• Bombay Mercantile Bank reviving its branches in Valley
• Valley poultry farmers seek ban on import of layer birds
• JK Bank conducts literacy camps, skill dev program
• Airtel DTH to premiere Vishwaroopam before its worldwide release
• NREGA comes under Social Audit
• International Advertising Agency bags award
• Ganderbal farmers go on study tour
• Udyog Dev Foundation nominates coordinators for PRY

In a first, UN funds reach JK for Census workshop

Hi-Tech Software To Be Used For Easy Data Dissemination

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Dec 25: For the first time ever, the United Nations has funded a crucial workshop on data dissemination to be tried on sophisticated software produced by India to sensitize the stakeholders on More

• Bhang Cultivation: Court directs probe against Revenue officials for being in league with cultivators
• Geelani addresses funeral from Delhi
• Saidpora gun-battle aftermath: Police probing ‘veracity’ of posters
• Ahsan Dar released
• Legal Awareness Camps held at Baramulla, Uri

Poor sanitation at Bone & Joints Hospital irks patients

Plaster, dressing rooms turn into garbage dumps

AILING HEALTHCARE

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Dec 25: Patients visiting the Bone and Joints Hospital at Barzulla here face serious health problems due to poor sanitation at the Valley’s lone trauma facility.  Scores of patients who More

• Affected people stage protest at Khanyar
• Bal Diwas observed at Habba Kadal
• Burglars on prowl in South City
• Bal Diwas observed at Habba Kadal
• Locals resent bunker construction at Indira Nagar

In JK Right to Education still farfetched dream

Official Panel Fails To Put Forth Suggestions

ARVIND SHARMA

Jammu, Dec 25: Right to Education as a fundamental right for the children of Jammu and Kashmir remains a far fetched dream as the state government has so far failed to incorporate certain provisions of More

• Flawed transfer policy in Finance Department
• FOG DISRUPTS FLIGHTS, TRAIN SERVICES
• Sarpanchs, Panchs to get remuneration soon: Soz

Vesu Industrial Estate distant dream

Vesu (Qazigund), Dec 25: Ten years ago government had demarcated land for an industrial estate along the Srinagar-Jammu highway here in south Kashmir. However, not a single industrial unit has so far come More

• Recreational park at Lolab set to open in 2013
• 3250 students left studies in 10 years: Study

TOPPERS VIEWS

Girls once again outshined boys in the merit list of the recently announced results of class 10th board exam. First three positions were shared by seven girls, while 255 students made it to the merit list More

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