Scheme meant to turn bio-waste into cooking fuel
SRINAGAR: A year after J&K was declared as Open Defecation Free (ODF) on 2nd October 2018, the government has failed to implement one of the key schemes of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) (SBM-G) in rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir. Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBAR-DHAN) scheme was launched in February 2018 to make the […]
SRINAGAR: Radio Kashmir is now “All India Radio Kashmir”, according to an official decree issued on Friday. This effect comes a day after the state was officially divided into two union territories. Set up in 1947 by the Jammu and Kashmir government and had been part of All India Radio (AIR) since 1950s, the radio […]
Jammu: Four people were killed and six others were injured when an SUV hit a divider and overturned on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Jammu district on Thursday morning, police officials said. The vehicle was carrying ten persons, mostly labourers from Bihar, to Jammu when the accident took place at Jajjar Kotli around 4 am, […]
SHOPIAN: Lack of funds has halted the work of district hospital Shopain started in the year 2008, which according to doctors and locals has affected patientcare. People blame government for intentionally delaying the construction of hospital building. The hospital building is being constructed by Jammu and Kashmir projects construction corporation (JKPCC) with an estimated cost […]
Anantnag: The overburdened Maternity and Children Hospital (MCH), here in Anantnag, continues to run from a cramped, shabby, “unsafe” building, putting lives at risk and patients to inconvenience, despite better alternate spaces available for the hospital. The MCH is only one of its kind in south Kashmir witnessing a heavy footfall of patients round the […]
SRINAGAR: The Government Monday ordered the continuation of the officers and officials in the Union Territories (UTs) of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. The General Administration Department, (GAD) order reads that all Administrative Secretaries, Heads of Departments, Deputy Commissioners, other officers and officials serving in the State of Jammu and Kashmir were invited to Section […]
ANANTNAG: Following the abrogation of Article-370, people here in south Kashmir were reluctant to rent their properties to non-locals, but with the killings of outsiders by unidentified gunmen in Pulwama and Shopian districts of the region, they are now fearful of doing the same. Non-locals from different states of India flock to Kashmir and work […]
ANANTNAG: Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Khalid Jahangir Sunday reviewed the arrangements for the board examination starting from October 29 and urged the officials to ensure peaceful atmosphere. He stressed for close coordination among various stakeholders with greater synergy and added zeal for the free, fair and successful conduct of the exams. He urged the concerned officers […]
PADGAMPORA: A 30-year-old man with 40 percent disability booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) is languishing in jail for more than two months. Shabir Ahmad Wani, a tailor hailing from Padgampora village of police district Awantipora, is also the lone bread earner for a family of nine. Shabir was picked up from his home in […]
DARBHANGA (BIHAR): A Jammu and Kashmir man from whom arms and ammunition were recovered in 2016 was sent to 10 years in jail by a court in Bihar’s Darbhanga district on Friday. Additional District and Sessions Judge (IV) Inayat Kareem held Upendra Singh Thakur alias Sardar Singh guilty under different sections of Arms Act and […]