People return without jabs as vaccination centres run dry in Kashmir
Srinagar: With almost all the Covid-19 immunization centers in Kashmir running dry for the fourth consecutive day, the second wave of the killer virus continues its ruthless march, recording high fatalities and infections. In the last 24 hours, 47 deaths were recorded in the union territory and 3832 people were detected to have been infected […]
HC quashes J&K govt’s controversial circular on re-registration of vehicles
Srinagar: The circular issued by Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Kashmir asking people to re-register their vehicles bought and brought from outside Jammu and Kashmir, “is unnecessary and lacks authority”, the J&K High Court said Thursday as it quashed the said circular concluding that the life-time road tax paid at the time of purchase cannot be […]
J&K HC directs SSRB to accord requisite weightage to candidates for higher qualifications
Srinagar: The J&K High Court Tuesday upheld its single bench order, directing the Services Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) to consider additional points for higher qualification of candidates who had inadvertently omitted to fill them in their online applications for the post of teachers advertised in 2017. The division of justices Ali Mohammad Magrey and Vinod […]
HC directs Secy Transport, RTO to explain what necessitated issuance of such circular
Hearing petition on controversial circular on re-registration of non-J&K registered vehicles…
Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Thursday directed the Secretary Transport to remain present before the court in connection with the circular that directs residents of J&K to re-register their vehicles bought and brought from outside the union territory. Hearing a petition on the controversial circular calling for re-registration of vehicles with non-J&K registrations within […]
HC seeks personal presence of RTO Kashmir over controversial circular on re-registration of vehicles registered outside of J&K
Srinagar: Hearing the petition on his controversial circular asking for re-registration of vehicles with non-J&K registration within 15 days here, J&K High Court Monday directed the Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Kashmir to present himself before the court on Wednesday (Apr 21). The owners of the vehicles bought and brought here from outside of J&K, according […]
Experts flay unscientific sand mining from River Jhelum as ecological disaster in making
‘This unnatural, mechanized extraction is propelled by material greed without any concern for river’s ecology, Kashmir environment’
Srinagar: Unscientific, illegal and uncontrolled sand extraction in river Jhelum by firms and individuals is precipitating an ecological disaster which shall be greater in magnitude than the flood that devastated Kashmir in September 2014, say experts. “This entire process of extraction of micro minerals in Jhelum, mostly by firms from Rajasthan, Haryana, Kolkatta and other […]
As COVID-19 cases continue to spike, experts bemoan vaccine hesitancy in Kashmir
Srinagar: As younger people are alarmingly falling prey to new Covid-19 wave in Kashmir, only 1.67 percent of the population here has been covered so far under the official anti-Covid vaccination programme. The vaccination programme was launched across India, the world’s largest, on 16th of January 2021, with medicos and healthcare workers in Kashmir getting […]
HC disposes off Mehbooba Mufti’s appeal against order that dismissed her petition for issuance of passport
Asks concerned to decide her plea on merits, under rules and provisions of Act; un-influenced by observations made in court judgment
Srinagar: A division bench of the J&K High Court Friday disposed off an appeal by former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti against a single judge order that dismissed her writ petition seeking directions to concerned authorities to issue passport to her. Mufti through her lawyer had shown willingness to approach the appropriate authorities to avail the […]
RTO’s circular on seizure of vehicles purchased from outside of J&K challenged in court
HC asks J&K administration to respond by April 15
Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Thursday issued a notice to J&K administration on a recent circular by Regional Transport Officer (RTO), Kashmir that has led to a spree of seizure by police of vehicles purchased by the residents here from outside of J&K. In order to arrest the spree of seizures by police “the […]
LAWDA alone should be allowed to work for solving problems facing Dal: HC
Disbands all committees and amicus curies, except one, constituted and appointed for advising on the issues confronting the terminally sick Lake
Srinagar: The J&K High Court today ordered disbanding all the committees and amicus curies, except one, constituted and appointed for advising on the issues confronting the terminally sick Dal Lake of Kashmir. Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul hearing a 2002 public interest petition on the grave ecological disturbances facing the famed […]
