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| Govt orders strict ban on temporary engagements, warns officers against failure | | | |
Srinagar: The government has impressed upon all the officers of the State Government to strictly adhere and observe the statutory rules and codal provisions regarding ban on engagement of casual, seasonal, adhoc, consolidated, contractual and need based daily rated workers.
The government has ordered that any person appointed on adhoc/contractual/consolidated/ temporary basis after the imposition of ban on such engagements (on or after 29.04.2010) in contravention of the provisions of the Section 14 of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services
(Special Provisions) Act, 2010 shall forthwith cease to continue.
“Any person engaged as casual/seasonal/need bases worker after imposition of ban | |
| | | | | | | Sos Hermenn Gmeiner School holds Investiture Ceremony | | | |
Jammu ,May 24
SOS Hermann Gmeiner School today organized Investiture ceremony in the school premises for investing its outstanding students as school council. The program was presided over by the chief guest Mr. Amit Sangral SHO Bakshi Nagar Jammu.The programme commenced with the lightning of traditional lamp followed by cultural items like group songs and group dances that mesmerized the audience.
Students were sworn at an impressive way amidst an air of enthusiasm and Vigour. After a traditional welcome by the Teacher In charge Ms. Geeta Bhan of the school, 98 members were given their respective badges. The chief guest in his address told the students to take special care of you | |
| | | | Mayor starts upgradation work of cremation ground shastri Nagar | | | |
Jammu, May 24
Continuing its drive to provide better development activities in Jammu city, Sh Chander Mohan Gupta, Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation today on24-05-2019 conducted the extensive tour of shastri nagar area alongwith officers of engineering wing of Jammu Municipal Corporation and took stock of the various development works in the ward Sh Kavinder Gupta Ex Hon’ble Chief Minister , J&K State, Sh Vikram Randhawa Hon’ble MLC, Sh Jaideep Sharma ,Hon’ble councilor of ward no.22 shastri Nagar area, Sh Vinay Gupta, General Secretary BJP, members of shamshan ghat shastri Nagar development committee including Sardar Balvinder Singh, Chairman, Sh lal man Khajuria , President resident | |
| | | | Day after BJP's victory, Farooq Abdullah bats for better ties with Pakistan | | | |
Jammu,May 24
A day after BJP registered landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections, National Conference chairman Farooq Abdullah on Friday stressed on the need for bettering relations with Pakistan. "We have to live peacefully with our neighbouring country. We cannot live with them in enmity. After 70 years, our people do not have clean water to drink. They don't have electricity and good hospitals," the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister told reporters.
"If we live peacefully, we don't need weapons to fight against them. We should think about making our nation prosperous. For this, we have to come to a solution with Pakistan. It is in their interest as well if they want thei | |
| | | | Lok Sabha Election Results: List of states where BJP won all seats | | | |
On May 23, counting for Lok Sabha elections began and as the day progressed, the scale tipped in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which swept maximum number of seats. The BJP crossed 300 as predicted by PM Narendra Modi in one of his campaign speeches.
The trends showed very poor performance of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha elections. One of the leading opposition parties, Congress, won merely around 50 seats whereas the BJP along with its alliances won nearly 350 seats out of the 542 seats.
As if the majority seats in favour of the BJP wasn't enough, there are states where the BJP won all the seats, wiping out the Opposition completely.
Here are the states where BJP stands with | |
| | | | Amit Shah may debut, Jaitley's role uncertain in Modi's new cabinet | | | | New Delhi , May 24
The most anticipated induction into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers is likely to be that of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah when the new government takes oath next week.
Shah, who has debuted in the Lok Sabha, could join the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) of the second Modi government, sources said. Apart from the prime minister, the CCS comprises the top four of the government – defence, home, external affairs and finance ministers.
In Gujarat, Shah had served as home minister in the governments led by Modi. However, Rajnath Singh, who has retained his Lucknow seat, is one of the senior-most party leaders and served as hom | |
| | | | ‘Government Medical College Anantnag gets 100 MBBS seats’ | | | | Srinagar: The Anantnag administrative department has got confirmation from apex body of Medical Council of India (MCI) through email whereby it has been confirmed that Govt Medical College Anantnag (GMC Anantnag) is getting letter of permission (LOP) for admission to 100 MBBS seats from current academic session.
Principal secretary Attal Dullo confirmed this to GNS that Goverment of India has granted permission for Medical college Anantnag for the upcoming NEET 2019-2020 academic session.
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He further said that 100 MBBS students will be taken for upcoming session.
Medical Superintendent, District Hospital Anantnag, Dr Majid Mirab alao confirmed to GNS about the GOI granting | |
| | | | Weather to remain cloudy for next 3 days | | | | Srinagar
The Jammu and Kashmir metrological department has predicted cloudy weather for the next three days.
The spokesman said that weather would remain generally cloudy till May 27, and will gradually improve from Monday throughout the state.
From the last 20 hours, intermittent rains have occurred in most places of Jammu and Kashmir. The spokesman added that there would be a significant decrease in rainfall from this afternoon. | |
| | | | Modi cannot remove Art 370, 35A from J&K: Farooq | | | |
JAMMU: National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Friday said that no matter how powerful Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become after winning with the majority, but he cannot remove Article 35A and Article 370 from the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
“No matters how much powerful he (Mr Modi) likes but he cannot remove Article 370 and Article 35A from the state,” Dr Abdullah here told reporters on his arrival from Srinagar after again being elected as Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency.
