SRINAGAR: Secretary Social Welfare, Dr Farooq Ahmad Lone today reviewed the progress on implementation of the State Marriage Assistance Scheme (SMAS). Under this welfare initiative state government provides financial assistance of Rs 25000 and cost of 5 gm Gold to those marriageable girls whose families are facing dire financial constraints. The meeting was informed that the […]
SRINAGAR: The Government has ordered constitution of District-level official panels for rationalization of the Anganwadi Centres across the State. According to an order issued by Secretary to the Government, Social Welfare Department, each district-level committee will be headed by the District Programme Officer ICDS of the concerned district. The Members of the Committee include concerned […]
Srinagar:Three more militants have been killed in an encounter at Sumlar forests of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, taking the death toll of militants to five. Police Spokesperson said that three more militants have been killed in the operation. He said that all the bodies of the slain has been recovered along with as many weapons. […]
Srinagar: An injured snake, which was found in a Mumbai suburb, underwent an MRI scan for its broken spine and is on recovery path after being put through treatment. The snake, a bamboo pit viper, was found beaten with sticks in Dahisar. The venomous serpent was spotted by a local hawaldar, who handed it over […]
Srinagar: In a big development, the meet scheduled to take place between India and Pakistan in New York on the sidelines of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly has been cancelled, according to reports on Friday. The decision comes from the Indian side after three policemen were killed in southern Kashmir’s Shopian town on Friday […]
Srinagar: The Home Ministry of India on Friday said no policeman has resigned in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the killing of three police personnel by militant group Hizbul Mujahideen. Reports have appeared in a section of media that some special police officers (SPOs) in Jammu and Kashmir have resigned, but the state […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission on Friday issued a notice to the deputy commisoner Baramulla and Superintendent of Police Sopore asking them to file a compliance report into the killing of Hurriyat (G) activist Hakeem-ur-Rahman Sultani who was killed on September 9 by “unidentified gunmen”. The SHRC notice comes in response to […]
Kolkata: After Imran Khan took the charge as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, here in Kolkata the Consulate General of People’s Republic of China Ma Zhanwu expressed his concern saying, “I hope Indo-Pak bilateral relationship will turn better through dialogue and they will settle all their conflicts.” Zhanwu, in a sideline of a chat also […]
Srinagar: Describing the killing of three policemen in Shopian on Friday as ‘unfortunate and tragic’, Communist lawmaker M Y Tarigami said the slain policemen were unarmed. In a statement, Targami said the abduction and subsequent killing of three policemen in Batagund and Kapren villages of Shopian is ‘unfortunate and tragic’. The slain policemen were not […]
DAR ES SALAAM: Dozens more bodies were recovered on Friday, the morning after a Tanzanian ferry disaster, nearly doubling the death toll to 86, with hundreds more feared missing as rescuers resumed searching for survivors at first light. The higher death toll was given to the Citizen newspaper by John Mongella, regional commissioner for the […]
