India’s COVID-19 tally raced past the seven lakh-mark with 22,252 fresh infections on Tuesday, five days after crossing the six lakh post, while the death toll climbed to 20,160 as 467 more people succumbed to the disease, according to the Union health ministry. With this, the country has recorded over 20,000 cases of the infection […]
BEIJING: Chinese authorities on Monday detained a law professor who published essays criticising President Xi Jinping over the coronavirus pandemic and accusing him of ruling “tyrannically”, according to friends of the man. Xu Zhangrun, a rare outspoken critic of the government in China’s heavily censored academia, was taken from his home in suburban Beijing by […]
LAHORE: Former Supreme Court judge retired Justice Faqir Mohammad Khokhar, in his capacity as an independent adjudicator, will hear the appeal of discarded Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal against a three-year ban at the National High Performance Centre here on July 13. Notices for the hearing have been issued to Umar and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The […]
Srinagar: General officer Commanding of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lieutenant General BS Raju Tuesday said that the armed forces don’t want to kill militants and that an opportunity to surrender is given to every militants. In a short video uploaded on the official handle of Chinar Corps (15 Corps), Lt General Raju said that any loss […]
Srinagar: The body of a missing driver from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district was found in the river Jhelum at Pampore area on Tuesday. A local news gathering agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that some people while extracting sand from river Jhelum found a body near Patalbagh area of Pampore and accordingly informed police. The […]
Srinagar: A 60-year-old covid-19 patient from Baramulla died at a hospital here, taking the fatality count due to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 141. A resident of Kunzer Baramulla, the patient, a 60-year-old woman, passed away at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the covid-19 management in the Kashmir Valley. Medical […]
Srinagar: One militant as well as an army soldier have been killed in ongoing encounter in Gusso area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. Official sources told GNS that in an ongoing firefight one unidentified militant have been killed. Meanwhile Army soldier and cop of J&K Police were also injured in early exchange of […]
Suspected militants on Monday lobbed a grenade at Police post Delina in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. However, the grenade exploded on the road without causing any casualties, news agency KNO quoted Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Baramulla, Abdul Qayoom, as having said. Soon after the attack, a search operation was launched in the area to […]
Srinagar: Two paramilitary Sashastra Suraksha Bal(SSB) personnel were killed in a fratricidal incident in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Monday evening. Official sources told GNS that there was some altercation among troopers of 49 battalion of the SSB and subsequently the fratricidal killing incident took place in which of two of them got killed. […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 246 covid-19 infections, taking the overall tally of the cases to 8675 in J&K. Officials said that 36 cases were reported from Jammu division while 210 from Kashmir Valley and includes five from paramilitary CRPF, three from police and one from army besides two pregnant women and as […]