Noted preacher Haji Tanveer Ahmad Qureshi was killed even as his three colleagues were injured in a tragic accident along Srinagar-Jammu highway on intervening Thursday and Friday night. A police official told GNS that a car - Alto K10 - bearing registration number JK15 0193 skidded off the road and hit a (road) divider in Arwani Bijbehara at around 2 AM. In the incident one person died on spot and three others received injuries, the official said. Identifying the deceased as Tanveer Ahmad Qureshi son of Fazl-ur-Qureshi, resident of Karnah Kupwara at present Bumhama Kupwara, the injured as per the official included Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Jabbar Mir, resident of Trehgam Kupwara, Shahzad Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat, resident of Lolab Kupwara, Umer Khan son of Mohamma...

SDH Kupwara gets NBEMS seats in General Medicine In yet another milestone for Health and Medical Department, the National Board of Examinations has accredited the General Medicine Department of Sub District Hospital (SDH), Kupwara, with approval of two seats in Medical Sciences (NBEMS). In addition, NBEMS has approved 14 more seats for Government Medical Colleges and District Hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir raising the total P G seats approval for the UT to 140 which is above the DM/MCH and MD/MS courses already being run here. The Government Medical Colleges of Kathua and Doda besides Community Health Center, Kupwara, have received approval for 2 seats each in General Medicine department while Government Medical Colleges Anantnag and Rajouri have got approval four seats each in th...

Jammu Kashmir government on Wednesday transferred six IAS officers in the interest of administration with immediate effect. According to a government order, Bipul Pathak, IAS (AGMUT:1992) Principal Secretary to the Government, Department of Rural Development and Panchayatiraj has been transferred and posted as Principal Resident Commissioner, JK House, New Delhi relieving Dheeraj Gupta, IAS of the additional charge. Rohit Kansal, IAS (AGMUT:1995), Principal Secretary to the Government, Power Development Department has been transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, Higher Education Department. “He shall continue to hold charge of Administrative Secretary, Information Department and Principal Secretary (Coodination) to coordinate with Government of India for revi...

In his recent Radio Talk Show, Awaam ki Awaaz, Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha appreciated the suggestions of a resident of Baramulla for promoting institutions of local self-governance. The LG has appreciated his suggestions proposed to the government for promoting and strengthening the institutions of local self-governance and in return, the resident expressed his gratitude to him for considering his suggestion for the same. The Lt Governor, while mentioning Mohd Iqbal Badana who shared a roadmap for strengthening the Panchayati Raj Institutions, said that his suggestions complement the endeavor of the administration to enhance the capacity of the democratic institutions at the grassroots level. Badana lavished praise for the present administration for being responsive to the p...

Vacant posts include doctors, medical officers, pharmacists, physiotherapists, reveals RTI In district hospital Ganderbal at least 200 posts are lying vacant in the hospital, which includes doctors, Para-medics, technical and working staff. According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the district hospital has 28 vacant posts of doctors of various fields. Additionally, 20 posts of medical officers are also unfilled. The Public Information Officer (PIO) of the concerned hospital in a reply to Right to Information (RTI) application filed by the activist, M M Shuja has said that the hospital has 200 posts unfilled. “The hospital has the vacant posts for doctors, Para-medical staff, technical staff including Physiotherapist and other working staff. Besides, 20 posts fo...

CPI(M) Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik has said that the harassment of people by the administration across Jammu and Kashmir in the name of removal of “encroachments” on Roshni land is highly condemnable and unjustified. The administration is forcibly evicting people, who had been in possession of small portions of Roshni lands for generations and were doing cultivation on it. This is being done despite Additional Solicitor General of India (ASGI) Tushar Mehta making a statement in Supreme Court that the J&K government will not take any coercive measures till the review petition against an earlier court order declared the Roshni Act as unconstitutional are decided by the J&K High Court. Even the government of J&K had filed a review petition against the court order. Mehta appe...