Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha interacts with PRIs, residents of border villages & various other public delegations, in Kupwara, on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said that over 9,000 landless people have been given land in the region so far and only those eligible will get … Read more
Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha. | Photo Credit: ANI Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant-Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday said he had no plans to live for good in the Union Territory (UT) but “will leave behind exemplary work which will be remembered for a long time”. “There are people who say the L-G will have … Read more
Imran Reza Ansari. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Prominent Kashmiri Shia leader Imran Reza Ansari on July 24 walked out of a meeting with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha after a heated exchange with Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta over the arrangements made for this year’s Muharram, an Islamic month where the … Read more
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday launched India’s first Tele-MANAS chat-bot in the Union Territory, which will ensure round the clock services of health counsellors, clinical psychologists and consultants, officials said. The service was launched after Sinha inaugurated ‘J-K Health Conclave’ on mental health and non-communicable diseases at SKICC here, they … Read more
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday flagged off the first batch of 4,890 pilgrims for the annual Amarnath yatra from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu city for their onward journey to the Pahalgam and Baltal base camps in Kashmir. The 43-day pilgrimage to the cave shrine will begin from twin base camps in … Read more
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha should take the responsibility for the Hyderpora encounter, in which civilians were killed. “What happened (at Hyderpora) was very bad. The oppression has crossed the limits. And the LG should take the responsibility (for the encounter) as he is not … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Jun 24, 2021) Ahead of the Prime Minister’s meeting with political parties from Jammu & Kashmir, the Delimitation Commission secretariat on Wednesday held virtual discussions with all 20 deputy commissioners of the Union territory on details like physical, demographic and administrative issues concerning their respective districts. The data, furnished … Read more
The key question at the prime minister’s Jammu & Kashmir all-party meeting on Thursday is whether all political stakeholders, barring of course the BJP, are willing to take the process of holding assembly polls forward regardless of their public position on Article 370. If yes, it would provide much-needed political legitimacy to the delimitation process, … Read more
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha ordered on Thursday imposition of night curfew in the urban areas of eight districts, including Jammu and Srinagar, to check the spread of the soaring coronavirus cases. The night curfew will come into effect from Friday, the office of the Lt governor said. “Directed the divisional administration to … Read more
Jammu and Kashmir’s District Development Council members belonging to BJP, NC, PDP, Congress, PC and other parties have refused to attend a training session organised by the Union Territory’s administration in protest against the ‘rank’ and ‘salary’ they have been given. After elections of DDC members established the three-tier panchayat system in J&K recently, the … Read more