Administrative Reshuffle: 56 IAS, KAS officers transferred in J&K

Administrative Reshuffle: 56 IAS, KAS officers transferred in J&K

In a major administrative reshuffle in Jammu and Kashmir, at least 56 IAS, KAS and police officers were transferred with eight women officers getting key positions. On Wednesday, the Jammu and Kashmir government had issued three sets of transfer orders, including of 27 IAS and KAS officers comprising a divisional commissioner, deputy commissioners and CEOs, nine SSP and SP-rank police officers and six financial commissioners, additional chief secretaries and principal secretaries. Ramesh Kumar has been posted as Jammu divisional commissioner, relieving Raghav Langer, who has been posted as secretary planning,…

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J&K schools to have uniform academic calendar; Panel formed to chalk out modalities

J&K schools to have uniform academic calendar; Panel formed to chalk out modalities

The School Education Department (SED) has constituted a panel to chalk out modalities for having uniform academic calendar in schools in Jammu and Kashmir. The academic calendar will be in sync with the Higher Education Department (HED) J&K and rest of the country. The move comes in wake of the directions issued by the J&K Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta on April 7 to discuss the action taken and progress achieved under New Education Policy (NEP-2020) and implementation of its key initiatives during the current academic session. Headed by the…

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Experiment with alternative politics: Does Shah Faesal’s political exit mark end of process?

Experiment with alternative politics: Does Shah Faesal’s political exit mark end of process?

In March 2019, when Faesal launched his political party, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement, the bureaucrat had compared himself to the likes of Sheikh Abdullah. In April 2022, however, he called his eight months of political activism ‘chasing a chimaera’. Former Jammu and Kashmir bureaucrat Shah Faesal is all set to leave behind the ‘shadows of the past’ and return to the civil services after quitting in 2019. The move is seen by many as a last-ditch effort by Faesal to return to his former life after failing to make…

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Delimitation panel notifies new J&K Assembly constituencies; Kashmir loses and Jammu gains weight

Delimitation panel notifies new J&K Assembly constituencies; Kashmir loses and Jammu gains weight

43 seats for Jammu division and 47 for Kashmir division demarcated; nine seats reserved for STs for the first time The Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission on Thursday notified the new boundaries, names and number of Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, paving the way for the first-ever Assembly elections in the Union Territory that was carved out of the erstwhile State of J&K in 2019. While not mentioned in its order, the Delimitation Commission said in a statement that it had recommended to the Centre to nominate at least…

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Dog Menace: Kashmir witnessed 5629 dog bite cases in last one year

Dog Menace: Kashmir witnessed 5629 dog bite cases in last one year

A whopping 5,629 bite victims, mostly of dog bites, were reported to the Anti-Rabies Clinic at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital in the last one year. The presence of dogs on every nook and corner has led to man-dog confrontation due to which the number of cases of dog bites has increased in the region, doctors say. An official from ARC SMHS told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022, as many as 5,629 bite cases were reported to ARC SMHS…

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