KOLKATA — Another member of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s family has made her entry into West Bengal politics. Mamata’s sister-in-law, Kajari Banerjee, will be a candidate in the Kolkata civic body polls on 19 December. She will be contesting on a Trinamool Congress (TMC) ticket from Ward 73, where Mamata resides. A social worker by […]
WASHINGTON — Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues with Amazon Web Services, the company said in […]
JAMMU — Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta today chaired a meeting to review the functioning of the School Education Department and progress achieved under various schemes during the ongoing financial year. Administrative Secretaries of the departments of Finance, School Education, besides Directors School Education, Jammu/Kashmir, and Director, Samagra Shiksha participated in the meeting. It […]
JAMMU — Asking BJP led government to stop spreading hatred by pitching people against people on religious lines, National Conference chief Dr Farooq Abdullah Tuesday said that his father Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah had acceded to “Gandhi’s India not Godse’s” India and situation will continue to remain grime in J&K unless what has been snatch is […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday directed all her party office bearers not to react to the statement that may be detrimental to the unity of PAGD. Her statement comes after a woman NC leader launched a scathing attack on Mehbooba by alleging that PDP chief was responsible all the mess in […]
JAMMU — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired a preliminary meeting with the Chairman and MD of Olectra Greentech Ltd, Sh KV Pradeep, and discussed the modalities for introducing electric buses for cleaner, better inter-city and intra-city transport facilities in the UT of J&K. During the meeting, the Lt Governor observed that electric vehicles are […]
AGRA — A local court in Agra has extended the judicial custody of three Kashmiri students, who were arrested for allegedly cheering Pakistan’s victory and sharing pro-Pakistan posts after the India-Pakistan T20 World Cup match, till December 20. The trio named Arsheed Yusuf, Inayat Altaf Sheikh, and Showkat Ahmed Ghani, are the students of Raja […]
NEW DELHI — Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi-led Central government, saying that “the India of Mahatma Gandhi is gradually turning into the India of Nathuram Godse.” The remarks were a reference to the conventional symbolism that’s traditionally used to […]
SRINAGAR — The Crime Branch Kashmir on Tuesday said that an accused who was evading arrest for three years in connection with a case involving preparation of fake marks certificates in order to get admission in different colleges of Valley has been arrested. The Crime Branch said that the accused Aejaz Ahmad Malik son of […]
SRINAGAR — Islamia College Of Science and Commerce here on Tuesday ordered closure of the institution till December 11 for all kinds of activities after some staff members tested positive for covid-19. In view of “surge” in Covid-19 cases, the college had arranged testing of staff members and students starting from today in a phased […]