Government biggest power tariff defaulter

Departments Owe Rs 1000 Crore To PDD

CM, Dy CM, Former CM Among Non-Payers

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, June 24: Jammu and Kashmir government may be blaming consumers for “not paying” the electricity tariff, the official records, on the contrary, suggest that the government and its functionaries are the biggest defaulters of the Power Development Department (PDD) with arrears amounting to More

Counting gadgets, not electricity usage

VOLUNTARY LOAD DISCLOSURE

ZAHID MAQBOOL

Srinagar, June 24: Power Development Department (PDD) pamphlets asking consumers to come forward and disclose by July 9 electricity load under Voluntary Load Disclosure Scheme (VLDS) have put consumers in a tight spot. However, there is no mention about whether consumers after disclosing their load More

Treat defaulters alike: KCSDS

Srinagar, June 24: Kashmir Centre for Social and Development Studies (KCSDS) has lambasted the Power Development Department (PDD) for its failure to recover around Rs 1000 crore from the government departments including the central forces.“The money could have been utilized for generation of more More

Procedural delays impair healthcare

Rate Contract, Tendering Formalities Render Critical-Care Equipment Defunct

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, June 24: At a time when the state’s healthcare system is in a state of complete disarray due to multitude of problems, precious human lives continue to remain hostage to the “Purchase Committees” and “codal formalities” of the Health and Medical Education Departments.  “It is unfortunate More

Neonatal ICU at verge of breakdown

GB PANT HOSPITAL MESS

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, June 24: Believe it! The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for neonates at Valley’s lone children specialty - GB Pant Hospital is at the verge of breakdown as the life supporting ventilators have not been serviced for the last four years and can stop working any time. Sources in the hospital More

Amarnath Yatra begins

3.5 Lakh Registered For Pilgrimage

GK NEWS NETWORK

Pahalgam, June 24: Despite inclement weather and snow-covered tracks, Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) has put in place all the arrangements for the commencement of this year’s pilgrimage from here to the cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. The annual Yatra is scheduled to begin Monday.  More

PDP was offered power in 2010: Baig

KHALID GUL

Noorabad (Kulgam), June 24: In significant disclosure, senior PDP leader and the former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig Sunday said his party was offered power at the peak of 2010 unrest which it declined.  “PDP is not power-hungry. We were offered power during 2010 unrest, but More

Mufti terms Omar’s power diktat insulting

It's Asli Heating Touch: Karra

KHALID GUL

Noorabad (Kulgam), June 24: Describing as outrageous the chief minister Omar Abdullah’s “diatribe” against the power consumers, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday said it was an insult to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.Addressing a public meeting at Khori Batpora in Kulgam district, party More

Govt withdraws cases against 2100 youth

50 More Case To Be Withdrawn Soon: DGP

2010-unrest

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, June 24: Eight months after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced amnesty to “stone throwers”, cases against 2100 youth named in around 300 FIRs (First Information Reports) on the charges of “stone-pelting and disruption of peace” during the 2010 unrest have been withdrawn. Police More

‘Muslim women have right to seek divorce’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 24: Muslim women, who are victims of domestic violence, have the right to end their marriage by seeking divorce or separation from her husband through 'Khula', the leading Islamic educational institution Bareilly Markaz said here today. President of the All-India Muslim Women More

Seminar on drug abuse at Dooru on June 26

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 24: The office of the Drug Controller Islamabad (Anantnag) is organizing a day-long seminar on ‘Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’ on Tuesday (June 26). The seminar is being held at More

• 2 bodies recovered
• 3 militants return from PaK

Ceasefire violations to figure at Indo-Pak talks

New Delhi, June 24: India is likely to raise the issue of ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch area of Jammu and Kashmir during Foreign Secretary-level More