MANCHESTER: Shamarh Brooks led the West Indies to within sight of avoiding the follow-on in the rain-marred second Test against England at Old Trafford on Sunday. The tourists, already 1-0 up in this three-match series, were 227-4 at tea on the fourth day, needing just 43 more runs to make England bat again in Manchester. […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration Sunday issued a clarification on its decision to notify certain places in the union territory as “strategic areas” to facilitate construction by the armed forces. This came after regional parties, including the National Conference (NC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Peoples Conference, Saturday called the government’s move an […]
District Magistrate, Jammu, Sushma Chauhan, today ordered Weekend Lockdown from July 24, 2020 to prevent any further spike in the COVID cases in the district. The order issued by District Magistrate vide powers conferred upon her under section 144 of CrPC read with section 34 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, states that “There shall […]
A man was arrested by police after he allegedly ignored the signal to stop at a security checkpoint in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. “At about 08:40 pm, a police naka party at Beerwah Chowk in Budgam signalled a car bearing Delhi registration number to stop, but the driver ignored the signal and tried […]
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Riyadh, for medical tests due to inflammation of the gallbladder, the kingdom’s Royal Court said Monday in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The statement said the 84-year-old monarch is being tested at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital. The […]
With more than 40,000 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours, India now has 1.11 million infections. As many as 681 casualties were reported in the country, taking the toll to 27,497. There are over 7 lakh recoveries, while nearly 4 lakh are still active cases. This is the first time that India has […]
Moscow: Scores of members of Russia’s business and political elite have been given early access to an experimental vaccine against Covid-19, according to people familiar with the effort, as the country races to be among the first to develop an inoculation. Top executives at companies including aluminum giant United Co. Rusal, as well as billionaire tycoons […]
The Administrative Council (AC), which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu, accorded sanction to the draft Jammu and Kashmir Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2020 under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, which has been recently made applicable to the Union Territory by way of an Adaptation […]
Kashmir Valley on Monday reported three more deaths attributed to COVID-19, taking the fatality count due to the microbe to 249 in J-K. Unnamed official sources told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS), that two of the deaths occurred at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura while another was reported at Shri […]
A paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper allegedly ended his life by shooting himself with his service refile in Panthachowk area of Srinagar on Monday, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Unnamed officials told GNS that constable Biswajit Dutta of CRPF 29 battalion fired upon himself and died on the spot. […]