SRINAGAR — Pakistan has denied use of its airspace to Go First’s Srinagar-Sharjah flight, the government officials said on Wednesday. According to officials, Pakistan’s refusal on Tuesday forced the flight to take a longer route and fly over Gujarat to reach its destination in the UAE. Go First, previously known as GoAir, had started direct […]
JAMMU — Eighteen-year-old Tanmay Gupta from Jammu has created history by becoming the first from Jammu and Kashmir to be the national topper of NEET 2021. He scored the perfect 720 out of 720 and secured All India Rank 1 among more than 16 lakh students who appeared in national-level test September 12. “I am […]
NEW DELHI — A former Supreme Court judge has said that celebrating a Pakistani cricket win over India is by no means sedition and it’s ridiculous to think it is. Justice Deepak Gupta said the tweet from the Office of the Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh stating that the Kashmiri students in Agra who celebrated […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Conference on Friday has flayed the knee jerk reaction of the UP government to invoke severe charges against the Kashmiri students in Agra, terming such measures a blatant violation of constitutional rights and an overreach. In a statement issued here, the spokesman has said that slapping of such charges is a blatant […]
SRINAGAR — The Secretary school education Jammu and Kashmir, Bishwajit Kumar Singh Friday refuted rumours that there will be no borad examination for class 8th and 9th, while stating that final decision is yet to be made. Talking to Kashmir News Service, Singh said that no final decision has been made yet about the final […]
SRINAGAR — The family of a Kashmiri student from Bandipora district on Friday staged a protest in Srinagar and demanded immediate release of their son who has been arrested under sedation charges in Utter Pradesh’s Agra. The family members of Showkat Ahmad Ganie from Bandipora assembled at Srinagar’s press enclave here. The family said that […]
SRINAGAR — The Administrative Council (AC) has approved naming of schools, roads and buildings after martyrs and eminent persons under the ongoing “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” celebrations. Farooq Khan and Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisors to the Lieutenant Governor, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary, J&K and Nitishwar Kumar, Principal Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor attended […]
SRINAGAR — The government has said that term-end board examinations of 8th and 9th standard shall be conducted at school level for the current session in face-to-face offline mode. Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), Tassaduq Hussain Mir said that the examination for these classes would be conducted by the concerned schools and they shall […]
PULWAMA — Today 55 Rashtriya Rifles of Indian Army organized a competition event in the name of ‘RUBARU’ 2021 in collaboration with Noorani Paramedical Traning Institute in South Kashmir, Pulwama. The topics on the event was Gender equality, Health care system, Basic sensitization, Social Media, Education system, women safety etc. Students almost 150/170 from different […]
SRINAGAR — The families of Kashmiri engineering students who were arrested under sedation charges in Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) Agra on Wednesday for celebrating Pakistan’s win against India in the T20 World Cup match, have appealed to the government to release them on humanitarian ground or otherwise their entire careers will be ruined. On last Tuesday […]