Omar seeks financial assistance for Sarpanchs, Panchs

Writes To Jairam Ramesh

DAMAGE CONTROL?

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Jan 18: In a damage control exercise Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has shot a letter to Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh seeking release of Rs 100 crore for monthly honorarium More

• DAK welcomes ban on private practice of HoDs
• Geelani calls for shutdown on Jan 26
• Individual security can’t be provided to 33000 panchayat members: DGP
• Omar to address young changemakers
• NC WC of Kargil tenders resignation

Directs for immediate restoration of essential services

DIV COM CONDUCTS CITY TOUR

Srinagar, Jan 18: Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Dr. Asgar Hassan Samoon today conducted an extensive tour of Srinagar city and took stock of situation arising due to snowfall. The Divisional Commissioner More

• SMC conducts snow clearance near shrines, masjids
• Psychotherapeutic session held at DDC
• Shaher-e-Khaas traders threaten stir

Sagar hospitalized

Jammu, Jan 18: Minister for Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Sagar was hospitalized on Friday afternoon, after he complained of chest pain. Sources said that soon after Friday More

• Govt orders re-verification of BPL lists
• 'Avoid provocative utterances'
• G H Mir calls on Governor

Qadri summoned by Canadian authorities for asylum oath breach

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, Jan 18: Firebrand cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who led a massive protest against the government here, has been summoned by Canadian authorities to explain a violation of the oath he had taken while More

The menace of tuition centers

Why have tuition centers become centres of nuisance for local residents and female students?

CONCERN

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

In a 20×12 tin shed at Parraypora, a physics teacher is teaching complex equations to around 200 students crammed in one classroom. Outside the ‘classroom’, dozens of youngsters roam around, speeding away More

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