The Supreme Court Tuesday granted another opportunity to activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan, convicted for contempt, to ‘think over’ his stand of not expressing regret over his tweets against the judiciary. The top court granted Bhushan 30 minutes to reconsider his stand after Attorney General K K Venugopal sought forgiveness for the activist-lawyer. “He (Bhushan) should withdraw […]
SunRisers Hyderabad’s batting mentor VVS Laxman is confident the quality of cricket will not suffer even if the matches of the upcoming IPL are played in front of empty stands owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moved out of India due to the health crisis, the 13th edition of the world’s biggest T20 league will be […]
WASHINGTON: Police shot a black man in the back multiple times in the US city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, as his three sons watched on Sunday, his family’s lawyer said, sparking a night of unrest during which protesters hurled firebombs and bricks at law enforcement officers. The victim, 29-year-old Jacob Blake, was taken to a hospital […]
New Delhi: After three Valley districts showed an unusual spike in cases over the last few days, a central team is due to visit Kashmir later this week to analyse the reasons for the increase and help the respective district administrations deal with the situation, ThePrint has learnt. Niti Aayog member (health) Dr V.K. Paul and […]
The Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department has failed to complete the leftover 42 per cent Aadhaar enrolment of students and teachers at government-run-schools that was supposed to be completed by January-2020, reported Kashmir News Observer (KNO). In the previous academic year, the School Education Department had said that the Aadhaar enrolment of leftover students […]
A woman was killed, while her two family members couldn’t be immediately traced after a landslide hit Khour area of Mahore sub-division in Reasi district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). An unnamed official told the agency that three persons were buried under the debris after a landslide hit Khour area on […]
A 95-year-old man from Srinagar and a paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force trooper were among seven persons who died due to COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir since overnight, taking the fatality count to 640 in J-K. Among the casualties, six were from Kashmir Valley while one, a 53-year-old from Bakshi Nagar Jammu who was admitted […]
Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked on Tuesday after fresh landslides in Batote area of Ramban district. An official said that the highway was blocked after rains triggered landslides around 5am today in Dalwas area. He said that a portion of the highway was damaged due to the landslide. DSPT NHW Ramban, Ajay Anand said the […]
Even as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has hailed the continuation of Sonia Gandhi as the party chief, his loyalists in Jammu and Kashmir have adopted a “wait-and-watch” approach. “As of now, we are watching developments in the CWC meeting and will not take any decision in a […]
Following a marathon seven-hour meeting, the Congress Working Committee on Monday decided that Sonia Gandhi would remain party’s interim president for now. A new chief will be elected within the next 6 months. It was also decided that a committee would be set up to assist Sonia Gandhi to look into the issues raised in the letter by […]