KUNDUZ: Dozens of Taliban fighters stormed three check posts in pre-dawn raids in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least eight security personnel, in the latest attack on government forces ahead of expected peace talks. It comes after authorities this week accused the Taliban of increasing attacks on Afghan forces at a time when both […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday launched the ”One Nation One Ration Card” scheme at two fair shops on a pilot basis, a spokesperson said. Advisor to J&K Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan launched the scheme at the fair price shops in Bhagwati Nagar area of Jammu, the spokesperson said. Mr Khan said under ”One […]
Karachi: Former Pakistan captain Mohammed Hafeez has tested negative for COVID-19, a day after the PCB found him positive for the deadly virus. Hafeez and Wahab Riaz are among the 10 England-bound Pakistan players, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The team is due to leave for England on Sunday for a Test and T20 […]
Srinagar, June 24, KNT: The family of missing Phd Scholar yet again today staged a protest seeking his whereabouts. The protesters mostly women said that they are sure that Basit Hilal as is being claimed by police has not joined militancy. Basit Hilal who had gone along with his friends in Naranag area of […]
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) man, who was posted in Qazigund area of Kulgam district, allegedly died due to brain haemorrhage in SKIMS Soura, officials said. A police official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) GD Sanatan Singh of 163 Battalion CRPF fell unconscious two days ago at […]
Army Chief Gen MM Naravane, who landed in Leh on Tuesday within a couple of hours of the reports that India and China had reached an agreement for the peaceful disengagement on the LAC, started assessment of the standoff situation and the talks from the word go. General Naravane’s two-day visit is essentially focused […]
London: Boris Johnson has launched the biggest gamble of his premiership, announcing that July will see a dramatic lifting of the lockdown measures imposed in England in March. The goal is to save the economy. The risk is that it causes a second spike in coronavirus infections. At a news conference on Tuesday evening — the […]
While a “mutual consensus to disengage” from “all friction areas” along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) was reached during a meeting between Indian and Chinese commanders on Monday, it is the restoration of status quo ante in the Finger Area on the north bank of Ladakh’s Pangong Tso lake that will determine the success […]
Srinagar: A 48-year-old covid-19 positive woman died at a hospital here on Wednesday, taking the number of the people succumbing to the virus so far in Jammu and Kashmir to 88. A resident of bahar Barzulla Srinagar, the woman was a known case of CML (chronic myelogenous leukemia ) with Bone marrow transplant with Fungal […]
THE INDIAN Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Tuesday revised its Covid-19 testing strategy to include “all symptomatic individuals in every part of the country”. The strategy, as of May 18, advised testing symptomatic individuals, but restricted it to those in hospitals, containment zones and hotspots, contacts of a confirmed Covid-19 case, healthcare and frontline workers, and those […]