Crescent Kashmir

Srinagar city

Srinagar city

Srinagar city has a lot of heritage importance and has been on the global tourism map. Recently a major achievement was highlighted as the city got enlisted in the UNESCO world creative cities network. Srinagar became one of the 49 cities worldwide to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) under the Craft & Folk […]

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Rains Lash Plains, Snowfall In Upper Reaches Of J&K, Ladakh

Rains Lash Plains, Snowfall In Upper Reaches Of J&K, Ladakh

Srinagar: Rains lashed plains while upper reaches in Jammu & Kashmir Valley and Ladakh experienced snowfall on Sunday, officials said. With overnight cloud cover, most places other than Gulmarg recorded above sub-zero temperature during the night for the first time in many days. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar had 2.1mm of […]

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Horticulture Department organizes Awareness/ Training programme at Kulgam

Horticulture Department organizes Awareness/ Training programme at Kulgam

KULGAM, DECEMBER 04: The Department of Horticulture today organised an awareness cum training camp to aware the farmers about different Departmental Schemes in vogue particularly the newly launched Modified High Density scheme at Rest House Chawalgam, here.  The Director General (DG) Horticulture Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat was the Chief Guest on the occasion, while DDC Chairperson, Kulgam, Mohd Afzal […]

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Principal Secretary visits SCERT divisional office Jammu; reviews functioning

Principal Secretary visits SCERT divisional office Jammu; reviews functioning

JAMMU, DECEMBER 4: Principal Secretary, School Education, B K Singh, today visited State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) divisional office, Jammu, to take stock of functioning of the institute. State Project Director Samagra Shiksha, Deep Raj, Joint Director Planning School Education Department, Madan Gopal Sharma and other officers of School Education Department accompanied […]

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Petrol And Diesel Prices: Delhi Continues At Rs 95.41/lt

Petrol And Diesel Prices: Delhi Continues At Rs 95.41/lt

Ever since the Centre announced a major slash in VAT on fuel rates in India, petrol and diesel prices have remained constant for more than a month now. The decision of the central government has brought down the rates from all-time highs providing major relief to the people. Similarly, petrol prices along with diesel prices remained […]

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Police seize FCI rice bags while checking in Pulwama

Police seize FCI rice bags while checking in Pulwama

By: Muzamil Bhat CK Srinagar Police have created a lot of drop gates and checking points in Pulwama district and while checking a load carrier which was apparently filled with grass they found a lot of rice bags illegally smuggled out from FCI department. According to the police they seized 45 bags of rice belonging […]

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PCB announces schedule for PSL 2022, player draft to be held on Dec 12

PCB announces schedule for PSL 2022, player draft to be held on Dec 12

The first match of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2022 will be held in Karachi on January 27 and Lahore will host the tournament’s final on February 27, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Friday as it released the schedule for the seventh edition of its premier cricket league. “Following an opening ceremony, […]

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Recruitment process

Recruitment process

In the past several decades’ people of Jammu and Kashmir were promised employment packages by the successive governments but nothing would go beyond it. In the recent past J&K administration gave one time age relaxation in the recruitment exam for the post of Sub- Inspector, JKP and the increase in the number of seats has […]

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Omicron’s Severity Anticipated To Be Low: Health Ministry

Omicron’s Severity Anticipated To Be Low: Health Ministry

 A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on November 3 says that “given the fast pace of vaccination in India and high exposure to delta variant as evidenced by high seropositivity, the severity of the disease is anticipated to be low. However, scientific evidence is […]

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Active LeT militant arrested in Budgam

Active LeT militant arrested in Budgam

Srinagar: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested an Active militant of Lashkar-i-Toiba outfit in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. A senior police officer said that a joint team of Police and army’s 02 RR, 62RR apprehended a Active militant at Pushkar. He identified the arrested militant as Hamid Nath resident of Peth Zanigam who was […]