Author: Agencies
JAMMU: The premier annual conference of the Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL) — CUTICON J&K 2025 — was successfully organized on October 25–26, 2025, at the Convention Centre, Canal Road, Jammu, under the aegis of IADVL Jammu & Kashmir State Branch. The conference was led by Dr. Devraj Dogra, Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology, GMC Jammu, as the Organizing Chairperson, and Dr. Rohini Sharma, Associate Professor and Head, GMC Rajouri, as the Organizing Secretary. The theme of the conference, “Exploring Dermatology: Past, Present, and Future,” focused on revisiting the rich legacy of dermatology while exploring new horizons…
NEW DELHI : Union Minister and Member of Parliament from Udhampur, Dr. Jitendra Singh, today chaired a review meeting through video conference to assess the ongoing preparations for the Sardar@150 Campaign — the nationwide commemoration campaign marking the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The Minister is personally overseeing the campaign’s rollout across five districts in Jammu and Kashmir to ensure that the event becomes a people’s movement celebrating unity and national integration. The review meeting was attended by senior officials and representatives including Baldev Singh Billawaria, Babu Ram, Darshan Kumar, Tripathi Narian Dutt, Athar Hussain, Vishal Singh Thakur, Arjun Rana, Ranuka…
JAMMU: The annual shifting of the seat of power from Srinagar to Jammu, popularly known as the Darbar Move, is back in motion after a four-year gap. The tradition, suspended in 2021 by the Lieutenant Governor’s administration, has been revived by the Omar Abdullah-led National Conference government this year. The revival has triggered a major facelift drive across the winter capital, with civic agencies working overtime to renovate government offices, clean roads, and enhance public infrastructure. The J&K government had ordered the closure of offices in Srinagar by October 31, shortly after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced the restoration of…
SRINAGAR: Campaigning for the Budgam byelection, opposition PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday accused Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of abandoning the constituency after winning the assembly election last year. “Before the assembly polls, he (Omar) had said that he would retain the seat where he would get more votes. However, he left Budgam even after getting more votes from here,” Mufti said at a public meeting for PDP candidate Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi in Budgam. The Budgam assembly segment is going to the bypolls on November 11. The seat was vacated by Abdullah, who chose to retain Ganderbal…
SRINAGAR: CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine and National Medicinal Plants Board, Ministry of AYUSH have conducted a one-day Buyer-Seller Meet on Medicinal and Aromatic plant sector for the growers, startup and industries at CSIR-IIIM, Branch Lab. Srinagar. Dr. Zabeer Ahmed, Director CSIR-IIIM, was the chief guest, Dr. Suresh Sharma, Director, AYUSH J&K and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of J&K Medicinal Plant Board was the guest of honour while as Kavita Tyagi, Consultant, Medicinal and Agronomy, NMPB, Prof. T.H. Masoodi, Nodal Office, RCFC North NMPB-II and Prof. Mansoor Wani Wani, HoD Botany, Kashmir University were on presidium. A spokesperson said that…
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 4.5 billion in the week that ended October 17 to USD 702.280 billion, primarily driven by a rise in gold reserves, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its latest ‘Weekly Statistical Supplement’. The country’s forex kitty is hovering close to its all-time high of USD 704.89 billion touched in September 2024. For the reported week, India’s foreign currency assets (FCA), the largest component of foreign exchange reserves, stood at USD 570.411 billion, down USD 1.692 billion. The RBI data showed that gold reserves currently stand at USD 108.546 billion,…
MUMBAI: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd may spend about USD 12-15 billion over the next few years on AI infrastructure that could include a giant 1GW data centre, Morgan Stanley said in a report. Ambani had at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in August announced a major push into AI through a new subsidiary and strategic partnerships. A new wholly-owned subsidiary, Reliance Intelligence will spearhead the conglomerate’s AI initiatives that will be centered around four pillars — Infrastructure (building gigawatt-scale, AI-ready data centers), Partnerships (collaborating with global tech leaders to bring cutting-edge AI solutions to India), Services (developing AI-powered…
NEW DELHI: Close to 8,000 schools across the country had zero enrolments during the 2024-25 academic session, with West Bengal accounting for most such schools, followed by Telangana, according to official data. A total of 20,817 teachers were employed in the schools with zero enrolments. In a peculiar case, West Bengal accounted for 17,965 such teachers, along with the highest number of schools without enrolments (3,812). According to the Ministry of Education’s statistics, 7,993 schools had zero enrolments, down by over 5,000 from the previous year’s count of 12,954. Meanwhile, Haryana, Maharashtra, Goa, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura…
Inauguration by Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on Monday (27th October, 2025) at Industrial Biotech Park, Ghatti, Kathua Organised by CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu
United States President Donald Trump on Sunday yet again claimed credit for stopping hostilities between India and Pakistan, which started following the deadly Pahalgam terror attack in April of this year. “I got it done (ceasefire). There are others. If you look at India and Pakistan. I could say almost any one of the deals that I’ve already done I thought would have been more difficult than Russia and Ukraine, but it didn’t work out that way,” President Trump said while interacting with press persons aboard Air Force One. President Trump made these comments when asked about the possibility of…