General Election 2024 is still far away, but it hasn’t stopped political parties from devising strategies to prepare well for the big battle. After the return of Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress for the third consecutive time by defeating Prime Minister…

SRINAGAR: The Tribal Affairs Department J&K has issued notification seeking applications from tribal students for awards of Post-Matric Scholarship and Pre-Matric Scholarship for the year 2021-22. The procedure and income slabs have been notified and students…

A note Deendayal Upadhyaya wrote under his series ‘Political Diary’, in the RSS mouthpiece ‘Organiser’, in its February 29, 1960 edition, provides insights into the Jana Sangh viewpoint on Jammu and Kashmir. Upadhyaya noted: “Jana Sangh has all along been…

Jammu: The Center today extended the deputation of high profile Jammu and Kashmir Police officer S.M. Sahai to the National Security Council Secretariat by another year. 1987 batch IPS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre, Sahai is with National Security Council…

The Chamber President asserted that Chamber will continue to fight for cause of Jammu Province till this significant battle for genuine rights reaches a logical conclusion.

Jammu: Some student groups Wednesday staged separate protests against the higher education department here to increase undergraduate seats in all the constituent colleges of Cluster University Jammu. https://youtu.be/vETKziuLlDM Protesters including activists…

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir administration appeared to have bought quick peace with the agitating employees of the Department of Information and Public Relations who have called off their strike a day after upping the ante against the Director. http…

While the Manoj Sinha administration has scaled up the security grid across the Kashmir Valley to pin down the militants, it has also ordered immediate measures for moving the workers to safer places. Along with these local procedures of immediate nature…

Barring Mahajans, Khatris and Sikhs from buying agricultural land was also one of the key issues on which the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry had called a successful shutdown in the region's major business centers in September 22. The shutdown was…

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Jammu and Kashmir's Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today said that there is a need to remind the elderly and the younger generations about how Pakistan is killing our people and trying to divide us by disrupting communal harmony. https://www.youtube.co…

Kamal Arora is perhaps the only person in this lot who has carried sustained political influence across over two decades in his electoral constituency Bishnah, in Jammu district.

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The New Delhi meeting has committed humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan while it has desired the Taliban make sure their territory is not used for terrorism, extremism and radicalisation. A Taliban spokesman has welcomed the outcome of New Delhi meeting…

JAMMU: Pressing the panic button for around 400 odd rich and elite of Jammu and Kashmir, the Housing Board is on the back foot on its much talked about order of retrieving the designated ten-feet strip on fronts of the residential houses in Jammu’s plush…

The Home Minister, who was recently in Jammu and Kashmir, has once again promised elections after the delimitation process is complete. But no timeline has been given out. It appears that elections could actually be a little farther than one expects. While…

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