(Image: Burhan Hussaini) SRINAGAR — Local ladies on Monday offered flowers to hijab-clad students outside Kashmir University. The local ladies were seen waiting outside Kashmir University carrying flowers in their hands and they were offering the flowers to those students who had put on hijab. Hijab controversy has erupted in Indian southern state of Karnatka […]
SRINAGAR — Government on Monday ordered promotion of six IAS officers to various scales of Indian Administrative Service. According to an order, a copy of which lies with GNS, two officers—Sheetal Nanda and Saugat Biswas—have been promoted to the Super Time Scale of IAS (Level 14 of Pay matrix) with effect from 1 January 2022. […]
SRINAGAR — Amid forecast for ‘erratic weather’, night temperature increased across Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. A meteorological department official said that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, recorded a low of 1.4°C against last night’s minus 2.2°C. The temperature was above 1.2°C than the normal for this time of the year, […]
NEW DELHI — Jaimal Singh, the driver of the ill-fated bus that was blown up by a suicide bomber in Pulwama on February 14, 2019, wasn’t even supposed to drive that day and was merely substituting for another colleague, says a new book. IPS officer Danesh Rana, who is currently an additional director general of […]
JAMMU — Two men from West Bengal were detained early Sunday after one of them was spotted moving around suspiciously outside the main gate of the Indian Air Force’s technical airport in Jammu’s Satwari area, reported Times of India. According to airport authorities, the suspect was found running towards the airport area through a stream […]
JAMMU — A minor girl who was allegedly abducted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district was rescued within 36 hours of the crime, police said on Sunday. Information was received at police station Bari Brahmana on Friday regarding the kidnapping of a girl from the Lower Jallo Chak area, police said in a statement. A […]
SRINAGAR — Srinagar police on Sunday claimed to have arrested five thieves, including two involved in theft at Dastgeer Sahib Shrine in Khanyar area of Srinagar city. Police in a statement said, On 10th February 2022, Khanyar PS recieved information that a theft has taken place from donation box at Dastgeer Sahib Shrine in Khanyar […]
NEW DELHI — Records related to alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, which were being handled by the erstwhile State Human Rights Commission, are locked up in a room since the panel was wound up after the state was downgraded to a Union Territory in August 2019, according to n Right to Information […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Administration on Sunday said the educational institutions in Summer Zone of Union Territory will re-open for offline or in-person classes from (Monday) 14th of February, while as educational institutions in Winter Zone will re-open from 28th of February, 2022. All Universities, Colleges, Polytechnics, Tis, etc, shall commence routine offline […]
SOPORE — Since times immemorial, women have had to fight stereotypes and it is not uncommon even today to see girls being encouraged to be polite, while boys are not only allowed but expected to be boisterous and rowdy. To over come such stereotypes Sopore girls have set and example by trekking 14 kms along […]