Admin sanctions Rs 62 crore project for commercial cultivation, conservation of J&K’s herbal riches
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday announced a pioneering project envisaging total transformation in the landscape of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) cultivation in the Union Territory. With a budget of Rs 62 crore, the five-year project aims to cultivate MAPs on 5,000 kanal of land spread across 28 clusters, with a potential […]
India logs 99 fresh Covid cases
New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 99 coronavirus infections and no deaths, according to Union health ministry data updated on Friday. The total tally of Covid cases was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,83,122) and the death toll stands at 5,30,741, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily positivity rate has been […]
‘Govt teacher-turned-terrorist’ arrested as police cracks blast cases in Jammu region: DGP
Says law enforcement agencies look at terror acts not through the prism of religion
Jammu: A government school “teacher-turned Lashkar-e-Taiba-terrorist” was arrested for allegedly carrying out multiple blasts, including one in a bus carrying Vaishno Devi pilgrims with the intention to damage communal harmony and revive terrorism in the Jammu region, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Thursday. The arrest of Arif, a resident […]
CBI has jurisdiction to investigate offences committed within erstwhile State of J&K: HC
Says State of J&K had accorded general consent under Section 6 of the DSPE Act for exercise of jurisdiction by CBI
Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Thursday held that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is vested with jurisdiction to investigate offences committed within the territorial jurisdiction of erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir prior to abolition of its autonomy and bifurcation into two centrally-administered units. Scores of permanent residents of the former State had […]
India questions World Bank’s decision to start two separate processes to resolve Indo-Pak differences
Indus Waters Treaty
New Delhi: India on Thursday questioned the World Bank’s decision to appoint a Court of Arbitration and a neutral expert under two separate processes to resolve differences between New Delhi and Islamabad over the Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in Jammu and Kashmir. Last week, India issued a notice to Pakistan seeking a review and […]
India’s Hajj quota for 2023 fixed at 1,75,025: Govt
New Delhi: India’s Hajj quota for this year has been fixed at 1,75,025 according to the bilateral agreement with Saudi Arabia, the government said on Thursday. In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani said the ministry has had a number of interactive sessions on Hajj management with […]
Two-way traffic resumes on Jmu-Sgr nat’l highway
Minimum temp goes down in Kashmir, up in Jammu
Srinagar: The two-way traffic on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway resumed on Thursday after remaining disrupted due to multiple landslides triggered by rains at different places in Ramban district for the past three days, officials said. The traffic on the 270-km highway was suspended at 5 pm on January 31 following a massive landslide at […]
Land eviction drive: Azad seeks Home Minister’s intervention
Protests held in different parts of J&K
Jammu: Democratic Azad Party (DAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad has sought intervention of Union Home Minister Amit Shah against the ongoing land eviction drive in Jammu and Kashmir, where aggrieved people continued their protests at different places on Thursday. The National Conference and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also demanded an immediate end to the drive, […]
Anti-encroachment drive pro-people, state land being retrieved from vested interests: CS
JAMMU: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, today remarked that the encroached State land is being retrieved from the big vested interests only with the purpose of reverting it back for public use. He was speaking in a meeting of UT, Divisional, and District Administration to take stock of measures being taken to streamline the […]
KCCI asks admin to issue formal orders for transparency in eviction drive
Shops sealed in Aftab Market reopen after go ahead from authorities
Srinagar: Claiming that there is no transparency in the ongoing eviction drive, the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday urged the J&K administration to issue clear orders on its assurance that ordinary shopkeepers will not be evicted. Addressing a press conference here a day after the administration sealed many shops at Aftab Market […]
