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Administration on Monday ordered removal from services of Naveen Jamwal, Civil Judge (junior division) with immediate effect. According to an order passed by the order of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, the action against Jamwal follows recommendations of the Full court of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. “The Lieutenant Governor is pleased to order the removal of Naveen Jamwal, Civil Judge (junior division)/Munsiff from service with immediate effect,” the order, a copy of which lies with GNS, reads. (GNS)

Kashmir's Grand Mufti, Nasir-ul-Azam on Saturday called for social boycott with those involved in drug menace stating that the growing drug abuse is proving a rot in the society and ruining the lives of youngsters. Talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam welcomed the Amarnath Yatries to Kashmir and also said that the communal hatred must not be spread through the statement by any community. “We must rise to the occasion as a collective society to go for social boycott with the drug dealers and addicts. Young boys are fast falling prey to growing drug abuse. This is proving as a rot in the society and it’s high time we must act to save our young generation,” Islam said. He also called for social boycott with the people involved in drug dealing and ...

The Legal Metrology department today seized and registered cases against two petrol pumps for delivering a shorter quantity of fuel to the consumers. In one of the cases, it was observed that 6 Nozzles of a Petrol Pump located on National Highway at  Srinagar were delivering short fuel by about 30 ml against every 5 Litres. All the Nozzles of the outlet  were seized on spot and the case was  registered under section 30 of Legal Metrology Act, 2009. The department has earlier received a complaint from the consumers in which it was alleged that few Petrol Pumps across Srinagar  were indulging in unfair trade practices and were looting Consumers by using various tricks against them. The LMD soon inspected various Outlets during which two Petrol Pumps were found violating the Law and whe...

A few students of Government Gandhi Memorial College on Friday recited Hanuman Chalisa in protest against the use of loudspeakers by a local mosque in Jammu, officials said. However, police later stopped them from reciting Hanuman Chalisa and detained half-a-dozen students, though they were later let free. The students alleged that they were studying in classrooms, and there was the use of loudspeakers by a local mosque which created "noise pollution" and triggered the student who later staged protests stating that there was a "disturbance" to their studies at the GGM College. The students also alleged that the failure of authorities to stop the usage of Loudspeakers which forced them (students) to chanting of 'Hanuman Chalisa'. The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) on Tuesday ...

Rescuers have retrieved the body of another worker near Khoni Nallah area of Ramban after part of a tunnel collapsed while search continues for others who are trapped, officials said Saturday. "Second body retrieved from debris site at Khooni Nallah. Identity will be ascertained. Body being shifted to District Hospital", Deputy Commissioner, Ramban, Mussarat Islam said in a tweet. On Friday (May 20) evening, landslide, prompted the authorities to suspend the rescue operation. It could not be resumed until this morning due to shooting of stones from the hillock, heavy rains and strong winds, officials said. With the improvement in the weather condition, the rescue operation resumed with the first light of the day with authorities pressing three earth movers and rock-breakers to rea...

Weatherman on Saturday said that a brief spell of rain and thunderstorm “may” occur at scattered places of Jammu and Kashmir mainly towards late afternoon and evening even as temperature recorded a drop. “Currently weather is generally cloudy at most places of Kashmir, hilly areas of Jammu and fair to partly cloudy in plains of Jammu,” an official of the local meteorological department here said. Heat wave, he said, abated from J&K, although temporarily. “A brief spell of rain/thunderstorm may occur at scattered places of Jammu and Kashmir mainly towards late afternoon/evening,” he said, adding, “Widespread rain/thunderstorm accompanied by gusty winds is most likely in Kashmir on May 22nd and on 23rd in Jammu region.” From May 25th till ending May, he said, mainly “dry and hot we...

Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires here to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche to him conveying Islamabad’s strong condemnation of the framing of “fabricated charges” against Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik. The Pakistan Foreign Office, in a late-night statement on Wednesday, said that Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Malik is currently imprisoned in Delhi's Tihar jail. “The Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s grave concern that in a bid to suppress the voice of the indigenous Kashmiri leadership, the Indian government has resorted to implicating them in fictitious and motivated cases,” it said. The Indian side was also conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over Malik’s incarceration in Tihar Jail since 2019 under “inhuman conditions”, it said. ...

Addresses interaction meet of progressive farmers, experts at ICAR-CITH Rangreth Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo Wednesday reaffirmed the government’s commitment with a single focus objective to increase farmers’ income manifold through better technological interventions in farming. The ACS was speaking at a day-long exposure-tour-cum-field visit and interaction meet of progressive farmers with the scientists/experts of ICAR-Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture with focus on best practices in Horticulture. He urged the participating farmers, scientists and officers of agriculture and allied sectors, in particular to horticulture, to work beyond production and productivity to focus mainly on value addition, branding, mar...

Administration on Wednesday issued advisory over misuse of identities of senior level government functionaries through emails, telephone numbers on platforms like whatsapp and other messaging applications for conveying instructions and directions by cyber criminals. “Instances of cyber crimes like hacking, phishing, identity theft etc are being reported on a daily basis from every nook and corner of the country. The number of these crimes have proliferated due to the extensive and unrestricted availability of data and access to technical know-how available on the internet,” reads a circular issued by the government. Government organizations and authorities have especially been targets of these activities for a variety of reasons, the circular, a copy of which lies with GNS, underline...

MGNREGA Engineers Association on Wednesday extended pen-down strike in favour of their demands till May 25. Rohit Dev Singh Manhas, State President MGNREGA Engineers told GNS that government continues to give cold shoulder to the genuine demands of the qualified engineering and other staff despite assurances from time to time. “There will be complete pen down strike till May 25,” he said, adding, “In case government fails to fulfill our genuine we will intensify the protests.” Work in Rural Development Department in Kashmir has remained affected for the several consecutive days as MGNREGA Engineers Association continued with their pen-down strike in favour of their ‘long pending’ demands. The Association has already issued an appeal to the Lieutenant Governor to “intervene” for...