF condemns ban on JRL’s ‘Public Jalsa’

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Friday said that the ban on peaceful JRL rally (Jalsa) in Islamabad has once again proved that India and the local government have no guts to compete with resistance camp politically. “Curfew, restrictions, spree of arrests and other oppressive measures are example of Kashmir being a police state,” […]

Dy CM reviews progress of projects in Power, other sectors

Jammu: Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today called for early accomplishment of various developmental initiatives especially in the Housing&Urban Development and Power sectors. He said timelines shall also have to be strictly adhered to in the projects taken up under the Prime Minister’sDevelopmentalPackage (PMDP). The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking during a review meeting […]

Minister inaugurates LMD Working Standards Lab

Kathua: Minister for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and Tribal Affairs Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today inaugurated Working Standard Laboratory of Legal Metrology Department at Kathua constructed at the cost of Rs. 66 lakh. The Minister, while speaking on the occasion, said the Legal Metrology Department has been entrusted with a noble responsibility of safeguarding […]

Panama: ED seizes over Rs 48 cr assets of Ahmedabad firm

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today said it has seized assets worth Rs 48.87 crore, under the FEMA law, of an Ahmedabad-based company in connection with its probe in the Panama Papers case. The central probe agency identified the firm as Ms Sintex Industries Limited and said it is linked to Amit Patel and […]

CS reviews progress on IIM Jammu, out-campus Kashmir

Jammu: Chief Secretary, B B Vyas Friday chaired a meeting here to review the progress on the setting up of the permanent campus of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu at Jagti Nagrota and IIM out campus in Kashmir. Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, Director Colleges, Jammu, Additional Commissioner in the office […]