JAMMU — Three suspects were arrested from Jammu Airport and handed over to the police for further questioning. Official sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that Central Industrial Security Force apprehended three suspects at Jammu Airport after they produced fake Adhar Cards. The trio were scheduled to board a plane bound for Leh. Sources […]
JAMMU — Government of J&K today signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) for transforming Sheep Farming Sector in the UT. The virtual MoC signing ceremony was presided over by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha at Raj Bhawan. The MoC was signed by Sh. Navin Kumar Choudhary, Principal Secretary to J&K Government, Animal & Sheep Husbandry Department […]
SRINAGAR — The Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta today chaired a meeting to launch Digital JK, Digital Districts and Digital Panchayats campaign to bring in various e-governance initiatives on a single platform towards promoting ease of living in Jammu and Kashmir. Administrative Secretaries of departments of Health & Medical Education, School Education, Revenue, Rural […]
BANDIPORA — The Jammu and Kashmir BOSE Tuesday declared the result of class 12th exam of Kashmir division with an overall percentage of 75. GHSS Bandipora emerged as the top institute in the district to register 159 distinctions, 107 first divisions and 39 students have qualified the exams with second division. As per the figures […]
SRINAGAR — A minor girl from Srinagar was killed in road accident in Awantipora area of Pulwama district on Thursday. An official said that a vehicle bearing registeration number JK18B-6101 met with an accident at Chersoo in Awantipora area in which a minor girl received critical injuries. He said that the girl was shifted to […]
POONCH — A 25-year-old young man died after he slipped while returning home with firewood from a jungle nearby his residence in Poonch district on Thursday. Official sources told GNS that one Manzoor Hussain (25) of Ucchad Nabana who was carrying firewood from nearby jungle (forest) slipped and fell down, resulting in his on the […]
SRINAGAR — Three pistol-borne gunmen looted over Rs 1.59 lakhs from a petrol pump in Shopian district of south Kashmir while burglars broke open donation box at venerated shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Khanyar area of Srinagar and decamped with unknown amount of cash last night, officials said on Thursday. A […]
SRINAGAR — Night temperatures dropped below freezing point in Kashmir with Gulmarg recording a low of minus 10.4°C on Thursday, officials said. A meteorological department official here told GNS Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, recorded a low of minus 0.1°C against last night’s 0.6°C, he said. Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir, witnessed […]
NEW DELHI — Three days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan opposed New Delhi’s “unilateral action” on Jammu and Kashmir, India rejected reference to its “integral and inalienable parts” in the joint statement issued after the meeting between the leaders of the two neighbouring nations. “We have always rejected such […]
NEW DELHI — With the aim to rehabilitate the Kashmiri migrants back into the valley, the government has created 3,000 state government jobs under the Prime Minister’s Development Package-2015 (PMDP-2015). According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, an outlay of Rs 1,080 crores has been by the Centre for this purpose. In a written reply […]