Continuing the programme to take stock of infrastructural development activities at various tourist places in Valley, Director Tourism Kashmir Mahmood Ahmad Shah Sunday visited Aharbal Development Authority (ADA) and inspected tourism related assets there. The Director was accompanied by Project Monitoring Consultant from Government of India Umar Khan and Chief Executive Officer ADA, Mohammad Shafi […]
Minister of State for Haj, Auqaf and Power Development Department, Syed Farooq Ahmad Andrabi, Sunday toured the southern part of the Srinagar City to take stock of the Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) project. Visiting various places, including Friends Colony, Sir Syed Avenue, and Co-operative Colony, the Minister also reviewed the progress […]
Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani, Sunday said that Indian authorities, its agencies and particularly NIA is unnecessarily harassing Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leadership and its activists. According to a statement, reacting sharply over raids conducted by (NIA), Geelani said that they have been given this task just to drag and involve leadership into fabricated cases. Condemning […]
Hurriyat Conference (M) has strongly condemned the arbitrary and coercive act of raiding the house of its Media Adviser Shahid-ul-Islam and other pro-freedom activists and some members of business community by the Indian NIA in a bid to harass and scare the resistance leadership from representing the people’s sentiments and their just political struggle. Giving […]
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik on Sunday said that from mass killings to state sponsored economic terrorism against Kashmiris, so called Indian democracy stands fully exposed in Jammu Kashmir. “The hatemongering leadership of a country whose prime time television holds debates on good health and red cheeks of Kashmiris should seriously […]
Amid frequent internet shutdowns and snapping of social media by the authorities, the government is planning to sell the famous Kashmir’s handicraft products online by developing its own marketplace website on the pattern of Flipkart and Amazon. “A unique and modern site will be developed by the government to sell online our handicraft products which […]
AIP Chief and MLA Langate Er Rashid Sunday condemned the use of force and continuous atrocities on masses and traders in Anantnag town, Er. Rashid, as per the statement has brought the matter to the notice of Chief Secretary seeking “stern action against those who are misusing their authority to curb the rights of masses.” […]
Senior National Conference leader and MLA Kangan Mian Altaf Ahmed has flayed the Irrigation department for ‘failing’ to provide irrigation facilities to the farmers in several villages of Kangan constituency. In a statement, Mian Altaf said that the irrigation and flood control (I&FC) department has failed to restore the main Baba water canal here that […]
Jammu city yesterday recorded this season’s highest temperature at 43.3 degrees Celsius, the Met department announced on Sunday. “The maximum temperature was 43.3 degrees Celsius in Jammu on Saturday. This is the highest recorded here so far this season. The minimum temperature on Sunday was 25.2 degrees Celsius,” a Met official said. “Temperatures in Jammu […]
With nearly six lakh educated youth striving to get employment, the state’s response should have been much better than what it has shown over the years. Even the figures shown in the last economic survey reveal that unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir is higher than the average national unemployment rate. Interestingly, Jammu and Kashmir […]