Govt’s grievance system witnesses massive response from people: Advisor Khan
105 deputations, individuals meet Advisor during weekly public hearing at Church Lane SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 10: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan today maintained that the Government’s grievance redressal system is witnessing massive response from people as the present dispensation has put in place the best prompt mechanism to dispose of the grievances. The Advisor was […]
KU PG Entrance Examination-2020 Begins
SRINAGAR: The entrance examination for more than 48 PG programs offered by the University of Kashmir started here on Wednesday with the KU authorities holding the examination in two sessions i.e morning and afternoon for the convenience of thousands of the aspirants. According to the statistics available the University has received more than 25182 entrance […]
Vilification Campaign Aimed At Belittling Kashmir Media: KEG
SRINAGAR: The Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) had a detailed interaction on Wednesday. All members attended the marathon meeting which was presided over by Bashir Ahmad Bashir, Editor Srinagar Times. Discussing the special and extra-ordinary situation that prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir, the members detailed the highs and lows of the crisis that impacted the process of […]
US cuts troops in Iraq to fulfil Trump’s pledge to stop ‘endless wars’
WASHINGTON: The US announced a sharp cut on Wednesday to troop numbers in Iraq, as President Donald Trump seeks to honour his pledge to halt the country’s “endless wars” overseas, with just two months to go until the election. The move, reducing the Pentagon’s footprint in Iraq from 5,200 military personnel to just 3,000, and […]
Tokyo governor pledges to hold Olympics by all means
TOKYO: The postponed Olympics must be held next year “by all means”, Tokyo’s governor said on Wednesday, becoming the latest official to insist the event is feasible despite the coronavirus pandemic. Yuriko Koike’s remarks, at an event hosted by Kyodo news agency, come after International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates told AFP that the Games would go ahead […]
Burdened with debt, UP farmer ends life
Banda (UP): A debt-ridden farmer allegedly ended his life by consuming poisonous substance in Pindaran village here, police said on Thursday. Ram Narain (38) consumed poisonous substance on Tuesday and died during treatment at the district hospital on Wednesday, they said. The farmer’s brother Vidyasagar told police that “Ram Narain had taken a loan of […]
Arms, ammunition recovered in north Kashmir’s Uri: Army
The government forces on Thursday claimed to have recovered war-like stores from Dulanja area of Uri along Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Commanding Officer 8 Rashtriya Rifles Vivek Venkat briefing a presser at Uri brigade unit said that “the security forces had been […]
7-yr-old girl dies in accident in south Kashmir, locals protest
After a seven-year-old girl died in an accident on Thursday, the locals staged a protest against the incident in Damjan village of Qazigund in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unidentified police sources told the agency that a tractor, without a registration number, hit a seven-year-old girl near […]
2 Jaish militants arrested in north Kashmir: Police
Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested two JeM militants along with arms and ammunition in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). An unidentified police official told GNS that the police received a specific input that two JeM militants belonging to Sopore were likely to visit Kupwara […]
DOMICILE SWORD
Domicile certificate issue is hanging like a sword over the heads of common people in Jammu and Kashmir. Although the government has cleared many doubts and has come with figures that most of the certificates issued so far have been given to the people living in Jammu and Kashmir and not to the outsiders, but […]