DURBAR RETURNS

Move Offices Reopen Today

PTI/GKNN

Srinagar, May 8: The Civil Secretariat and other Durbar Move offices, which closed in Jammu on April 29, will reopen in Srinagar on Monday.  The roads around and leading to the civil secretariat are being renovated with labourers working to clean the pathways and painting the roadsides. Security More

Durbar Move: When governance becomes a casualty

Stakeholders Call For ‘Dispassionate Rethink’ On The Centuries-Old Practice

BEYOND THE NEWS

FAHEEM ASLAM Srinagar, May 8: While calling off Durbar Move—the bi-annual shifting of government offices from Srinagar to Jammu and vice-versa—is brushed aside for being a “sensitive issue”, there are no two opinions in Jammu and Kashmir that the practice is taking a heavy More

Income Tax Dept files complaint against separatist leader’s brother, nephew

Cases Of ‘Concealing Income, Evading Taxes’ To Come Up For Hearing On June 18

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, May 8: The Income Tax Department in Jammu and Kashmir has filed complaints against a separatist leader’s elder brother and nephew for allegedly concealing particulars of their income and evading the payment of taxes under the Income Tax Act of 1961. The Income Tax Officer of Anantnag More

CAG pulls up Government

Detects Cost Overruns On 6 Hydel Projects

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, May 8: Pulling up the Jammu and Kashmir Government for the cost overruns on six hydel projects, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said the excess expenditure on these initiatives ranged between 41 to 687 percent amounting to Rs 1,700 crores besides causing time over-run from four More

CM travels to Valley by road

Tastes Rajmash Chawal At Pera

MUHAMMAD TASKEEN

Banihal, May 8: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday traveled along the 300-kilometer Jammu-Srinagar highway to mark his move to the summer capital on the closure of Civil Secretariat in Jammu. Himself on the driving seat, Omar drove through the road with small duration halts at Batote, Peera More

Malik formally appointed JAH president

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, May 8: Jamiat Ahl-e-hadith (JAH) has formally appointed Ghulam Rasool Malik as its new president. The decision was taken at the JAH’s Majlis-e-Shura (Grand Council) meeting at its headquarters at Barbarshah here on Sunday.425 members of the Shura, who had poured from across Jammu More

9 killed in accidents

MUHAMMAD TASKEEN

Banihal/Srinagar, May 8: At least nine persons were killed and nine others injured in separate road accidents and mishaps in Jammu and Kashmir since Saturday evening. Six persons, including a couple and their child, were killed in a road accident on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Banihal on Sunday More