8-member panel to prepare draft for amendments

Panchayat empowerment row

Srinagar, Jan 28: The row over empowerment of Sarpanchs and Panchs has forced the Speaker Legislative Assembly, Muhammad Akbar Lone, to constitute 8-member committee which would look into the matter, a vernacular news agency KNS reported on Saturday.   After the recent announcement of Chief More

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Bill on juvenile justice unlikely in Budget session

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Jan 28: The chances of proposed legislation to update juvenile justice law in JK coming up in the forthcoming budget session seem to be bleak as it is awaiting clearance from the Finance Department for the past five months.  Sources told Greater Kashmir the proposed legislation More

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Pay anomaly forces medicos to leave valley

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Jan 28: The ‘faulty’ pay scheme in Health and Medical Education Department is forcing specialist doctors to leave valley for better job options. Scores of the doctors, who are appointed as Registrars on three year contract in Government Medical College and its associated hospitals More

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Govt wakes up, starts collecting samples

Milk Adulteration

MUHAMMAD ZAHID

Srinagar, Jan 28: Following the revelation that 83 percent of milk produced in Jammu and Kashmir contains adulterants, the state government has initiated the process of collecting samples. With the disclosures triggering panic, the state government has woken up with Health Ministry seeking More

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Non–utilization, diversion of funds shocking revelation: Senior citizens

Srinagar, Jan 28: Srinagar Senior Citizens’ Forum has expressed shock and serious concern over the media reports about non-utilization and diversion of funds meant for development of Srinagar city.“It is shocking that present dispensation has failed to utilize the funds provided by the central More

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Body recovered

Srinagar, Jan 28: Police today retrieved body of Muhammad Amin son of Ghulam Nabi resident of Mehjoor Nagar, Srinagar from River Jhelum near Hanuman Mandir, Amira Kadal,  A police spokesman said the deceased was missing since October 17, 2011. A missing report was lodged in Police Station More

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1 dies, 2 injured in road mishaps

Srinagar, Jan 28: One person died and two others were injured in different road accidents in Kashmir Valley today. A police spokesman in a statement said Muhammad Sidiq Ganie son of Muhammad Hussain resident of Ganie Mohalla, who was injured in a road mishap in Hyhama Kupwara yesterday, succumbed More

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Floriculture casual workers demand regularisation

ROUF BHAT

Srinagar, Jan 28: The casual workers of Floriculture department on Saturday staged peaceful protest here to press for their regularisation.   The casual workers assembled at Press Enclave and staged peaceful demonstration.  “We have been discharging our duties in different gardens More

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