The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, connecting the state with the rest of the country, was closed to traffic today due to a landslide, triggered by heavy rain in Ramban district.The highway was cl
The meeting was told that out of the total outlay of Rs. 33177 crore under PMRP over Rs. 11065 crore have been spent so far in both Centre and State sectors. The works estimating Rs. 6199 crore are executed by State agencies in the State sector. Of this amount Rs. 4609 crore have been so far expended. The State agencies are also executing Central projects costing Rs. 6341 crore. An expenditure of over Rs. 1624 crore have been incurred so far on these works. The Central agencies are executing works worth Rs. 20636 crore and they have so far completed the works of the order of Rs. 5171 crore.
LEH: The Union Minister for Power KC Venugopal along with the Minister of State for Power and CAPD Shabir Ahmad Khan today visited 45 MW Alchi hydel project to carry out on the spot inspection of t
Governor NN Vohra, who is also the Chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), today visited the Baltal, Panjtarni and Nunwan base camps and reviewed the arrangements made for the annual Amarnath yatra,scheduled to commence on June 29.
The Governor, accompanied by Sunita Narain, member of the SASB, and RK Goyal, CEO of the board, first visited Baltal this morning and reviewed the yatra-r
The strategically important Srinagar-Leh National Highway was thrown open to vehicular traffic today after it remained closed for more than five months due to heavy snowfall.
The highway was thrown open by the General-Officer-in-Commanding of Srinagar-based 15 Corps of the Army, Lt-Gen SA Hasnain.
JAMMU, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday underlined the need for comprehensive and balanced development of twin capital cities and towns in the State keeping in view the challenges on account of sewerage, drainage, transport, parking, housing and commercial activities.
Chairing a high level meeting to take brief about the reforms in urban development sector, the Chief Minister stressed
JAMMU, Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today asked the concerned agencies to work out solutions to the bottlenecks coming in the way of on time completion of Rs. 262.15 crore sewerage treatment projects in the mission cities of Jammu and Srinagar.
SRINAGAR Amid fresh rain and snowfall, the unusual cold spell for April continued to shiver people in Kashmir valley today with day temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of the State, plunging to nearly seven degree centigrade below the normal.
