District Administration Pulwama uses Drone to check deforestation and timber smuggling
Pulwama, May 16 (KNS): For the first time District Administration Pulwama made use of drone to have an aerial view of the deforested area along with tracing the trails of illegal timber smuggling. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), District Administration has procured hi-tech drones to keep necessary check on illegal mining illegal felling of […]
After Bangladesh, JK govt seeks evacuation of UT residents from Oman, Dubai and Iran
CS writes to Foreign Secy JAMMU, MAY 16: After the evacuation of JK students from the neighbouring country Bangladesh amid Covid pandemic, Jammu and Kashmir Government has approached the Centre with the request to bring back the UT residents stranded in Oman, Dubai and Iran under its ‘Vande Bharat Mission’. In this regard, J&K, Chief […]
Timely seed distribution and prompt extension service sustains Agriculture activity in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, May 16: With about 70% population directly or indirectly involved with Agriculture and rural population primarily dependent on this activity, the Agriculture Production department has been taking steps to reach out to the farmers in Kashmir to ensure that this activity carries on unhindered during the lockdown and covid-19 situation. Agriculture department is trying to […]
Govt arranges 20 Special buses to evacuate 470 JK migrant labourers from Haryana
52396 JK residents return through Lakhanpur, 9243 through special trains Daily truck arrival with industrial raw material & construction material crosses 2100 mark; 61651 trucks enters since COVID-19 lockdown JAMMU, MAY 16: The government has embarked upon Haryana-Migrant Workers Evacuation Plan to evacuate 470 J&K migrant labourers from 12 districts of Haryana stranded there due […]
COVID-19: Kashmir records another death, J-K toll reaches 12
Srinagar: The death toll due to deadly Coronavirus mounted to 12 in Jammu and Kashmir today as one more positive patient died at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura, officials said. Medical superintendent SKIMS, Dr Farooq Jan told that a positive patient who hails from Chadoora area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district has died at […]
If flights resume: study estimates outbreak risk
Air travel is currently on hold to check the spread of Covid-19, but a new study of 1,364 airports worldwide has found that if flights resume, cases could spread unevenly across the globe, with many of the airports in India and China posing the highest risk for the spread. The study says India’s population density and frequent domestic […]
NIA chargesheets three slain Hizb men, 3 OGWs
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the murder of BJP state secretary Anil Parihar and his brother Ajeet Parihar by suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Kishtwar district in 2018. Kishtwar killings The Parihar brothers were shot point-blank outside their house on November 1, 2018 The Hizb militants, who murdered the […]
Over 500 foreigners linked to Tablighi Jamaat to be sent to makeshift detention centres
New Delhi: The Delhi Police are in the process of shifting 567 Tablighi Jamaat members, who had come to India from Indonesia, Malaysia, France and the US, to “makeshift detention centres” as they have completed their quarantine period, ThePrint has learnt. These foreigners, who have been booked under Section 14 of The Foreigners Act for […]
DIPR officials condole demise of A. R. Marazi
Srinagar, May 15 (KNS): The employees of Department of Information & Public Relations (DIPR) have condoled the demise of Abdul Rehman Marazi, former employee of the Department, who passed away yesterday after a brief illness. A condolence meeting of the officers and officials of the Department held here today and expressed grief over the demise […]
Government orders transfer of Rohit Kansal, M Raju
Srinagar, May 15 (KNS): J&K Union Territory Government on Friday ordered transfer of Rohit Kansal from Principal Secretary to the Government, Planning, Development and Monitoring Department, to Principal Secretary to the Government, Power Development Department. According to order issued by General Administration Department vide Order No. 564-JK(GAD) of 2020 dated 15.05.2020, it said in the […]