HYDERABAD — The members of Girls Islamic Organization, Telangana (GIO) on Sunday staged a protest against the ongoing controversy in Karnataka over wearing Hijab by girls and conditions for entry into educational institutions. Scores of women carrying placards “Hijab is my right” staged a silent protest near seven tombs at Golconda. The protestors demanded that […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to lift the weekend lockdown and also permitted the coaching centres in the Union Territory to resume offline teaching with 50 per cent capacity. This was ordered by the State Executive Committee (SEC) headed by Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. However, it has stated that […]
SRINAGAR — The administration on Sunday constituted a Committee with regard to the referral of Non-Gazetted vacancies to the J&K Services Selection Board. The four-member committee headed by Administrative Secretary, ARI & Trainings Department has been tasked to check and scrutinize the details of posts i.e. designations, numbers, eligibility criteria and creation orders with the […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to shift the acid attack survivor to Chennai hospital tomorrow for eye treatment and four tickets have already been provided to the victim’s family on Sunday. Official sources said that the administration on the advice of doctors has decided to shift the acid attack victim to […]
SRINAGAR — The Editors Guild of India has condemned the arrest of Journalist Fahad Shah, the editor of the Kashmir Walla, on Friday. As per a press statement issued by the Editors Guild of India, Shah had been questioned four days earlier for his reporting on a deadly police raid in Pulwama in late January […]
SRINAGAR — Sajjad Gani Lone led Peoples Conference taking a strong exception over draft proposal of the Delimitation Commission has said it always believed that the exercise of delimitation was an attempt to disempower and disenfranchise the people of Kashmir and we still believe that this process is designed to disempower the people of Kashmir. […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kahsmir recorded 1148 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday— the lowest in the past 26 days. Nine persons also succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, the officials said. 511 of the fresh cases, they said, were reported from Jammu Division and 640 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally […]
SRINAGAR — CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami on Sunday said that the draft proposal of the Delimitation Commission has recommended a ‘strange geographical layout’ for redrawing the boundaries of several parliamentary and assembly poll constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir. “The draft proposal shared by the Commission with its associate members—as media reports suggest—seems even incongruous […]
SRINAGAR — All the vacancies recalled by a recent decision of the Administrative Council shall be referred again to recruitment agencies for fast track recruitment as per the new domicile, reservation and recruitment rules providing equal opportunity to all. A free, fair and merit based selection shall be quickly ensured. It is also clarified that […]
SRINAGAR — As the whole world as well as Jammu and Kashmir is facing an unprecedented challenge due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir Administration has amplified the medical infrastructure across the Union Territory to safeguard the lives of people and also to provide them best possible medical care facilities. In order to strengthen […]