Celebrates PM’s birthday with children SRINAGAR: The Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha Thursday celebrated the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the children of...

Inaugurates multiple development projects at Pampore PAMPORE: Minister for Education, Social Welfare and Health & Medical Education, Sakeena Itoo, Thursday visited Pampore Constituency and inaugurated multiple development projects, aimed at strengthening the educational, healthcare and public service infrastructure in the area. The Minister was accompanied by Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Pampore, Justice (Retd.) Hasnain Masoodi; MLA Tral, Rafiq Ahmad Naik; MLA Pulwama, Waheed Ur Rehman Para and MLA Rajpora, Ghulam Mohi Uddin Mir. Earlier in the day, the Minister inaugurated the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) Pulwama main building at Pampore. The project is expected to provide enhanced facilities for teacher education, training and capacity building. On the occasion, Sakeena Itoo said that strengthening the institutions dedicated...

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry will organise a two-day conference of finance ministers and finance secretaries of states and Union Territories with legislatures on “Financing India’s Journey towards Viksit Bharat,” which will begin on Friday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be present at the conference here which will be attended by several Chief Ministers and finance ministers of states, along with senior officials, according to an official statement on Thursday. The conference will focus on the policy complementarities between the Centre and the States and will bring together academic rigour and practical policy to deliberate on financing challenges and policy priorities for India’s development journey, the statement said. Anuradha Thakur, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs...