SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 01: Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Food Processing Industries, Prahlad Singh Patel today held a review meeting of Jal Shakti Department, J&K here to discuss physical and financial achievements. At the outset, Mission Director Jal Jeevan Mission, Syed Abid Rasheed Shah informed the Minister the progress made under Jal Jeevan […]
Government forces on Wednesday claimed to have recovered a cache of ammunition during search operation in forest area of Sarda-Bagh in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. A police official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that Special Operation Group (SOG) and CRPF 118 Bn launched a search operation in Sarda-Bagh forests and recovered cache of […]
Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday said that the administration led by him was mulling to re-open all colleges and universities in Kashmir after vaccinating students above 18-years of age. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at SKICC on the banks of famous Dal Lake here, LG Sinha said that […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the United States’ 20-year campaign in Afghanistan ended in “only tragedies, only losses”. The Russian leader has a track record of criticising Western countries for trying to impose their values on non-Western nations. Moscow has regularly slammed the US policy in Afghanistan, which is now controlled by […]
New Delhi: With 41,965 people testing positive for COVID-19, India’s total tally of cases rose to 3,28,10,845, while active cases have increased to 3,78,181, according to Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll has climbed to 4,39,020 with 460 more fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. […]
By: Musaib Iqbal MK Srinagar While the latest demand from the united political forces in both Leh and Kargil is the statehood for the Ladakh, the government has declared snow leopard as state animal and black-necked crane as state bird for the Union Territory. A notification in this regard was issued by the UT’s Forest, […]
After remaining suspended for nearly 17 months due to COVID-19, Air India’s Indore-Dubai flight resumed its operations on Wednesday. The flight operations were stopped in March last year, following COVID-19 wave. The programme organised to resume the flight operation at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport in Indore was virtually attended by Union Civil Aviation Minister […]
TOKYO: After a dramatic evacuation from Taliban-held Kabul and a secret operation to fly him to Tokyo, Afghan Paralympian Hossain Rasouli beat the odds on Tuesday to compete in the long jump. It was not the event he had been expecting to contest, after qualifying for the 100m T47, but then just about everything in […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Tuesday rejected criticism of his decision to stick to a deadline to pull out of Afghanistan this week, a move that left 100 to 200 Americans in the country along with thousands of US-aligned Afghan citizens. In a televised address from the White House state dining room, Biden criticised the […]
After a hiatus of over five months due to COVID-19, schools and colleges reopened in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. The schools opened for classes 9th to 12th, while offline classes for colleges also commenced in the state. In March this year with spike in COVID-19 cases, the government had ordered closure of schools. On Wednesday, […]