A top Democratic Senator has alleged that the Trump administration’s expenditure of more than USD200 million to donate ventilators during Covid-19 pandemic is allegedly favouring countries personally selected by the US President. Among the countries that have been provided the life-saving machines are Russia, India, and South Africa, said Senator Robert Menendez, Ranking Member of […]
Tral, June 26 : The encounter that had ensued at Tral yesterday has ended with the killing of all three militans. The gunbattle between militants and government forces in Chewa Ullar area of Tral in South kashmir’s Pulwama district was halted for night on Thursday evening. correspondent from Tral reported that all the three militant […]
The old mechanism of maintaining peace and tranquillity along the India-China border has broken down. The latest blood-letting in the Galwan Valley, which ironically took place while the disengagement process was on, is a stark reminder that the old methods can no longer work. Five bilateral agreements signed between India and China in 1993, 1996, […]
In a written complaint addressed to the SHO of Gandhi Nagar Police Station in Jammu district, Inspector General-rank IPS officer Basant Rath on Wednesday urged the officer to “take note of my apprehensions about my life, liberty and bald head”. In an unusual case for Jammu and Kashmir Police, it has received a complaint from […]
A day after Indian and Chinese diplomats agreed to “sincerely implement the understanding on disengagement and de-escalation” along the Line of Actual Control, New Delhi drew the red line Thursday, saying “continuation of the current situation would only vitiate the atmosphere for the development of the relationship” between the two countries. Amid reports of satellite images showing Chinese structures […]
JAMMU, JUNE 25: Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production Department, Navin K.Choudhary, today chaired a meeting to review progress on saturation of Kissan Credit Cards (KCC) to all eligible farmers under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan. Principal Secretary stressed the need for empowering farmers by financial inclusion, extending easy and affordable credit facilities through KCC. “Joint initiatives of […]
Just a day after the United States called out Pakistan as one of the “safe havens”, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday called al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a ‘shaheed’ or martyr. PM Khan was speaking in the national assembly, elaborating how Pakistan has been humiliated across the world despite having sacrificed lives in the […]
JAMMU, JUNE 25 (KNS): The Government on Thursday informed that 127 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 14 from Jammu division and 113 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 6549. Also, 02 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 01 from […]
Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday recorded third death due to COVID-19 as an 65-year-old woman from central Kashmir’s Budgam became fresh victim. Medical Superintendent SKIMS Professor Farooq Jan told Kashmir Despatch, One COVID-19 positive patient 65 year old woman Of NasrullahPora Budgam expired on 25/6/20 At 05:20 pm with cause of death being cardiopulmonary arrest. […]
Holding Beijing responsible for the violent faceoff in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Thursday said that China has been amassing a large contingent of troops and armaments along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since early May and that the conduct of Chinese forces has been in “complete disregard of […]