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 Crescent Kashmir

Chief Justice launches annual week long plantation drive by J&K SLSA

Chief Justice launches annual week long plantation drive by J&K SLSA

  SRINAGAR, AUGUST 8: Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Patron-in-Chief J&K State Legal Services Authority (JK SLSA) today launched a plantation drive as part of annual weeklong plantation drive being organized every year by SLSA. The plantation drive has been launched in coordination with Forest Department with an aim to usher […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Class IV posts: JKSSB’s Portal records 4,58,030 registrations;  2,38,350 candidates submit online application so far

Class IV posts: JKSSB’s Portal records 4,58,030 registrations;  2,38,350 candidates submit online application so far

JAMMU, AUGUST 8: Till today morning 4,58,030 Registrations have been done by the candidates on JKSSB’s Online Portal, since the commencement of online application submission from 10th July, 2020 and  2,38,350 candidates completed their online application submission process for Class IV posts. Also 64,550 applications have been submitted online for the post of Accounts Assistant. […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Advisor Baseer Khan visits Sopore, meets public delegations

Advisor Baseer Khan visits Sopore, meets public delegations

Affirms govt’s priority towards timely disposal of public grievances SOPORE, AUGUST 08: As part of public outreach programme initiated by the Jammu and Kashmir administration, Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today visited Sopore and met various delegations and individuals who apprised him of their grievances and demands pertaining to development of their respective […]

 Crescent Kashmir

463 new covid-19 cases take tally J&K’s tally to 24390, Srinagar total reaches 6000

463 new covid-19 cases take tally J&K’s tally to 24390, Srinagar total reaches 6000

46 travelers were among 463 new covid-19 infections in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the overall tally to 24390, officials said on Saturday. Among them, 81 were reported from Jammu Division and 382 from Kashmir Valley. Giving district wise breakup of the cases, sources told GNS Srinagar reported 178, Baramulla 20, Pulwama 38, Kulgam 1, Shopian […]

 Crescent Kashmir

DSP case: NIA raids in J&K to look for Hizbul links

DSP case: NIA raids in J&K to look for Hizbul links

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out searches at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir, including premises of carpet businessman Sahil Jaroo, to look for financial links with Pakistan-based terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen vis-a-vis the DSP Davinder Singh case. “Searches are going on at multiple locations in Srinagar and other places in J&K in […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Keep them in jail who don’t stop talking of violence: Ashok Koul

Keep them in jail who don’t stop talking of violence: Ashok Koul

BJP General Secretary (Organization) Ashok Koul on Saturday said if leaders in detention do not stop talking about violence even after their release then it is better to keep them in jail. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Koul said BJP feels that all political leaders taken into preventive custody after August 5, 2019 should […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Body of youth recovered from stream in south Kashmir’s Pulwama

Body of youth recovered from stream in south Kashmir’s Pulwama

Srinagar: Body of a youth was found in Romshi Nallah at Chewakalan village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday, officials said. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that locals spotted a body in Nallah Romshi at Chewakalan  village and accordingly contacted concerned police station. He said police team reached the spot and […]

 Crescent Kashmir

21-yr-old dies by suicide in south Kashmir

21-yr-old dies by suicide in south Kashmir

A 21-year old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Utrasoo area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). This is the sixth case of suicide in the past eight days in Kashmir. An unnamed official told the agency that the man, whose name has […]

 Crescent Kashmir

COVID-19 lockdown: DSEK warns private schools against terminating staff, withholding salaries

COVID-19 lockdown: DSEK warns private schools against terminating staff, withholding salaries

Srinagar: Authorities on Saturday warned all unaided private schools of “strict action” including de-recognition in case they terminate or withheld salaries of staff during the ongoing lookdown over covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir Valley. “It is impressed upon all the unaided recognised Private Schools of Kashmir Division to adhere with the instructions of providing un-interrupted salaries […]

 Crescent Kashmir

 KARGIL CALLING

 KARGIL CALLING

On the first anniversary of being a separate Union Territory directly under the central command, people of Kargil want to be the part of Kashmir rather than to be the part of new UT. Kargil Congress and National Conference leaders have not only demanded that the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir but they want to […]