Gas Cylinder Blast at Kupwara Jail: Injured Inmate Succumbs
SRINAGAR: An inmate from Sopore dies after he was injured in Kupwara jail gas cylinder blast A senior official said that a gas cylinder explosion at Kupwara sub jail on June 19 left nine inmates injured. All were promptly hospitalized, but one inmate, identified as Shahnawaz Ahmad Shah, succumbed to his injuries Monday morning. Shah, […]
Review of projects
Every district of Jammu and Kashmir there is a periodic review being made on ground under CAPEX Budget 2023-24 Recently Deputy Commissioner Samba, chaired a review meeting to assess the physical and financial status of projects taken under the District Capex Plan 2023-24. The meeting was held in meeting Hall of the DC Office, included […]
Amid NEET-UG, UGC-NET row, anti-paper leak law comes into force
Amid massive controversy over alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG and UGC-NET examinations, the Centre on Friday notified the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024. The law aims to prevent the use of ‘unfair means’ in job examinations and common entrance tests like NEET-UG and UGC-NET. Passed by Parliament in February 2024, the anti-paper […]
Shai Hope’s 82 fires West Indies to big T20 World Cup win over US
Shai Hope hit a six-studded 82 not out from 39 deliveries as West Indies revived their Super Eight campaign with a thumping nine-wicket win over co-hosts the United States at the Twenty20 World Cup on Friday. Needing a win and a big bump in their net run rate after a loss to England in their […]
Israeli forces step up strikes across Gaza
CAIRO: Israeli forces pounded Rafah and other areas across the Gaza Strip and engaged in close-quarter combat with fighters led by Hamas on Friday. Residents said the Israelis appeared to by trying to complete their capture of Rafah, the city on the enclave’s southern edge that has been the focus of an Israeli assault since […]
Transport Nagar
Recently Divisional Commissioner Jammu who is also Additional Chief Executive Officer JMRDA, on Tuesday conducted on spot inspection of the improvement/upgradation works in the Transport Nagar. He inspected the works being executed for the development of Yards, roads and creation of other amenities. It was informed that maximum works have been completed in Yards, while […]
One Dead, Two Injured After Bike Plunges into Irrigation Canal in Lar Ganderbal
Ganderbal: A 25-year-old youth was killed and two others were injured after the motorbike they were riding skidded on the road and fell into an irrigation canal in the Watlar area of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal District late Thursday evening. Officials said the incident occurred near the maternity hospital in Watlar, Ganderbal, when a Pulsar bike […]
Sports camps
Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council is going to open a professional gymnastics academy center at Gindun Rajbagh Srinagar, following the pattern of the gymnastics academy center in Jammu, with the objective of promoting gymnastics as a major sport in the Kashmir region. Talent scouting and camps will be organised to impart gymnastics coaching in the […]
Fighting rages in Gaza’s Rafah; tensions with Lebanon soar
GAZA STRIP: Israeli air strikes and clashes between troops and Palestinian militants rocked Gaza on Wednesday, after Israel’s army warned it had readied an offensive against Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement on the country’s northern front. Witnesses and the civil defence agency in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip reported Israeli bombardment in western Rafah, where medics said drone […]
Education Ministry orders cancellations of UGC-NET
NEW DELHI: The Education Ministry on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of UGC-NET conducted by the National Testing Agency following inputs that the integrity of the examination may have been compromised and the matter has been handed over to the CBI for a thorough investigation, officials said. The decision by the Ministry comes amid a massive […]