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Mughal Road Closed Till Further Orders

Mughal Road Closed Till Further Orders

Amid prevailing inclement weather conditions, authorities on Sunday afternoon directed for closure of Mughal road for all sorts of vehicular traffic. DTI Mughal road, Qasim Ahmed told GNS the road has been closed in view of slippery road conditions in the aftermath of heavy snow over the terrain. “It has been decided to close the […]

 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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Weather advisory; Gurez-Bandipra road closed till further orders

Weather advisory; Gurez-Bandipra road closed till further orders

Bandipora: The administration in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday closed Bandipora-Gurez and Dawar-Tulail roads till further orders in wake of the fresh weather advisory. An order issued here by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Gurez, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), reads,  “In view of the weather advisory issued by […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Three years on; 25 per cent work still pending at GMC

Three years on; 25 per cent work still pending at GMC

Despite passing of nearly three years, the Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) has completed only 75 percent of work of Government Medical College (GMC) Baramulla. The corporation is likely to miss the deadline for the completion of the project. According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), till November-2021, JKPCC was yet to […]