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New Delhi: The Two-day Lavender Festival-2022 began on Wednesday in Bhaderwah sub-division of Doda district in Jammu & Kashmir. The festival is

Two new cabinet-level appointees hint at plans for the city.

Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, May 25: District Development Commissioner, Jammu, Avny Lavasa today visited Block Dansal to review the development activities and to get the first hand appraisal of the issues being faced by the people of the area. The Deputy Commissioner was accompanied by officers of the line departments and chaired the Block Divas Programme organised at GHSS Dansal. Apart from other issues, people sought adequate power supply, availability of safe drinking water and ration, soli...

Jammu, May 23: The acute shortage of teaching staff in government-run schools has triggered a “crisis-like” situation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, a senior government official said on Monday. District Development Commissioner, Ramban, Mussarat Islam red-flagged the issue of widening gap between sanctioned strength and in-position teaching staff in a communication to the divisional commissioner, Jammu, Ramesh Kumar. He requested for immediate action to put back the school educati...

DC Ramban writes to Div Com for immediate intervention Nishikant Khajuria JAMMU, May 23: Too much centralization of powers has triggered crisis-like situation in the School Education Department as several districts are facing acute shortage of teaching staff in Government -run schools while the Directorate of School Education and the offices of Chief Education Officers have been rendered powerless to address the issue. Amid frequent protests by the students and their parents for adequate teachin...

BHADERWAH, May 22: The ‘Valley of Flowers’, which was a major attraction for visitors to Bhaderwah between May and mid-June before the Covid outbreak, wears a deserted look this season, much to the dismay of tourism stakeholders. The striking view of the Foxglove, a flower that grows in the woods and high-altitude meadows of Bhaderwah, failed to draw tourists this time around. The tourism players have put the blame squarely on the Bhaderwah Development Authority (BDA) for “fai...

A TRUCK laden with 42 000 litres of petrol bound for Zambia overturned along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Wednesday evening, contaminating

One labourer has been killed, while nine others are feared to be trapped under the debris of an under-construction tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district which collapsed last night, District Development Commissioner Mussarat Islam informed on Friday.

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A portion of the mountain fell apart in the Makerkote area at Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban, near the site of the recuse operation, where a part of an under-construction tunnel collapsed late last night.