SRINAGAR — Government of Jammu and Kashmir is mulling to show the door to ‘non-performing’ teaching and non-teaching staff in coming days, sources privy to the development in Education Department said. Sources informed news agency Kashmir News Trust that after getting orders from the top especially from Principal Secretary to Government School Education Department Jammu […]
SRINAGAR — Despite militants and militancy in Kashmir being glamorised by vested interests, the last 32-years of conflict had a devastating effect on the lives of the widows and the children of those terrorists who were killed and left their families to fend for themselves. A recent sociological research titled: “The effects of armed conflict […]
SRINAGAR — Private Schools’ Association Jammu and Kashmir today organized a book release function in the auditorium of S.P. College Srinagar. The book titled” Bu Chus Gawah” written by noted fiction writer Anayat Bashir was released in the function. Justice (Rtd) Rashid Ali Dar was the Chief Guest on the occasion while Prof Bashar Bashir […]
SRINAGAR — The Government Degree Colleges in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall observe winter vacation from December 27, 2021, the government announced on Thursday. According to an order issued by Principal Secretary to the Government Higher Education Department, Rohit Kansal, all Government Degree Colleges of the Union Territory of J&K shall observe […]
SRINAGAR — The families from north Kashmir’s Bandipora on Thursday staged a protest against the arrest of their beloved, demanding their immediate release. The protesting families alleged that their beloved have been detained before two months for no reason. The wife of one among the detained person, Muhammad Salman Gojar, said, “My husband has been […]
SRINAGAR — Crime Branch Kashmir has produced a charge-sheet against five persons including Executive Engineer R&B Division Pulwama for fraudulently preparing a fictitious family pension case in which daughter-in-law was shown as the wife of the deceased man. An official of the Crime Branch Kashmir said that the chargesheet in the case (FIR No. 09/2017) […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities on Thursday suspended traffic movement on Mughal, Bandipora-Gurez and Sonamarg-Zojila roads due to fresh snowfall in upper reaches of Kashmir valley. The historic Mughal Road connecting Poonch district of Jammu province with Shopian in south Kashmir has been closed for all kinds of vehicular traffic, owing to fresh snowfall in upper reaches […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Thursday claimed to have averted a major tragedy by destroying an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Wanpora village on Newa-Srinagar road. Police in a statement said, “an IED (approx 5kg) was detected by joint team of 50 RR, 183 BN CRPF, and Pulwama Police along roadside in a container at Wanpora […]
SRINAGAR — Upper reaches of Kashmir Valley received snowfall while rains started in plains on Thursday. Amid overnight cloud cover, minimum temperature rose considerably across the J&K and Ladakh, with most places in Kashmir Valley recording above-sub-zero temperature. Almost 4 inches of snowfall were reported from parts of north Kashmir as authorities closed Bandipora-Gurez road. […]
JAMMU — Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said his party would continue to press for the Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir after the winter months to provide a popular government to the people of the Union Territory. He alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is happy with its “proxy rule” […]