Month: August 2021

Irshad Hussain Scores of residents of Mir Behri Dal, Srinagar hit the streets and blocked the Kashmir University road, demanding the long pending 3 kilometer road macadamization and renovation of broken bridges in the area. Prominent social activist, Mohd Abass Kashmiri, told The Kashmiriyat that due to dilapidated conditions of bridges and roads, "we carry patients in boats, which is troublesome." The residents alleged that even during the month of Muharram, nothing was done about these broken bridges and roads which caused massive problems to the mourners. Adding that, Srinagar mayor Junaid Matoo was the counselor of the area and that he had promised many a times that he would solve these problems, the residents said that nothing of this sort was done and the situation remain...

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today laid the foundation stone for the 700- bedded Mega Boys Hostel of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar through virtual mode. The project will enhance the sustainable campus infrastructure of one of the premier Technical Institutes in Northern India. Sh. Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Education shared his views on the occasion through a video message. Speaking on the occasion, the Lt Governor pointed out fast-changing market dynamics and new innovations taking place globally and the efforts being taken by the UT Government to amplify exponential technologies ecosystem to meet the modern-day requirements. “With our technical education infrastructure, rigorous career programs for high-demand technology in the post-Covid worl...

The Lieutenant Governor’s Administration in the Union Territory of Jammu Kashmir has taken serious view as 147 JK Administrative Services officers having failed to submit online Self Assessment of Annual Performance Reports (APRs) on ‘JK Sparrow platform’ for the year 2020-2021. Official sources told the Excelsior that taking serious view, the General Administration Department has sent a `caution note’ to these officials and gave them last opportunity to submit APRs on or before August 31, 2021. Sources further revealed that while majority of these officers are Tehsildars and Block Development Officers, but some of them included the officers of the cadre of Deputy Commissioners, Additional Deputy Commissioners, Special Secretaries, Additional Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, district...

The administration on Thursday “empowered” to supervise all developmental works and to check developmental works and attendance of employees in all Government offices within their respective jurisdictions in Jammu Kashmir. “In continuation of the instructions issued on the subject from time to time, it is hereby ordered that the Sub Divisional Magistrates shall be empowered to supervise all developmental works and to check attendance of employees in all Government offices within their respective jurisdictions,” reads a government orders, a copy of which lies with GNS. “The reports thereof, shall however be submitted to the concerned Deputy Commissioners for further action,” the order added. (GNS)

Body of a 24-year-old youth was found along the banks of Bikram Singh Yadgar Mangnar River in Poonch district on Thursday. Official sources said that a police party from police station Poonch rushed to the spot and took the custody of body on receiving information about it.buy stendra online https://www.facebeautyscience.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentyone/inc/new/stendra.html no prescription The body was brought to District Hospital Poonch. Later on, he was identified as Sabar Hussain (24) son of Mohammad Ashraf of Satwari Jammu. A police spokesman said that a case has been registered and further investigation taken up. (GNS)

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad Wednesday chaired a meeting of District Level Coordination Committee under National Tobacco Control Programme to review the implementation of Cigarette and Other Tobacco Product Act (COPTA) at DC Office here. During the meeting, the DC laid stress on the need of awareness generation among the masses regarding the harmful effects of using Tobacco products. The meeting also discussed threadbare the measures to be taken to curb the menace of smoking. The DC asked the members of the Committee to work in close coordination so that Tobacco Control laws are implemented effectively on ground across Srinagar. He directed for strict enforcement of Tobacco Control Laws particularly near Hospitals and Educational institutions and initiate...