Ramallah: At least nine Palestinians have been killed and scores wounded in an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The ministry said on Wednesday that at least 102 people were injured, many of them hit by live ammunition, and listed the condition of six […]
New Delhi: Many students struggle with the pressure that the current education system puts on them, which has prompted the government to try and “remove fear from the minds of children” by redesigning the curriculum from the foundational stage, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday. Without directly referring to the recent cases of […]
An unidentified man was grievously injured after being hit by a moving train on Budgam-Srinagar section on Thursday, officials said. An official said that the ma was hit by the train this morning, resulting in injuries to him. He said he was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment, where his condition is said […]
A residential house and some shops were damaged on Thursday after a landslide occurred in Noorabad area of Damhal Hanjipora in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An official said that landslide took place at Shalmachi Yarikhah in Noorabad in which almost 3-5 shops belonging to Fayaz Ahmad Hajam and Abdul Majeed Hajam got damaged. “A house […]
An elderly man died after getting hit by a moving train along the Budgam-Srinagar railway section this morning, officials said. They said that a man, presumably in his fifties, was hit by train number 04614. The injured person was immediately evacuated from the spot to the hospital, where he succumbed shortly after, they further said. […]
Forests are playing an important role in the climate change scenario and for this purpose the government of Jammu and Kashmir is trying to do forest management with the latest technology available. Recently LG Manoj Sinha inaugurated a Forest Resource Management center in Jammu and asked the officials to use the technology in forest […]
New Delhi: Noting that he belongs to a family of bureaucrats and that the political opportunity as a union minister came as a bolt from the blue in 2019, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that his father Dr K Subrahmanyam was removed as Secretary, Defence Production, by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi […]
MELBOURNE: Australia opener David Warner has been ruled out of the rest of the India Test series after suffering a concussion and a fracture in his elbow in the second match in New Delhi, the team said on Tuesday. Warner is the latest of the Australian squad to head home from the subcontinent, with paceman […]
COLOMBO: Bankrupt Sri Lanka is set to postpone local elections due next month, according to a top official, prompting opposition protests on Tuesday that forced parliament to be adjourned. The March 9 vote was meant to be a key test of support for President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office in July after months of protests […]
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered transfer and posting of 50 senior police officers in the Union Territory. According to an order, Swarn Singh Kotwal, SSP, Security, Jammu, is transferred and posted as Commandant, SDRF 15 Bn. Srinagar, against an available vacancy. The order states Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Commandant, IR-13TM Bn is transferred […]