Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) supremo Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said that Jammu and Kashmir should act as a bridge of peace between India, Pakistan and China. Speaking to reporters, the former J&K chief minister said that the PDP’s agenda has always been that J&K acts as a ‘bridge of peace’ between India and its neighbouring […]
SRINAGAR: A Government School Headmaster, one of the accused in a rice scandal who was evading arrest has been arrested by police in Sumbal area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Pertinently, 61 bags of rice meant for mid-day meals at Middle School Sumbal were recovered from a Tata-Mobile vehicle by Sumbal police in the premises of […]
Srinagar: People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration on Tuesday rejected the assurance by J&K government’s spokesman regarding new land laws allowed buying of the land in J&K by outsiders for the first time in decades, calling it a “bizarre attempt to, distort facts, weave lies and mislead people.” The government’s official spokesperson, Rohit Kansal had on […]
The rupee on Tuesday settled almost flat at 74.41 against the US dollar after its initial gains were erased despite strong equity markets. Despite the early bounce, the home unit appeared to struggle, even as the dollar remained broadly weak. The rupee opened sharply higher at 74.34 amid heavy buying in local stock markets. The […]
Tuesday’s presidential elections in the US are expected to be the most contentious in American history. No modern Presidential elections in the US have been held in such circumstances. The 2020 election is taking place bang in the middle of a pandemic, with over 80,000 new cases the highest in recent times, reported on Sunday. As […]
The number of new coronavirus cases reported in India in a span of 24 hours dropped below 40,000, taking the country’s COVID-19 tally to 82.67 lakh, while the total recoveries crossed the 76 lakh-mark, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Tuesday. India’s COVID-19 caseload mounted to 82,67,623 with 38,310 fresh infections, while the death […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah’s plea challenging its circular of April mandating that both parties in a case have to agree for the final hearing to be taken up early via video conferencing mode. Omar had contended that his matrimonial appeal against a 2016 trial […]
Skipper Virat Kohli says Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen can be more “brave with the bat” as his team earned qualification to the Indian Premier League playoffs. RCB slumped to their fourth defeat on the trot after losing to Delhi Capitals by six wickets on Monday but still made the cut, courtesy their net run rate. […]
Hundreds of police fanned out across Vienna on Tuesday, searching for perpetrators of attacks that left five people dead in the city’s centre, after what a government minister said was an “Islamist terrorist” incident. In an early morning televised news conference, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer repeated calls for the public to stay off the […]
Strongly hitting out at Pakistan, India has said it is taking advantage of the Corona pandemic to enhance support to cross-border terrorism and has resorted to unbridled hate speech” to try and create divisions among India’s religious communities. Addressing an interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related […]