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Ram Nath Kovind is India's 14th President
Press Trust of India
New Delhi, Jul 20:Ram Nath Kovind, the ruling NDA coalition’s candidate, was elected as India's 14th President on Wednesday with an overwhelming majority of votes from the country's lawmakers.Kovind defeated the joint opposition candidate Meira Kumar, a former Lok Sabha speaker, garnering 65.65 percent of the votes in the Electoral College, the Returning Officer for the poll announced today.Expressing happiness over the "extensive" support Kovind got from the electoral college, Prime Minist ReadModi, Mehbooba congratulate Kovind
New Delhi/Srinagar, Jul 20:Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Ram Nath Kovind on being elected as ...Read
Six killed in Doda cloudburst
Mohd Majid MalikBhaderwah/Thatri:Six persons were killed and 11 injured after flash floods triggered by a cloudburst w...Read
Minor girl crushed to death by Army vehicle
Shafat MirShopian, July 20: A 12-year-old girl was mowed down by an Army vehicle in south Kashmir's Shopian distr...Read
Ready for talks with China to end stand-off: Indi...
New Delhi, Jul 20:India said today it is ready for talks with China with both sides first pulling back ...Read
Withdrawal of Indian troops precondition for talk...
K J M VarmaBeijing, Jul 20: China Wednesday said that diplomatic channels with India remained "unimpeded" to disc...Read
Shabir Salaria passes away
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar, July 20:A lone survivor from a 36-member family of the Jammu Massacre, Choudhary Shabir Ahmad...Read
PCI should restore its credibility in JK: KEG
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar: Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) has suggested a visiting sub-committee of the Press Counc...Read
Misleading depiction of Jihad aimed to misguide y...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar: Stating that misleading depiction of Jihad is aimed to misguide innocent youth and ma...Read
News
SHRC asks Govt to pay minimum wages to persons em...
'Riyaz Bhat''Srinagar:'State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) Thursday said Government’s treatment to Contingent Paid Workers (CPWs) is “worst type of human rights violation.”State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) also directed government to pay minimum wages to all th... Read
CUK, Bandipore College hold Youth S...
Rising Kashmir NewsBandipore:Department of Students Welfare (DSW), Central Universit...Read
Azad expresses regret over cloudbur...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar: Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajy...Read
Forces sans any accountability, con...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) spokesman while condemning the ...Read
City
Transporters, traders threaten self-immolation if...
'Riyaz Bhat'' Srinagar: 'Following a two-day strike call ‘Chakka Jam’, transporters of General Bus Stand (GBS) Batamaloo Thursday threatened that they will burn themselves as well as their buses if government does not withdraw the orders of shifting Batamaloo Bus Stand to ... Read
Javaid condemns civilian killings
Rising KashmirSrinagar: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (H) Javaid ...Read
Naeem tours Sonawar constituency, d...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar: Minister for Public Works Naeem Akhtar Thursday held a ...Read
Asiea reviews ULB functioning, dire...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar: Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, So...Read
Kashmir
CS stresses on timely submission of UCs
'''Srinagar: 'Chief Secretary, B B Vyas Thursday underlined the importance of submitting utilization certificates (UCs) on time to pave way for speedy and effective implementation of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes. Chairing the meeting of the Committee of Secretaries (... Read
PCI team interacts with media-perso...
Anantnag:The three-member team of Press Council of India (PCI) l...Read
Govt focused on ensuring grassroots...
Anantnag: Reaffirming his commitment for overall Development at g...Read
DFCO suspends 23 licenses in Budgam
Budgam: In order to curb the Psychotropic/Habit forming drugs, ...Read
Jammu
We don't support violence on pretext of cow vigil...
'SYED AMJAD SHAH ''Jammu, July 20:'Rashtriya Swavayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Thursday said they don’t support violence on the pretext of cow protection and sought action against those taking “law in their own hands”. “We don’t support any form of violence. We are also wo... Read
People living along LoC, IB bearing...
