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Jammu: More than 1.59 lakh registrations were recorded under Mission YUVA in the past six months with 44,857 proposals approved and loans worth Rs 756.28 crore sanctioned in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.On June 28 last year, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah launched the much-anticipated Mission YUVA (Yuva Udyami…

New Delhi, Jan 4: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Saturday ordered a major reshuffle of IAS and IPS officers of the AGMUT cadre, transferring several officers across Union Territories and states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. According to an…

  Srinagar, December 3 : From safer childbirths to healthier childhoods, Jammu and Kashmir is quietly scripting a healthcare success story. Sustained reforms and focused interventions are now reflecting in tangible improvements across key maternal, infant and child health indicators in the Union Territory. Jammu and Kashmir has emerged as…

“Heroin use rising among youth, warning for society; Religious leaders joining movement to energise community awareness; Will extend drug-free model to every district of Kashmir; Society must back medical institutions fighting addiction crisis” Srinagar, Jan 3 : Expressing deep concern over the growing drug addiction crisis in Jammu and Kashmir,…

“Heroin use rising among youth, warning for society; Religious leaders joining movement to energise community awareness; Will extend drug-free model to every district of Kashmir; Society must back medical institutions fighting addiction crisis” Srinagar, Jan 3 : Expressing deep concern over the growing drug addiction crisis in Jammu and Kashmir,…

Sameer Ahmad Anantnag,03 Jan: Sheeba Ashraf, a 14-year-old student from the Sagam Kokernag area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, has scripted her maiden book titled “A Musht-e-Khaak” (A Handful of Dust) in the Urdu language. A Class 9 student, Sheeba has emerged as Kashmir’s youngest Urdu author, joining the rare…

Continuing its unwavering operation against drug peddlers, Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) Kashmir achieved a significant breakthrough by arresting a hard-core lady drug peddler namely Tamana Ashraf daughter of Mohammad Ashraf resident of Batamaloo Srinagar involved in FIR No. 10/2023 u/s 8/20 NDPS Act registered at ANTF Jammu and was evading…

As part of its sustained drive against illegal mining, J&K Police have seized 02 vehicles (one Tipper and one JCB) involved in the illegal extraction and transportation of minerals in the Sugan and Keegam areas of the district Shopian.A police party of Police Post Turkwangam during routine patrolling intercepted one…

J&K Police conducted a district-wide verification drive to check the use of unauthorized Virtual Private Network (VPN) services in Shopian, during which 15 individuals were identified. The drive was carried out in strict compliance with the prevailing prohibitory orders in force, aimed at restricting the use of unauthorized VPNs to…