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The DGP further said that to bring back such misguided youth to the national mainstream many skill development programmes have been initiated by the government and sports has also been given a major push. read more

Many parties have been demanding enactment of a domicile law for Jammu and Kashmir to protect the interests of landowners and the unemployed youth after the erstwhile state lost its special status following nullification of Article 370 by the Centre. read more

The sudden deferment was announced late on Tuesday night through a notification issued by the chief electoral officer (CEO), Shailendra Kumar. “Credible inputs from the law enforcement agencies” were cited as the reason for the postponement of the polls that had been announced on February 13. read more

A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta upheld the validity of the notifications issued by the Central Council of Indian Medicine, which had mandated minimum qualifying marks in NEET for admission to an undergraduate course in Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha streams and postgraduate courses in Ayurveda. read more

Roughly 60 per cent of the total panchayat seats in the union territory remained vacant even after the last edition in November-December 2018 due to lack of participation. read more

Internet was snapped in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5 last year when the Centre abrogated Article 370 and split the erstwhile state into two union territories. read more

Bounded by Punjab to the north, west and south, and by Haryana to the east, both has Chandigarh as their capital city. It is a Union Territory which rests at the foothills of Shivalik hills and has an all encompassing beauty. read more

Six months later, the government has not met its objectives read more

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According to a notification by the home department of Jammu and Kashmir administration, access to the internet with 2G speed on mobile phones will resume from January 25. read more

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A communication blackout and a lockdown were imposed in the region ahead of the nullification of the provision that gave Jammu and Kashmir special status. read more

The central government finalised the plan in 2003 to launch the pilot project in which 3.1 million people, mostly in border districts, were enumerated. read more

The 2G internet resumption is only for “whitelisted” websites and doesn’t include social media. Whitelisting is done to allow access to safe websites. Restoration follows Supreme Court’s January 10 directive to review the ban on internet services in... read more