Launches ‘Hausla 2.0’ and JK Startup portal Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha launched the ‘Hausla 2.0’ and JK Startup Portal at Srinagar, today. Building on the success of the Hausla 1.0, the inaugural batch, Hausla 2.0 seeks to enhance financial inclusion among women in Jammu Kashmir by promoting entrepreneurship and facilitating market access. In his […]
United Nations: India has called for shunning double standards in the fight against terrorism and said certain countries are using terrorism as an instrument of state policy, in a veiled jibe at Pakistan. “When we talk about international peace and security, you will agree that terrorism constitutes one of the most serious threats,” R Ravindra, […]
Sitharaman To Present Union Budget On Tuesday New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget on Tuesday as the Monsoon Session of Parliament gets underway next week with the united opposition set to corner the NDA government on issues ranging from the NEET paper leak case and railway safety. The Monsoon Session […]
New Delhi: No NEET-UG candidate has scored above 682 in the revised results for a centre in Haryana that was under the scanner after six aspirants who took the medical entrance exam there on May 5 got 720 out of 720. The scores were revised after a retest was ordered by the Supreme Court following […]
SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today chaired the UT Level Apex Committee meeting at Civil Secretariat here to review progress on implementation of National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in the twin cities of Jammu and Srinagar. The meeting among others was attended by ACS Forests, Commissioner Secretary, Housing and Urban Development, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, PCCF […]
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 22 a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and others to confiscate the amount received by various political parties under the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme of 2018. In a landmark verdict on February 15, the apex court had junked the Centre’s electoral bonds scheme of […]
Jammu: A 3.5 magnitude earthquake jolted Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Saturday, officials said. According to the National Centre of Seismology (NCS), the tremor was felt at 5.34 pm in the hilly district. The depth of the earthquake was 10 kilometers below the surface at latitude 33.29 degrees north and longitude 76.67 degrees east, […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government ha appointed Dr Rakesh Bahl as principal government medical college Doda with immediate effect. According to an order issued by secretary health Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah, Dr Bahl will take charge of the post in addition to his own duties at government medical college, Jammu. “In the interest […]
Madurai (Tamil Nadu): Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said that technological dependence had its drawbacks and cited the Microsoft outage of July 19 as a point in case. His flight from Delhi to Madurai was nearly cancelled due to the Microsoft outage, he said. “I am an ardent believer of the […]
NEW DELHI: UPSC chairman Manoj Soni has resigned citing personal reasons before the expiry of his tenure in May 2029, official sources said on Saturday. His resignation is “not in any way connected to controversies and allegations surrounding the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) after probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar issue came to the fore,” […]