11 Mar : The people of Jammu who struggled for months to get a Central University are in for a rude shock. Politics rather than academic strength or administrative acumen will decide the future VC of this prestigious University. Highly placed sources indicated that the likely panel to be submitted to the President within the next few
days will include a second-rate academic, a retired director and a superannuating bureaucrat from the UGC. All three candidates are backed by powerful political lobbies from within the state and the centre.
Prof Rajive Gupta, …

By Sadaket Malik :Basaki Naga has several temples in the vernacular style in Bhalessa area, some of them are at Bheja and Gandoh. The main temple Kalgoni may be typical example of the Naga temples is located at an idyllic location on the top of a ridge, providing a magnificient panoramic view on all sides, yet most of the Naga temples in Bhaderwah may be found surrounded with thick deodar trees, away from the habitation. Named after the major stream of Bhalessa “Kalgoni’ which straches from “Kansozoo” and merge into …

5 Mar : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said the government is contemplating to make rural services mandatory for all medicos to improve health facilities in rural areas of the state.
Those medicos who serve in rural areas under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) will get additional points in Public Service Commission (PSC) selection process, he said at a meeting organised to review progress made under NRHM at Civil Secretariat in Jammu last evening.
He stressed on achieving maximum physical and financial targets under NRHM and asked the authorities …

By MOHD MAJID MALIK ,Bhadarwah, Feb 27 :To continue its drive for the welfare of the society and the nation as a whole today 4RR (BIHAR) Battalion at Bhalla. Bhadarwah organized Medical Camp under the aegis of Operation Sadhbhavana Project under the supervision of Major Mahim Kumar offg. CO at remote Village in Tehsil Bhadarwah where more than 700 needy and poor patients of nearby villages were examined by Army Doctors and Civil Doctors of SDH Bhadarwah and free medicines were distributed to needy and poor patients who are not …

By Sadaket Malik
Army was called today to patrol in a dozen curfew-bound Kashmir villages as tension appeared today after Friday prayers. Forces were deployed in the the villages of Baramulla district with mixed population of Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Army patrolled throughout the day in the curfew-bound areas as announcements were made asking people to remain indoors as tension prevailed in the villages.
The Shia-Sunni clashes erupted Thursday afternoon. Sunnis were strongly resisting the naming of a market square in the Kangamdora village, 30 km from here, after a Shia cleric which …