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8 more persons discharged after completing quarantine in Srinagar

8 more persons discharged after completing quarantine in Srinagar

1930 persons discharged so far after successfully completing their quarantine SRINAGAR, APRIL 23: Eight (8) more persons who were shifted into administrative quarantine in Srinagar two weeks ago were discharged Thursday after successfully completing their quarantine period. Concerned supervising officers oversaw their discharge and transportation to their respective homes. The group like all others before […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Navin Choudhary calls for special focus on dev oriented schemes for farming community

Navin Choudhary calls for special focus on dev oriented schemes for farming community

Reviews finalization of CAPEX Budget 2020-21 for A&SH Deptt Asks for drafting guidelines to establish milk processing, fodder development plants in J&K JAMMU, APRIL 23: Principal Secretary, Animal and Sheep Husbandry, Navin Kumar Choudhary, today exhorted the officers to lay special focus on the formulation of development oriented schemes for farming community under CAPEX budget. […]

 Crescent Kashmir

TIMBER SMUGGLING

TIMBER SMUGGLING

There have been lot of media reports in the recent past from various parts of Jammu and Kashmir about the growing incidents of timber smuggling despite lockdown and restrictions. Recently district administration of Ganderbal acted when some videos went viral showing how in the forest compartment of Chettergul, green gold was been looted with help […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Karwan-e-Mohabbat reaches LOC in Uri, distributes essential items

Karwan-e-Mohabbat reaches LOC in Uri, distributes essential items

Uri, April 23 (KNS): Karwan-e-Mohabbat, a Delhi based non-governmental organization (NGO) on Wednesday reached-out to the needy living near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector to distribute essential commodities. According to KNS, the NGO visited the villages like Shadra and Chappar in Kamalkote and Sukhdar area. On Tuesday, NGO visited Mothal village on […]

 Crescent Kashmir

20 more test positive, J&K’s Covid-19 Tally jumps to 427

20 more test positive, J&K’s Covid-19 Tally jumps to 427

  Srinagar, April 23 (GNS): Twenty people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, taking the number of the covid-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir to 427. Officials sources told GNS that among them 18 were confirmed at SKIMS laboratory while one each at CD hospital and Jammu—pertaining to case from Ramban. Among the samples […]

 Crescent Kashmir

‘The Assault Is on Journalism’: An Interview With Kashmiri Journalist Gowhar Geelani

‘The Assault Is on Journalism’: An Interview With Kashmiri Journalist Gowhar Geelani

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday booked Kashmiri author and journalist Gowhar Geelani on charges of “glorifying terrorism in Kashmir Valley”. Geelani is the third journalist against whom the J&K police has filed a First Information Report (FIR) in the last week. Thirty-eight-year-old Geelani has been a contributor to different international and regional publications and has […]

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US signals growing unease with Pakistan, tightens export of nuclear byproducts

US signals growing unease with Pakistan, tightens export of nuclear byproducts

The United States has suspended the export of nuclear byproducts under a blanket general licensing system to Pakistan, whose history of nuclear proliferation has been a concern and has led to the blacklisting of many of its government agencies and private contractors. The decision announced in the government gazette called the Federal Register on Wednesday […]

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Cabinet Approves Rs 15,000-crore For India’s COVID-19 Emergency Response, Health System Package

Cabinet Approves Rs 15,000-crore For India’s COVID-19 Emergency Response, Health System Package

The Cabinet on Wednesday okayed Rs 15,000 crore for ‘India COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package’ to mount an urgent response for containing the spread of the virus in India through development of dedicated treatment facilities and setting up laboratories among others. The fund will be utilized in three phases. Rs 7,774 crore, […]

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Sonia Gandhi: A lockdown of present nature after May 3 would be even more devastating

Sonia Gandhi: A lockdown of present nature after May 3 would be even more devastating

The Congress, which had extended support to the NDA government on its decision to enforce a nationwide lockdown, said Thursday a shutdown of the present nature after May 3 would be even more devastating. Addressing a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, which met for the second time after the lockdown came into force on […]

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Dr Asgar Samoon to head Srinagar Secreteriat

Dr Asgar Samoon to head Srinagar Secreteriat

Srinagar, April 22( KNS): To make Srinagar Secreteriat functional, Government today ordered Principal Secretary Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon as overall incharge of Civil Secreteriat Srinagar in addition to his School education and Transport department . He shall also monitor developmental activities of Budgam, Anantnag and Kulgam districts. The GAD order also reads that Secretary Youth […]