SRINAGAR: The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), J&K, Shaleen Kabra today said the polling timing for the 1st Phase of Municipal Polls-2018, scheduled to be held on 8 October 2018, shall be from 7.00 am to 4.00 pm.
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asserted that the government’s effort of bringing back peace in Afghanistan should not be overlooked as peace in Afghanistan was linked with peace in Pakistan. Speaking at United States Institute of Peace on Wednesday, Mr Qureshi, as quoted by Express Tribune, said that Pakistan was willing to […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik has said that Azadi for Kashmir or merger with Pakistan was not possible. Malik, in an interview with New Delhi based The Indian Express, said that the LTTE that had a committed cadre; got money and weapons from 14 nations could not take over a country, and […]
Srinagar: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Thursday alleged that the two main regional parties of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party have fielded proxy candidates in the ULB elections. National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have boycotted the upcoming municipal and local body polls. The BJP threatened that it […]
Srinagar: Class 4th aspirants who had applied for the posts in various departments in 2006 on Thursday held a protest demonstration in Baramulla. The aspirants said that they had applied in different departments in 2006 and till date the government has failed to publish the selection list of the candidates. The protesting aspirants marched through […]
New Delhi: ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, being investigated for alleged conflict of interest, has resigned as CEO and will be replaced by Sandeep Bakhshi, the lender confirmed on Thursday. Ms Kochhar, 56, had requested early retirement, the bank said. She will relinquish office from the board of directors with immediate effect, the private sector […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday claimed to have busted an OGW module of Hizbul Mujahideen northern Kashmir’s Lolab area of Kupwara district. Acting on specific input, a police statement said, Kupwara police detained two persons namely Shakir Ahmad Wani son of Mohammad Ramzan Wani and Ghulam Mustafa Sheikh son of Abdul Ahad Sheikh, […]
Srinagar: More than a dozen Bharatiya Janata Party Casndidates from Dooru area of Anantnag district have withdrawn their nomination papers for ULB elections and given up the basic party membership. Reports said that 13 BJP candidates who had filed nomination papers from Dooru area of Anantnag district withdrew their nominations. According to reports, the Dooru […]
Srinagar: The civil secretariat, the seat of Jammu and Kashmir government, will close in Srinagar by month end to reopen in winter capital Jammu on November 5 as part of the bi-annual ‘Darbar Move’, a practice started by Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872. “The offices observing five-day week shall close at Srinagar on 26th October, […]
Srinagar: Tral township of southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district is observing a complete shutdown in protest against the slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) on a local shopkeeper. Reports said that a shopkeeper Hilal Ahmad Dhobi son of Ghulam Mohudin Dhobi, a resident of Hamdania Bazar Tral was slapped with PSA on Monday and was sent […]
