The government hiked customs duties on as many as 19 items, including jet fuel, ACs and refrigerators, effective midnight as it aims to curb imports of non-essential goods.   Total import bill on account of shipment of these items into the country last fiscal was Rs 86,000 crore, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.   The other items include washing machines, speakers, radial car tyres, jewellery items, kitchen and tableware, certain plastic goods, and suitcases.   “The central government has taken tariff measures, by way of increase in the ... Read More

While upholding the constitutional validity of Aadhaar scheme, the Supreme Court has ruled that Aadhaar Act doesn’t violate your right to privacy when you agree to share biometric data. Private entities have been barred from using Aadhaar card for KYC authentication purposes but you will still need Aadhaar for various other purposes including PAN card and ITR filing. The government has welcomed the Supreme Court ruling with finance minister Arun Jaitley saying that the use of Aadhaar has helped the government save Rs 90,000 crore in a year through targeting of beneficiaries and pluggi ... Read More

District Election Officer Angrez Singh Rana today suspended a Junior Engineer for indulging in political activities.   As per district administration, the Junior Engineer in  R&B department Div Kishtwar Raj Kumar Badyal was suspended after a video of him delivering political speech was circulated in social media groups.   The erring Jr Engineer was placed under suspension with immediate effect and attached to the office of Chief Engineer R&B Jammu.   Meanwhile, Imam Din Additional District Development Commissioner has been appointed as inq ... Read More

The Motor Vehicle department has challaned sixty four vehicles and suspended 5 licences for violation of Motor Vehicles Act rules in the past five days.    As per ARTO Kishtwar Abhay Indu Sharma, the    offences mainly included overloading, drunk driving, rash driving and offences related to driving licences.   Of these 46 vehicles were challaned, 12 vehicles compounded on the spot and 6  were seized. ... Read More

Jammu Kashmir government on Wednesday approved to implement 7th Pay commission in favour of SSA teachers who were on path of agitation from a monthly now.   There are about 41,000 teachers under RMSA and SSA and who will get the benefit of 7th pay commission conveyed by Advisor to Governor, Mr. Ganai here on Wednesday in Jammu.   This was decided during a meeting which was chaired by the Governor S P Malik. In the meeting, it was approved that the SSA teachers will get the salary as per 7th pay commission from the current month.   Director school Educa ... Read More

At the WWDC 2018 keynote, few iOS 12 features got major announcements. However, there was a bunch of features which did not grab the limelight and we discovered them for you thinking it was worth sharing. 1 SMS OTP auto-fill If you get an OTP via SMS, iOS will now show an auto-fill prompt to quickly paste it in browsers or apps. Users of Android have had this feature for a while now. On Android, every app implementing OTP auto-fill can read every single one of your messages. However, on iOS, the operating system prompts you to paste an OTP and the app can’t read your messages. ... Read More