National Conference has won all the three seats of Kashmir valley.
He replied to a question when asked that BJP has said that they will abrogate Article 370 and 35A from J&K | |
| | | | Kashmir under tight security with internet services suspended amid terrorist killing | | | |
Srinagar
Hours after the killing of most wanted terrorist Zakir Musa, the local authorities have suspended mobile Internet services across the Valley. The move is seen as a preventive one to ensure that inflammatory images and posts post are not uploaded on the social media platforms.
Besides, schools and colleges have also been shut down for a day in the Kashmir Valley. According to the police report, Musa was killed in an encounter with security forces in Tral in Pulwama in the morning. He was the commander of al-Qaeda linked Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind.
One AK-47 rifle and a rocket launcher have been recovered in the operation at Dadsara village in Tral which began on Thursday. The o | |
| | | | Four new Supreme Court judges administered oath of office | | | |
New Delhi , May 23
Four new judges of the Supreme Court were on Friday administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
With the swearing in of the four judges, the number of judges in the Supreme Court stands at 31, the full sanctioned strength of the top court.
Justices B R Gavai, Surya Kant, Aniruddha Bose and A S Bopanna were administered oath of office by the CJI in court no.1 in the presence of several other sitting apex court judges. The apex court, which was functioning with 27 judges including the CJI has now reached its full strength of judges for the first time since 2008 when Parliament had increased the number of judges from 26 to 31.
On Wedne | |
| | | | Congress may fail to secure leader of the opposition post again | | | |
New Delhi
The Congress is unlikely to get the post of the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha for a second time in a row as it has yet again failed to get 10% seats in Parliament’s lower House.
To get the LoP post, a party should get 55 out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. At the time of filing this report, the Congress had won or was leading on 52 seats, three short of the numbers needed to get the post.
After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance government came to power in 2014, it refused to give the LoP post to the Congress arguing that with 44 members it did not meet the requisite criteria.
There were protests from the Opposition as the LoP | |
| | | | Encounter in Tral ends, Zakir Musa's body handed over to family | | | |
Srinagar, May 24 An encounter, which ensued between militants and security forces on Thursday night in Tral area of Pulwama district of south Kashmir, ended on Friday morning after over 12 hours with the killing of chief of Ansar Gazwatul Hind Zakir Musa.
Security forces said it was major success as Musa was most wanted militant carrying a reward of Rs 15 lakhs on his head.
Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) top commander Burhan Wani was also killed in the same area in July 2016 which later evoked valley wide protests and clashes for several months in which over 100 persons were killed in security force action. Later, over hundred young boys joined militancy.
Body of Musa was handed | |
| | | | Lok Sabha election results 2019: ‘BJP’s successes because of greats like him’, says PM Modi after meeting LK Advani | | | | New Delhi , May 24
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited senior leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday, a day after the BJP’s massive victory in the Lok Sabha election, and acknowledged their contributions to the party’s growth.
The Prime Minister was accompanied by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s president Amit Shah.
“Called on respected Advani Ji. The BJP’s successes today are possible because greats like him spent decades building the party and providing a fresh ideological narrative to the people,” PM Modi tweeted after the meeting.
Modi and Amit Shah later went to Murli Manohar Joshi’s house in the Capital.
“Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi is a scholar and intellectual pa | |
| | | | Raj Babbar offers to resign, owns moral responsibility | | | | Lucknow, May 24: Owning moral responsibility for the rout of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, state Congress President Raj Babbar has reportedly sent his resignation to Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress could win only one seat (Rae Bareli) in the state and Rahul Gandhi lost Amethi to Union Minister Smriti Irani.
Raj Babbar also lost the Fatehpur Sikri seat that he contested. He lost the seat to Raj Kumar Chahar of BJP by a margin of overt four lakh votes.
In a tweet, the actor-turned-politician said: “My best wishes to the winners. The UP Congress results have been disappointing. I have failed to discharge my responsibility effectively and I blame myself for this. I will | |
| | | | Jammu-bound stranded vehicles to ply on Kashmir highway | | | |
Srinagar, May 24 : Only one-way traffic will continue on Srinagar-Leh National Highway and historic 86-km-long Mughal road, linking Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region, the official told UNI.
Despite rain, the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was through for traffic, he said adding only stranded vehicles were allowed to ply. Jammu-bound stranded vehicles, including trucks carrying apple besides empty oil tankers, besides passengers, were allowed to move this morning. However, no vehicle will be allowed from opposite direction since only one-way traffic will continue on the highway till further orders, he said.
Only one-way traffic is allowed on the | |
| | | | About 8,000 Voters Chose NOTA In Jammu And Kashmir's Baramulla | | | | SRINAGAR: About 8,000 voters opted for the none of the above (NOTA) button in elections to the Baramulla parliamentary constituency of Jammu and Kashmir which was won by National Conference's Mohammad Akbar Lone.
In Baramulla constituency of north Kashmir, 7,999 voters pressed the NOTA button, an election official said.
He said NOTA secured 1.79 per cent of the total votes polled in the constituency.
The NOTA secured more votes than four of the nine candidates who were in the fray in the constituency, the official said.
In Udhampur constituency of Jammu region, 7,472 voters pressed the NOTA button - more than what seven candidates contesting the seat polled, the official said.
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