Students protest, demand action
BARAMULLA: Students of government high school Binner Baramulla on Saturday staged a protest after outsiders misbehaved with their teachers. Sources said that scores of students took to the streets and staged a protest. They were demanding strict action against outsiders who misbehaved with their teachers on Friday. They said on Friday some stranger entered into […]
SRINAGAR: An assistant sub-inspector of Jammu and Kashmir police was arrested on Saturday after a video purportedly showing him demanding and accepting bribe inside a police station in Kishtwar district went viral on social media. ASI Abdul Subhan, posted at Kishtwar police station, has also been placed under suspension and a department inquiry has been […]
Srinagar: The School Education Department has put lives of more than 200 students and of their teachers at risk by cramming them into a decrepit building that is about to fall apart. Students of Government Primary School, Channa Mohalla, and Government Primary School, Watakullo, in Chrar-i-Sharief zone of Budgam were clubbed in 2015 and housed […]
JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu Thursday launched “Student Health Card”, saying it is part of government’s comprehensive school health education plan to ensure better healthcare for school children and facilitate their all-round development. “These Student Health Cards shall be distributed to all the government schools for maintaining a proper health record of all enrolled […]
JAMMU: A senior government official was among several people booked by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for alleged embezzlement of funds meant for Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. The case was registered against M S Choudhary, the Chief-Executive Officercum- Managing Director of State Procurement and Supplies Agency, and others after […]
AWANTIPORA: Police on Thursday said it has solved vehicle battery theft case and arrested three. The accused persons have been identified as Mohammad Amin Khan, son of Abdul Khaliq, resident of Tulbagh Pampore, Mohammad Younis Wagay, son of Abdul Ahad and Feroz Ahmad Rather, son of Ghulam Qadir, residents of Preng Hajin Sumbal, Bandipora. Police […]
JAMMU: Two passengers with a travel history to Italy and South Korea have been shifted to the quarantine ward at a government medical college hospital in Jammu, officials said on Wednesday. Jammu and Kashmir has been put on alert to deal with any threat emerging due to coronavirus, even though no positive case has been […]
JAMMU: The government on Wednesday appointed several officers to ramp up efforts for prevention and control of coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the order issued by the GAD, Bhupinder Kumar, Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM), J&K, shall be the overall in-charge of the coronavirus control efforts at the in J&K. He will […]
TRAL: The revenue officials accompanied by other departments in Tral carried out demolition drive in the area razing more than 50 shops that had been illegally erected in the town. Additional deputy Commissioner of the area A R Raina, led the operation said that notices were served to the persons who had constructed these illegal […]
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today sought the Centre’s response on a plea filed by a Budgam resident regarding the evacuation of J&K students and other persons from coronavirus hit Iran. The High Court directed the administrations of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to ensure creation of proper isolation and quarantine facilities besides testing […]