Jammu: National Conference on Thursday said that the people li...Read
Sushma Swaraj’s forged letter case:...
Rising Kashmir NewsJammu:Sub Judge Katra, Sandeep Gandotra, on Thursday granted ...Read
AJKPC demands arrest of Agarwal for...
Rising Kashmir NewsJammu: Condemning the Rajya Sabha member Naresh Agarwal’...Read
Editorial
See reason
''''For the last two weeks confrontation between India and Pakistan on borders has taken an ugly turn. It has claimed nearly 20 lives on both sides and scores are injured. Saddest part is that some children have fallen victim to this addiction of hitting the trigg... Read
GST and inflation
The implementation of Goods and Service Tax regime in t...Read
Work Ethics
Though the state has never been known for sound work cu...Read
Road terror
In J&K mourning seems to have become perennial as t...Read
Opinion
Shivraj Ji: NSA cannot silence farmers
'Santosh Bhartiya'''Santosh Bhartiya santoshbhartiya@hotmail.com Is it really so that a big conspiracy has been hatched or in the process of being hatched against farmers? This question comes to the fore because an important administrative order has been issued by the Madhya Prad... Read
India’s got more problems to addres...
Kamal MorarkaKamal Morarka The events reported in news are not very ...Read
Killings militants will not kill po...
Akmal HananAkmal Hanan akmalhanan07@gmail.com There has been no le...Read
Social codes under stress
D Suba ChandranSuba Chandran subachandran@gmail.com The attack on Amar...Read
Business
Now learn baking fondant cakes in Srinagar
'''' Young girls were proudly rolling out their beautiful creations of fondant cakes on Thursday to score maximum and earn certification from Institute of Hotel Management Srinagar. Around 24 students had enrolled for the two week course of ‘Fondant and Icin... Read
Drabu for incentivizing JK's skille...
SRINAGAR, JULY 19: Minister for Finance, Dr Haseeb Drabu Wednesday said th...Read
800 runners from across India parti...
Srinagar, July 19: Over 800 athletes from different states of India partic...Read
Veeri for institutional asset creat...
BUDGAM, JULY 19: Minister for Revenue, Relief, Rehabilitation, Reconstru...Read
Sports
YSS grieved over employee’s death
'''Srinagar:'The employees of Directorate of Youth Services & Sports Department gathered in the meeting hall of the Directorate to condole sad demise of one of their colleague Raju Singh. The Directorate employees In the presence of Deputy Director Central Haji Mirza H... Read
Sports activities will harness posi...
SRINAGAR, JULY 18: Minister for Youth Services and Sports, Information Tec...Read
Girls Rugby League reaches final st...
Srinagar, 18: After a scintillating set of quarter finals on 16 July,...Read
Uniforms, sports kits distributed a...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar:With an aim to reach out to the sports aspirants, Mir L...Read
Viewpoint
Unswachh puddles on holy Amarnath Yatra
'Nirupama Subramanian'''Indian Express The Swachch Bharat Mission is everywhere – at least in terms of advertisements in newspapers, television and cinemas, hoardings, leaflets, stickers and so on. Many have spoken on how all the money sunk into the campaign has changed little ... Read
Ongoing Balochistan conflict
Naveed Qazinaveedqazi@live.com Balochistan has been notoriously ni...Read
Principles of gaining weight
Dr Qayum Hamid Changalqhchangal@gmail.com My last article was about the neces...Read
Modi has squandered goodwill he won...
Mani Shankar AiyarNDTV Anil Kumar Jha, fiery Madhesi leader from the Nepa...Read
Responses
Scholarships
'Dear Editor'''Different scholarship schemes were launched by governments, the central government in particular in the last many years. Although students have received some help but the schemes could never be implemented properly. First of the all as soon as some such scheme... Read
AFSPA and killings
Dear Editor,This is in response to the news titled “Dubbed as...Read
Interviews
Dear Editor, With regards, we the shortlisted candidate...Read
TV anchors
Dear Editor,This is regarding the TV jokers called anchors entertai...Read
