SRINAGAR, (PTK): Basharat Qayoom IAS (Jharkhand 2016) has been appointed as Assistant Secretary in Department of Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers Welfare of Government of India,on completion of Phase-II training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, for a period of 13 weeks from 02.07.2018 to 28.09.2018 on Central Deputation. (PTK)
SRINAGAR, (PTK): A top Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander on Tuesday said that Amarnath Yatris were their guests and that the reports suggesting that militants were planning to attack them were baseless. “Amarnath Yatra is not our target. They (yatris) come here to perform their religious rituals. They (yatris) are our guests,” said Riyaz Naikoo, Field Operational Commander,…
SRINAGAR, (PTK): State General Secretary of Pradesh Congress Committee & MLA Bandipora Usman Majid has urged His Excellency Governor J&K N.N. Vohra to intervene in J&K Waqf Board,as there are allegations that PDP-BJP has made “backdoor appointment” of their relatives and aides in it & also there is huge Misappropriation of funds. Usman said,the fact…
JAMMU, (PTK): The denizens of Jammu grappled with blistering heat on Monday with the maximum and minimum temperatures settling several notches above normal. The city of temples recorded a high of 41.5 degrees Celsius and a low of 26.4 degrees Celsius, a spokesperson of the meteorological department said. The city’s day temperature is 3.8 degrees above normal and…
New Delhi: India has been ranked as the world’s most dangerous country for women, worse than war-torn Afghanistan and Syria, due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, a survey of global experts by the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey has revealed. The only western nation to figure in the poll…
Sheikh Nadeem SRINAGAR, (PTK): The inhabitants of Kulgad, and Thajiwara areas of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday staged a demonstration against the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department over non-availability of drinking water in their villages. Men and women assembled and blocked the Achabal – Anantnag road for several hours. They raised anti-PHE slogans. “There…
