President Donald Trump said he won’t renegotiate his so-called “phase one” trade deal with China, despite the country falling short on agreements to purchase additional U.S. exports. “We’re not going to renegotiate,” he said in an interview with Fox Business Network broadcast Thursday. While Chinese purchases of U.S. agricultural goods have recently picked up, the […]
Japan’s prime minister on Thursday lifted for most of the country a state of emergency imposed to tackle the coronavirus, but kept it in place for Tokyo and Osaka. “Today we decided to lift the state of emergency in 39 (out of 47) prefectures,” Shinzo Abe said in a nationally televised news conference. HT
District Development Commissioner, Shopian Choudhary Mohammad Yasin today tours block Harman Shopian in order to resume works being done under MGNREGA and others schemes to boost rural economy in spite of lockdown period so that people of the area can get benefited by these schemes and the District Administration is always on forefront and hope […]
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura on Thursday termed youth’s killing at Budgam by CRPF as deeply excruciating and totally reprehensible, stating that the firsthand account narrated by the victim’s uncle has turned CRPF’s statement on the said incident ruthlessly incredulous. According to statement issued to KNS, He said that the […]
Authorities on Thursday discharged thirty Covid-19 suspects from quarantine establishment in Chrar area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), warm send off was given to at least thirty Covid-19 suspected persons who were quarantined in Model Degree College Zaloosa Chrar-e-Shareef soon after ten positive cases were reported back to back […]
The delay of the Government to open the Mughal road is creating problems for the traders and people alike who can use it as alternate route when existing Srinagar-Jammu highway shuts due to landslides. The 84-kilometre road remains closed for almost six months a year due to snow. The Mughal road used to reopen in […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a Rs 3.16 lakh crore package of free foodgrains for migrant workers, concessional credit to farmers and working capital loan for street vendors as part of the second tranche of fiscal stimulus to heal an economy hit hard by coronavirus lockdown. At a news conference, Sitharaman said 8 […]
Srinagar, May 14, KNT: 13 more patients after recovering from Covid-19 infection have been discharged from JVC SKIMS Bemina today. Principal, JVC SKIMS Bemina, Dr Reyaz Untoo told KNT that out these 13 patients, 8 are from Bandipora, 4 from Budgam and one is from Baramulla. He said that JVC SKIMS Bemina has highest recovery […]
On May 11, the Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking the restoration of 4G internet services in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The plea was premised on the rights violations caused by suspending the internet during a pandemic and national lockdown, including the rights to health, education, freedom of speech, freedom of trade and access […]
Srinagar: The Delimitation Commission set up by the Narendra Modi government to redraw parliamentary and assembly constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir has left the National Conference (NC) in a bind over whether it should participate in the exercise or not. The government had on 6 March constituted the commission, to be headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana […]