Srinagar: Students of Kashmir University (KU) on Wednesday staged a protest on the campus against the ‘disappearance’ of a student last week. The protests continued for third consecutive day today as the students boycotted classes and protested seeking the whereabouts of the missing student. Pertinently, a student of applied Geology, Department of earth sciences, Sameer […]
Srinagar: Scores of undergraduate students from Government Degree College for women on Wednesday held a protest demonstration in the college ground in South Kashmir’s Anantnag area against the Kashmir University authorities demanding reduction of syllabus of their 5th and 6th semesters. Raising Slogans, ‘We want justice’ ‘reduce syllabus by 50 per cent for 5th and […]
Handwara: The students of Government Higher Secondary School Behnipora Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district Wednesday staged protest against the non-availability of the required teaching staff in the institute. Reports said that the students marched from the school amid sloganeering to protest against what they termed as the apathy of the higher ups. Protesting […]
Srinagar: Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA), Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali Wednesday revealed that the department has made a history by saving more than 2.50 lakh quintals of food grains in Kashmir division for the current financial year. The Minister provided the information after taking stock of supply position of food grains […]
Jammu: Terming the High Density Apple plantation as a game changer for the horticulture industry of the State, Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has stressed on further propagation of the scheme and incentives among orchardists to achieve optimal results. Chairing a review meeting in this regard, the Chief Minister asked for adopting a convergent approach by […]
Srinagar: The 39th Empowered Committee (EC) meeting on Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the State of Jammu & Kashmir was held on Tuesday. The meeting was chaired by Ashok Kumar Mattu, General Manager, RBI, Jammu. Vagish Chander Sharma, Executive President, JKB, Vinay,Sawhney, Vice President, JKB, B S Raina, DGM, Punjab National Bank, […]
Jammu: Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh Wednesday said that the government is committed to ensure timely implementation of the Power For All initiative taken up by Prime Minister The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking after launching the initiative of providing power to 53 un-electrified villages of five districts covering Kishtwar, Kupwara, Bandipora, Leh and […]
Kathua: Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology Ch Lal Sing Wednesday said that government has decided to go for a major facelift of Gateway of Jammu & Kashmir, Lakhanpur to attract tourists and project its geostrategic importance. The Minister said this while kick starting the repair of 1 Km road from New Toll Post […]
Srinagar: Director Agriculture Kashmir, Syed Altaf Aijaz Andrabi Wednesday today kick-started the sale of different varieties of vegetable seedlings at Kitchen Garden Nursery Lalmandi. The sale witnessed huge rush of vegetable growers from Srinagar and adjacent areas. Interacting with the farmers on the occasion, Director Agriculture Kashmir said that department is committed to promote the […]
Sundebani: Four militants, who were part of a suicide squad, were killed in a day-long encounter with security forces in the Sunderbani area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, the police said. The fidayeen, or suicide attackers, had infiltrated into the Indian territory from across the Line of Control (LoC) about four-five days ago, prompting […]