Category: GOVERNANCE


  • “The terminated employees include Police constables Tawseef Ahmed Mir and Shahid Hussain Rather from Pulwama and Baramulla, computer operator Ghulam Hassan Parray from Srinagar, Arshid Ahmad Das, a teacher from Awantipora, and Nursing Orderly, Health Dept Sharafat A Khan from Kupwara.” SRINAGAR โ€” Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday terminated five Government employees for allegedly having…

  • โ€œIt is, accordingly, enjoined upon all Administrative Secretaries to direct HoDs working under their administrative control to immediately switch over to e-office mode of working.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” Jammu and Kashmir govt today asked all Administrative Secretaries to direct Heads of the Departments (HoDs) working under control to immediately switch over to e-office mode of working,…

  • The administration is considering reopening the historic Jamia Masjid in the next week. SRINAGAR โ€”ย The Jammu and Kashmir administration is mulling to reopen the historic Jamia Masjid in Old City area of Nowhatta for prayers after 30 weeks. The Masjid remained closed for the mandatory congregational prayers for 30 straight weeks. The congregational Friday prayers…

  • 148 Kanals of land were transferred in favour of the Prisons Department for the construction of a High-Security Prison in the district Kathua. JAMMU โ€” The Administrative Council (AC) which met here under the chairmanship of the New Delhi appointed Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, today approved the proposal of Revenue Department to transfer various parcels…

  • The policy also provides for identifying parcels of land in various industrial estates to be given exclusively to industries with foreign investments including vertical rise premises in the form of multi-purpose buildings/complexes, with plug and play facilities. JAMMU โ€” The Administrative Council (AC) which met here under the chairmanship of the New Delhi appointed Lieutenant…

  • “Three serving revenue officials, five retired revenue officials and eight private persons, who had been allegedly involved in murky land deals, forgery and destruction of revenue records, land grabbing and encroachments over state land were raided by the joint teams.” JAMMU โ€” Authorities on Sunday arrested a few retired revenue officials and property dealers and…

  • “The staff members including the headmaster of High School Wantrag have been placed under suspension in the first instance.” SRINAGAR โ€” Chief Education Officer Anantnag on Friday suspended staff members including the headmaster of High School Wantrag of Mattan zone after the school showed poor performance in class 10 examination, result of which was declared…

  • โ€œJDA did not spare even a 90-year-old Chacha in Jammu and rendered him homeless. This is the development of Gujjars and Bakerwals that BJP is claiming.โ€ย  SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu Development Authority has come under severe criticism for demolishing the homes of several Gujjar and Bakarwal families in the Roopnagar area of the Jammu district.…

  • Earlier the Ladakh administration distributed tablets among the students and those tablets included every other subject but Urdu. SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir administrationโ€™s decision to substitute โ€˜graduation with knowledge of Urduโ€™ with โ€˜graduation from a recognised universityโ€™ as the basic eligibility criteria for the posts of Naib Tehsildar and Patwari in the Revenue…

  • โ€œIn 2018 state government informed the state legislative assembly that more than 21,400 hectares (428000 Kanals) of land was under the unauthorised occupation of the army and other government forces in J&K.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” Governmentโ€™s order of designating over 1300 Kanals of land at two famous tourist resorts of Kashmirโ€”Gulmarg and Sonmargโ€”as โ€˜Strategic Areasโ€™ has…