NEW DELHI — Students with four-year undergraduate degrees can now directly appear for NET and pursue PhD, according to University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Jagadesh Kumar. To pursue a PhD with or without a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), the candidates will require a minimum of 75% marks or equivalent grades in their four-year undergraduate course. […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and Iran have agreed that the Kashmir issue should be resolved through “peaceful means based on the will of the people” of the region, said a joint statement issued by the two countries after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s maiden visit on Wednesday. President Raisi paid an official visit to Pakistan from April […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for violating its content policy. “We have removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy,” a Meta spokesperson told AFP. Though Meta did not mention the Israel-Hamas war, the […]
JAMMU — The Jammu parliamentary constituency is all set to go to polls in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections amid tight security arrangements on Friday. Over 17.81 lakh eligible voters are set to exercise their franchise across 2,416 polling stations to decide the fate of 22 candidates. The Jammu Lok Sabha seat […]
JAMMU — Three drug peddlers were arrested on Thursday from Kathua district here, and over 250 grams of heroin was recovered from their possession, police said. The accused have been identified as Sharief alias Bulli, Bhag Hussain alias Bhaga and Maskeen Ali, they said. A police team intercepted the trio in the Bhagthali area and […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference leader Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Thursday filed nomination papers for the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency which is going to polls in the fourth phase of elections next month. Accompanied by NC president Farooq Abdullah, vice president Omar Abdullah and Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Vikar Rasool, Mehdi filed the nomination […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — The Directorate of School Education, Jammu (DSEJ) on Wednesday ordered change in school timing falling in Summer Zone of Jammu division. According to an order, the schools shall observe timing as 08:00 AM to 02:00 PM w.e.f 01-05-2024 to 30-09-2024. “All the Government and Private (recognized) Schools upto Higher Secondary level falling […]
JAMMU — Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Jammu zone, Anand Jain, on Wednesday chaired a meeting to oversee election preparedness in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, police said. Reasi is part of the Jammu Lok Sabha constituency, which is going to polls in the second phase on April 26. Accompanied by Deputy Inspector General […]
JAMMU — More than 1,500 healthcare staff, including specialist doctors, will be deployed for the upcoming pilgrimage to 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said on Wednesday. Two 100-bedded hospitals, one each at Chandanwari-Pahalgam and Baltal, along with more than 100 medical centres would be set up from Lakhanpur to […]
JAMMU — As many as 16 ‘chronic’ drug peddlers were jailed under preventive detention in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Wednesday, police said. A special drive was launched against the drug peddlers, who have been booked on various occasions in drugs related activities, a police spokesman said. He said that 16 chronic peddlers have […]
JAMMU — Campaigning for the election to the Jammu Lok Sabha seat ended Wednesday evening, setting the stage for over 17.81 lakh eligible voters to exercise their franchise on April 26 to decide the fate of 22 candidates in the fray. This is the second Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir to go to […]
ANANTNAG — Democratic Progressive Azad Party chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday hit back at National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, saying the people of Jammu and Kashmir will decide who the BJP’s B or C teams are. Abdullah had earlier claimed that Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) and the Altaf Bukhari-led Apni Party as […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and Iran have agreed that the Kashmir issue should be resolved through “peaceful means based on the will of the people” of the region, said a joint statement issued by the two countries after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s maiden visit on Wednesday. President Raisi paid an official visit to Pakistan from April […]
