โPost August 5, 2019, the governmentโs steps have been aimed at intimidation of employees.โ SRINAGAR โ In an unusual move, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has asked the Directorate of School Education to identify the โdeadwoodโ staff in the department and retire them early. The move has raised anxieties among the employees of the department.…
Mountain Ink reached out to BR Sharma, chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission, for a comment but he refused. SRINAGAR โ Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission selection list for the post of Assistant Professor in Biotechnology in the higher education department reeks of fraud as three candidates, who had scored less points…
Netizens said that forcing people to take off Pheran in the bone-chilling cold is unacceptable. BANDIPORA โ The arbitrary removal of Pheran of people visiting the Deputy Commissionerโs office in Bandipora has led to an outrage in Kashmir. On Tuesday, a video went viral on social media depicting people taking off their Pheran in a…
Mountain Ink spoke to several residents who have managed to get a fake vaccination certificate. Many among them are students, teachers, and businessmen. SRINAGAR โ Sehrish was tense. She was unvaccinated when the government announced the reopening of colleges but made vaccination a precondition for students to attend the classes physically. A 21-year-old college student,…
Since Friday midnight 20,000 PDD employees are on an indefinite strike to protest the governmentโs move to merge J&KPDD into the Power Grid Corporation of India and privatisation of assets. SRINAGAR โ Several areas in Kashmir are facing electricity outages as the government has failed to negotiate with the Power Development Department (PDD) employees who…
Vendors demand space near the main market that is accessible to people. SOPORE โ Theย street vendors in north Kashmirโs Sopore township are suffering for the past four years as the administration neither allows them to operate their stalls by roadsides nor provides them with an alternate space. In 2018, the vendors were granted permission for…
“The traders say that they met the then DC Baramulla who assured them that he will look into the matter.” SOPORE โ As the Baramulla district administration plans to implement the โSopore master planโ, many business establishments and shopkeepers have expressed their resentment saying that the implementation of the โplanโ will render them jobless. Although…
โEarlier in Hydepora, five kids were orphaned. I just want to ask, who will look after these kids now? Iโm afraid that the next generation will be a generation of orphans.โ SOPORE โ At around 4pm on 10 December 2021, Mohammad Sultan, 43, video-called his wife, Naza, and insisted for a long chat.ย Given his…
Police say they used all means to trace Naikoo, but failed. SOPORE โ In 2018, Ghulam Nabi Naikoo, a fruit trader from Sopore, in north Kashmir, sold apples to a Kolkata based firm IGT- Iqbal Gulzar Tiwari. The representative of the firm paid some amount in cash and promised to pay the rest once the…