BJP district president Bandipora booked for abusing BDO
Bandipora, Sep 30: Police on Sunday registered a case against a BJP leader in Bandipora after block development officer (BDO) filed a complaint against him for allegedly using abusive language in his office yesterday. District president BJP Sheikh Waseem Bari has been booked under a Case FIR. No 136/2018 under section 353 RPC in Police […]
DGP visits Police Training School Manigam; inaugurates Basket Ball Court, Amphi Theater
Srinagar, September 30: Director General of Police JandK Dilbag Singh, IPS visited Police Training School, Manigam on Sunday where he inaugurated a newly constructed Basket Ball Court and Amphi Theater. He also addressed a trainees’ darbar. The Director General of Police was received by the Principal of the Training School Haseeb-Ur-Rehman, SSP. On his arrival […]
Police held PCPG meeting at Rainawari
Srinagar: A PCPG (Police Community Partnership Group) meeting was held at Mohalla Mumkhan Badamwari by SDPO Khanyar Raja Zuhaib accompanied by SHO Police Station Rainawari Aijaz Ahmad . The meeting was attended by a large number of people of the adjacent areas. A police spokesman said that the participants highlighted various issues of public importance […]
Pak’s ISI chief Lt Gen Mukhtar to retire on Monday
Islamabad, Sep 30 : Chief of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ISI, Lt General Naveed Mukhtar, and four other three-star generals will retire on Monday, according to a media report. Besides director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Mukhtar, the others retiring on Monday are Peshawar Corps Commander Lt General Nazir Ahmad Butt, Commander of Army’s […]
Samoon inaugurates free anti-rabies vaccination camp for pets
Lays foundation of Modern OPD Block of central Vet Hospital, inaugurates Sheep Clinic at Nowshera
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 30: Principal Secretary Animal, Sheep Husbandry, Fisheries and Transport, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon today visited the Animal Husbandry Complex Gowkadal and inaugurated a free anti-rabies vaccination camp for pets. On the occasion, the Principal Secretary also interacted with pet owners and himself vaccinated some pedigreed pets. Director, Animal Husbandry Kashmir, Dr M Y […]
Pak bureaucrat caught stealing Kuwaiti delegate’s wallet suspended
Islamabad, Sep 30: Zarrar Haider Khan, joint secretary of the Ministry of Industries and Production and a BS-20 officer of the state bureaucracy’s elite Pakistan Administrative Service cadre, has been suspended from service for stealing. The disgraced officer had caused embarrassment to the country after being caught on closed-circuit TV (CCTV) camera stealing a foreign […]
The poor are left to themselves
The benefits being projected in Aadhaar’s name are not backed by the data
By: Reetika Khera The first death anniversary of Santoshi Kumar, a Dalit girl from Simdega, Jharkhand, was this week. She died of hunger, at the age of 11, a few weeks after her family’s ration card was cancelled by the State government because they failed to link it to Aadhaar. The Aadhaar judgment of September […]
Syria calls on US, French, Turkish forces to withdraw immediately
United Nations, Sept 29 : Syria’s foreign minister on Saturday denounced US, French and Turkish forces operating in his country as “occupying forces” and demanded that they leave immediately. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem also called on Syrian refugees to come home, even though the country’s war is now in its […]
No peace prospects
By: Najam Sethi Prime Minister Imran Khan’s offer last week of peace talks with India on all issues, including Kashmir and terrorism, came as a bolt from the blue. Pakistan has long argued for a discussion of the core issue of Kashmir while rejecting India’s bid to insert the core issue of terrorism into the […]
Rs 89.50 lakh loan disbursed by SC, ST&BC Dev Corp to 33 beneficiaries
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 30: The Jammu & Kashmir Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes Development Corporation today sanctioned and disbursed loans to the tune of Rs 89.50 lakh in favour 33 beneficiaries of Disabled category in collaboration with National Handicapped Finance & Development Corporation (NHFDC) for establishment of income generating units by these beneficiaries. Speaking […]
