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 Crescent Kashmir

DSEK stressed teachers to desist from private coaching practice

DSEK stressed teachers to desist from private coaching practice

Best quality study material will be provided to the students from this session: Director Education SRINAGAR,  FEBRUARY 27: Making teaching learning process more effective and ensure punctuality of teachers in schools, Director School Education Kashmir, Mohammad Younis Malik impressed upon the teaching community to desist from the practices of private tutioning and asked them to […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Administrative Secretaries to hold Public Grievance Camp in Srinagar on Feb 28

Administrative Secretaries to hold Public Grievance Camp in Srinagar on Feb 28

SRINAGAR, FEBRUARY 27: Principal Secretary, Home Department, Shaleen Kabra, Commissioner Secretary, Labour and Employment Development, Saurabh Bhagat and Secretary General Administration Department, Dr Farooq Ahmad Lone, would convene a day-long Public Grievance Camp at Banquet Hall, Srinagar on February 28-2020 from 10 AM to 4 PM. People can register their grievance and developmental issues during […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Joint Director paid surprise visit to super -50, schools of Ganderbal district

SRINAGAR, FEBRUARY 27: Joint Director of School Education Kashmir, Suraya Bano today paid a surprise visit to various schools of district Ganderbal. She was accompanied by Field Advisor Sanjay Kumar and Chief Education Officer Ganderbal, Nahida Nelofar and other officers of the department. The team visited Government Boys Higher Secondary School Ganderbal were Super-50 centre […]

 Crescent Kashmir

ACD G’bal conducts surprise visit of Kangan block

ACD G’bal conducts surprise visit of Kangan block

GANDERBAL, FEBRUARY 27: The Assistant Commissioner Development (ADC) Ganderbal, Bilal Mukhtar Dar conducted a surprise visit of Block Kangan, here today. The ADC inspected various under execution projects in the block and asked the concerned to expedite the pace of work of these projects with in the given time frame. Later, the ACR convened a […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Measures underway to improve higher education scenario: Talat Parvez

Measures underway to improve higher education scenario: Talat Parvez

Convenes meeting to finalize modalities for procuring digital classroom equipment SRINAGAR, FEBRUARY 27: Secretary, Higher Education Department (HED), Talat Parvez, today said that government is taking various steps to comprehensively improve higher education scenario across Jammu and Kashmir. The Secretary made these remarks during a meeting he chaired to finalize modalities for procuring equipment for […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Court should be the first, not last, resort for seeking justice: CJ Mittal

Court should be the first, not last, resort for seeking justice: CJ Mittal

SRINAGAR, FEBRUARY 27: Chief Justice, J&K High Court, Justice Gita Mittal today said that for seeking justice, courts should be first, not last resort. While interacting with the district judicial officers, she said that people are fearful of coming to the courts since they are ignorant of the formalities but the legal aid mechanism should […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Sand and pebbles

Sand and pebbles

There are no visible signs of the government in the rural areas of Kashmir especially after the clampdown started by the authorities post abrogation of article 370 on August 5, 2019. It has resulted huge damage to the environment and to the delicate balance which was being maintained in the snow fed streams in entire […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Cong leaders meet Prez, demand Amit Shah’s resignation over Delhi violence

Cong leaders meet Prez, demand Amit Shah’s resignation over Delhi violence

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former PM Manmohan Singh petitioned President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, urging him to ask the Government to preserve ‘Raj dharma’ in the wake of Delhi violence. Speaking to reporters after leading a delegation of top party leaders to Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sonia Gandhi called upon the President to secure the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Kashmir’s Business Community Sends Out SOS on ‘Sea of Debt and Destruction’

Kashmir’s Business Community Sends Out SOS on ‘Sea of Debt and Destruction’

Srinagar: Kashmir’s business community including traders, hoteliers, silk producers, artisans, fruit associations and other trade and commerce bodies have sent out an SOS in a full-page ad published on Wednesday in several local dailies. The SOS message emphasises that the “ill-fated trade, tourism, horticulture, agriculture, handicrafts, commerce and industrial community of Kashmiris is in the middle […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Saudi Arabia halts travel to Islam’s holiest site over coronavirus outbreak

Saudi Arabia halts travel to Islam’s holiest site over coronavirus outbreak

Saudi Arabia on Thursday halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a viral epidemic just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move that came as the Mideast has over 220 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. The extraordinary decision by Saudi Arabia stops foreigners from reaching the holy city […]