Bhalessa: With a view to re-conserve composite culture and educational canvas of Bhalessa, IGNOU organized an Induction cum Composite Mushaira” here at Bhalessa today. A large number of students, Youth and community members participated in the programme. The main objective of the programme was to make the local people aware of the objective of IGNOU [...]

O.P. Sharma writes: Dogri, the language spoken by the dogras living in J & K and elsewhere is a living and vibrant language. As part of mainstream Indian regional languages, Dogri too is now contributing significantly to Indian literature.
The Dogri folk music and world-famous Basohli miniature paintings constitute proud cultural heritage of India. Besides, Dogras’ [...]

Kashmir issue is neither “Hamara Androoni Mamla” nor “Our integral part” as such, nor terrorism sponsored by neither Pakistan nor can the two nation theory of 1930, 1940 or 1947 be applied to the Kashmir of 1993”.
The history of the state lacks absurdly the evidence of viewpoints made by majority of unsung heroes of the [...]

Bhalessa: India is claiming to have progressed in implementing the national flagship programmes like Food for All, Water for All, Health for All, but the rural areas in the state like of Bhalessa in Doda speaks of the real picture of such so called claims.
The access to basic amenities including nutrition, health, and electricity has [...]

Jammu: Tucked away from the limelight and hustle-bustle of the city is a town in the lap of Himalayas called Bhalessa. While nature has blessed the township with abundant resources to boast of, the other thing that this little mountain town proudly boasts of these days is the booming interest in education and growth in [...]

Jammu: Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday assured Kashmiri Pandits that he would do his best to fulfil the central government’s commitment on the return and rehabilitation of the migrants to Jammu and Kashmir.
The return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrant Hindus – 350,000 of who fled the Valley en masse in 1990 – “is [...]

Jammu: Mithun Manhas is a 28-year-old cricket player from Bhalessa Village of Jammu in India. An experienced player at India’s domestic level, has put his village on drivers seat as the local youth got inspired owing to his presence in national repute.
Manhas has been part of the Delhi Ranji team since the 1997-98 season. He [...]

Jammu: Light up Bhalessa- A youth organization was set up here to suggest a road map to the successive governments at the state and centre for preservation of culture, speeding up of developmental initiatives all ready in place but administrative apathy need a fleeting attention.
In this regard, an amalgam of six organizations which will be [...]

Jammu: Contrary to the tall claims of the state government for providing basic necessities to the people living in rural remote areas of the state of Jammu & Kashmir, Bhalessa area is still inadequate food supply on the part of the state food and supplies department. The department is reluctant to act and people in [...]

Jammu: Mudaser Nawaz Zargar- a Youth National Conference Leader today expressed concern over the plight of the poor people as the government has banned the pre paid mobile service in the state.
Addressing the youth here at Jammu, he called upon the Ministry of home affairs to think of the alternate so that the subscribers may [...]

Jammu: Despite tall claims streamlining the Public Health Engineering department, Hundreds of villages in far-flung areas of Doda are still facing water scarcity. MLA Doda Abdul Majid Wani today allege that the Water Supply Schemes started way back have not been completed in the mountainous district, causing severe shortage of drinking water in few rural [...]

Jammu: Four children, including two girls, were injured when an explosive device they were fiddling with accidentally went off in the India-controlled Kashmir, police said Monday.
The explosion took place Sunday evening in a mountainous area of Poonch district close to the line-of-control (LoC), about 250 km north of Jammu, the winter capital of India-controlled Kashmir.
“The [...]

Jammu: The seven-day long Jhiri Mela commenced today with over 90,000 devotees paying their tributes on the first day at Amar Samadhi of Baba Jitto at Shama Chak, about 18-kms from here, in Jammu district.
Lakhs of devotees from within the state and other state visit the annual Mela to pay tribute to a farmer for [...]

Jammu: A girl in a north Kashmir village Sunday allegedly attempted suicide after learning that her pre-paid sim card was not functioning, residents of the village claimed.
According to villagers, Taslima, 23, living in Chattergul village in Ganderbal district, consumed some poisonous substance and had be taken to the hospital in critical condition after she [...]