The editor of a south Kashmir based news portal, The Kashmiriyat, was summoned by Jammu and Kashmir police’s cyber cell in Srinagar on Friday for “unknown reasons.” In a statement, the Kashmiriyat said that Qazi Shibli “got a call from the Cyber Police station at around 2:15 PM on Thursday asking him to present himself” in the Cyber Police […]
India recorded more than 50,000 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, for the second day in a row, pushing its infection tally to more than 1.63 million, according to the Union health ministry data. According to health ministry data, India has added 1,053,377 cases since July 1—702,689 have been […]
China’s territorial claims in Bhutan and the recent incursion into Indian land are indicative of their intentions, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday, adding that Beijing under Preisdent Xi Jinping was trying to find out whether other countries are going to push back. Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a […]
Srinagar: Seven more deaths were reported in Jammu and Kashmir due to COVID-19 since last evening, taking the toll to 373, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Four of the victims were from Srinagar, two from Pulwama while one, a 56-year-old, was from Jammu’s Shakti Shakti Nagar. All of the deaths from Srinagar […]
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday indicated that he will seek a confidence vote when the assembly convenes next fortnight and claimed that the money offered to the MLAs to switch sides had increased sharply ahead of the session. “The floor test will happen; we are going to the assembly. The BAC decides this,” […]
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Thursday alleged that the government has “deliberately” chosen August 5 as the date of the bhoomi pujan ceremony for the Ram temple at Ayodhya as the “demolition” of Jammu and Kashmir and the rebuilding of the temple are both “core agendas of Hindutva forces”. Last year on August 5, the abrogation of […]
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has said it has had “good data so far” on its vaccine for Covid-19, developed in partnership with the University of Oxford, which is already in large-scale human trials. There are no approved vaccines for the illness caused by Sar-Cov-2 but AstraZeneca’s vaccine is being widely considered the leading candidate after results […]
Within hours of the Chinese Defence Ministry claiming that troops on both sides were gradually disengaging and the situation was moving towards de-escalation along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, sources in the Indian Army said there has been no positive movement on the ground for more than two weeks now. The standoff at Pangong Tso and Patrolling Point 17A […]
Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu and officers and the staff of the Raj Bhavan, accorded a warm send off to Sh. Rajnish Pran, who has served as Director, Special Security Force (SSF) at the Lt Governor’s Secretariat. The Lt Governor appreciated the conduct of the officer with which he performed his duties to oversee the […]
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Thursday condemned the police action against veteran Congress leader and former union minister Prof. Saif-ud-Din Soz. In a statement issued here, Bukhari termed the restrictions on Prof. Soz as unwarranted and uncalled for when the J&K administration informed the Supreme Court that Mr. […]