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Kansal chairs committee meet for promotion of PDD officers

Kansal chairs committee meet for promotion of PDD officers

Recommends 66 cases to Establishment-cum-Selection Committee SRINAGAR, AUGUST 31- Principal Secretary Power Development Department, Rohit Kansal  chaired a meeting of the committee constituted for recommending promotion of officers of PDD at Civil Secretariat here today. The meeting was attended by Managing Director, Jammu and Kashmir Power Transmission Corporation Limited (JKPTCL), Director Finance, PDD, Special Secretary, […]

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Advisor Sharma chairs meeting on revival of Business sector in J&K

Advisor Sharma chairs meeting on revival of Business sector in J&K

SRINAGAR AUGUST 31:- The 4th meeting of the Committee constituted for exploring the ways and means for revival of the business sector in Jammu and Kashmir was held today under the Chairmanship of Advisor to Lt Governor, KK Sharma. Members of the Committee including Financial Commissioner, Finance, Dr Arun Mehta, Commissioner/ Secretary Tourism, Zubair Ahmad, […]

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67 travelers among 535 new covid-19 cases in J&K, total 37698

67 travelers among 535 new covid-19 cases in J&K, total 37698

Jammu and Kashmir reported 535 new covid-19 cases including 67 travelers in last 24 hours, taking the overall tally to 37698. Among the cases, official sources told GNS that 290 were reported from Kashmir and 245 from Jammu division. Giving district-wise details of the cases, they said, Srinagar reported 90, Baramulla 16, Pulwama 52, Budgam […]

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Former President Pranab Mukherjee Dies At 84

Former President Pranab Mukherjee Dies At 84

Former President Pranab Mukherjee passed away on Monday, his son Abhijit Mukherjee tweeted. He was 84. His son, Abhijit Mukherjee wrote on social media, Mukherjee was admitted to the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital on August 10 and was operated for removal of a clot in the brain. He was also tested positive for COVID- […]

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Militants attack police post in north Kashmir’s Sopore

Militants attack police post in north Kashmir’s Sopore

Suspected militants attacked a police post at Bus stand Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday. However, there was no report of any casualty. Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), suspected militants attacked the police post in Sopore with rifle grenades and some bullets were also fired at the police post. “There […]

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Govt forces recover arms, ammunition in north Kashmir village

Govt forces recover arms, ammunition in north Kashmir village

The police and army recovered a cache of arms and ammunition in Dudran forest area of Boniyar Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said on Monday, reported a local news agency, Global news Service (GNS). A police officer told GNS that two AK-47 rifles along with as many magazines, 74 AK rounds, a pistol […]

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Woman injured in road accident in north Kashmir

Woman injured in road accident in north Kashmir

A middle-aged woman was injured after a vehicle she was travelling in met an accident at Chowkibal area of the district Kupwara, north Kashmir, this afternoon. A local news agency, Global News Service (GNS), reported that the incident involving a Maruti Suzuki Alto driven by Fayaz Ahmad Shiekh resident of Zonareshi, occured near a local […]

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Ultra-nationalists call us separatists; treated as nationalists in J-K: Omar Abdullah

Ultra-nationalists call us separatists; treated as nationalists in J-K: Omar Abdullah

A year after a constitutional change nullified its seven-decade-old special status and bifurcated it into two Union Territories, the political environment in Jammu & Kashmir is in flux – again. At the heart of the churning, spurred mostly by the release of frontline mainstream political leaders from months of preventive detention, are Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar […]

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Drug peddler arrested in Awantipora: Police

Drug peddler arrested in Awantipora: Police

Awantipora Police on Monday said to have arrested a drug peddler from Ladermud Crossing of Awantipora area in south Kashmir and have recovered 250 grams of contraband substance from his postseason. Police have identified him as Aqeel Ahmad Ansari resident of Barkhan,Nawab Gung Bareli UP and upon preliminary questioning he seems to be involved in […]

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BJP wants J&K a “Hindu dominated” region: Dr Farooq Abdullah

BJP wants J&K a “Hindu dominated” region: Dr Farooq Abdullah

National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Monday stated that the party pulled out itself from Delimitation Commission as ruling dispensation in New Delhi BJP was trying to create Hindu hegemony in J&K, a Muslim majority region, to divide the UT on religious lines. “We told them on their face that we do not believe […]