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Policy, weather, infrastructure, and civic intel shaped for young Jammu.
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The NOC-cutting reform we covered as an ordinance in August has cleared Cabinet as a Bill, and goes to the Assembly session beginning 21 September in Srinagar.
The Housing and Urban Development Department has cleared a parking complex at Parade and a multilevel car park at SMGS. Under the 2026 rules, neither will take cash.
A 10 September MoU makes DH Reasi an associated hospital of GMC Jammu — monthly super-speciality clinics for patients, and district residency postings for students.
The J&K Cabinet has approved an elevated corridor running over Bakshi Nagar Market and Maheshpura Rotary. Five years — if the money arrives on schedule.
A University of Jammu-led study maps 12,062 sq km of J&K as highly landslide-prone — and finds proximity to roads, not slope, is the single strongest predictor.
After eight days of stopped work, interns at GMC Jammu suspended their strike on 8 September following an assurance that the stipend question would be settled in a month.
The Meteorological Centre expects a largely dry fortnight for Jammu division, but is warning of gusty winds up to 60 kmph this evening. Here's the day-by-day breakdown.
Three Jammu wards — Greater Kailash, New Plot and Bhagwati Nagar — won every population category in the Centre's ward-level clean-air awards. Here's what the award actually measures, and what the city's own air data still says.
A 2 kW rooftop system in J&K benchmarks at about ₹1.10 lakh, of which ₹72,000 is subsidy. Here is what the scheme actually pays, and what it leaves you to find.
The Union Home Ministry has cleared armed CISF deployment for AIIMS Jammu in Vijaypur, Samba — making it the first medical institute in India protected by the paramilitary force due to its strategic border-adjacent location.
Three years before you can move, five years maximum in one school, one transfer drive a year. The draft rulebook for J&K's regularised RReT teachers is open for public objections.
J&K's new electricity tariffs took effect September 1. Set against Delhi's and Mumbai's own slabs, Jammu's base rate still comes out lower — though the comparison isn't as clean as it sounds.
MBBS and BDS interns across J&K have been on strike for a week over a stipend frozen since roughly 2020. Here's what they're asking for, why the delay, and where the political consensus actually sits.
J&K has been declared a fully literate union territory under ULLAS. The number is real — and it measures something more specific than most people assume.
The document that decides where Jammu can build has been stuck for years. On September 3 the JDA board took up its revision again. Here is the whole timeline.
A draft EV policy and a separate siting review both landed this week: 3% off your loan, a winter battery test protocol, and 17 charging points cleared for Jammu district alone.
A 31 August order rewrites who qualifies for J&K's cancer assistance fund and how it pays. If you are the person in your family who handles the paperwork, read this.
From the autumn session, every question, bill and reply in J&K's Legislative Assembly moves onto one digital portal — a Rs 16 crore, centrally funded system already used in more than half of India's states.
In a single order, J&K's General Administration Department reshuffled 136 officers across departments from health to revenue to taxation — effective immediately from September 1.
JMC’s Miyawaki plantation at Bhagwati Nagar turns a former legacy-waste site into the start of a green public-space project beside the Tawi.
Four Janmashtami Shobha Yatras will move through Jammu on September 3 from 3 PM onwards. Here are the affected corridors, diversions and the traffic-control number to save.
A Chief Secretary-led panel has cleared KRIPA, a pilgrimage-amenities project for Katra. Here is what the money buys, and why it matters if you work the Katra economy.
A UT committee has cleared TARANG, a ₹1,567.91-crore Tawi regeneration project. Only ₹614 crore of it is government money — the rest is PPP and market financing.
The self-enumeration window has closed and door-to-door counting has begun in J&K's snow-bound areas. Here is who gets counted this month, and who waits for 2027.
The High Court has called JMC's safety affidavit deficient and ordered a full count of every coaching institute surveyed, with fire and occupancy records. Here's what that means for the room you study in.
The Food & Drugs Administration's latest enforcement round covered Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Udhampur, Reasi and Doda. The numbers, what they mean when you eat out — and the helpline nobody uses.
A ₹1,503.53 crore batch of rural roads has been sanctioned across Kathua, Udhampur, Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar. Here is the district-wise split and who it reaches.
The 260th home affairs report says enrolment in J&K roughly halves between Class 1 and Class 12, and asks for a dedicated Secondary School Retention Programme.
A government committee has mapped 531 glacial lakes across J&K and put 14 on a high-risk watch list. Kishtwar alone holds more than a third of them.
Jammu Smart City signed an agreement on August 27 to add 25 more e-buses to the city's 100. If the remaining 75 follow, Jammu ends up with roughly 200.
The Revenue Department says it has digitised and verified nearly 70 lakh land parcels and fixed 13 lakh discrepancies. Here's what a Record of Rights is, and why yours matters at 22.
JERC has cleared an average 6.83% power tariff rise from September 1. Here are the new domestic slabs, what stays free, and what each side is saying.
Jammu recorded 66 mm of rain overnight, flooding a dozen localities and shutting the Jammu-Kishtwar highway. Here's what's affected and what the forecast says.
JERC has cleared an average 6.83% rise from September 1. The new per-unit slabs, a 25% jump in the fixed charge, and J&K's first time-of-day tariff, explained.
A locked treasury reopened in 2025 and stalled again. Twenty years of plans, crores and missed deadlines later, here is the full story of the Dogra palace above the Tawi.
Order 172-JK(HUD) of 2026 sets how Jammu's edges get built out - the splits, thresholds and deadlines behind the city's next housing.
A government order dated 18 August sets up a District Magistrate-chaired task force in every J&K district, meeting fortnightly, to map accident black spots on national highways.
Self-enumeration opened on August 17 for 1,115 villages and three municipalities across 16 J&K districts. It is geo-fenced — and Jammu city is not in it.
J&K has cleared three heritage conservation projects worth ₹18.60 crore. Two of them are inside the Jammu belt — and both are places you can already visit in a day.
Jammu Municipal Corporation has installed dedicated receptacles for flowers and idols at Tawi Bridge, plus a fully solar-run cooling station at the riverfront — small fixes aimed at a river that keeps getting more crowded.