New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the lockdown was not an attack on coronavirus but on the poor people and proved to be a “death sentence” for the unorganised sector as it “finished” jobs and small businesses. Everyone should stand against the attack, he said. “The lockdown was not an attack on corona. […]
An elderly woman from North Kashmir’s Sopore town Wednesday appealed government to help her from the ‘wrath’ of her husband and sons. Bakhti Baigum (65) emerged here in Press Enclave Srinagar claiming that her husband Muhammad Sultan Ganaie has forcibly dragged her out from the house. She said even her sons are not allowing her […]
Burglars broke into four shops in KP road area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag town and decamped with cash and accessories. The shopkeepers told KNT that they found the locks of their shops broken in the morning and cash missing. The burglary incident has taken place during the intervening night of Sep 8 and 9. The […]
Apni Party vice president Zaffar Iqbal Manhas on Wednesday regretted the developmental deficit in urban as well as rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir. He stressed on an immediate need for initiation of a democratic process that can remove the major obstacles in rural-urban socio-economic empowerment. Addressing a meeting of prominent workers of Shopian district […]
Reliance Industries Ltd’s new oil-to-chemical business unit will hold its oil refinery and petrochemical assets and retail fuel business but not upstream oil and gas producing fields such as KG-D6 and textiles business, the firm said detailing hiving-off plans. RIL has started work on hiving off the oil-to-chemical (O2C) business into a separate unit for […]
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday left for Dubai to oversee preparations for a bio-secure IPL beginning on September 19. Defending champions Mumbai Indians will face Chennai Super Kings in the opening match of the T20 event, which has been moved to the UAE due to the rising COVID-19 cases in India. “My first flight […]
With 89,706 infections being reported in a day, India’s COVID-19 tally went past 43 lakh, while 33,98,844 people have recuperated from the disease so far pushing the national recovery rate to 77.77 per cent on Wednesday, according to data shared by the Union Health Ministry. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 43,70,128, while the death […]
A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted First Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning, but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said. The blast killed at least four people and wounded 16, a health ministry spokesman said, including some of Saleh’s bodyguards. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which comes just […]
It is becoming an issue in the entire Jammu and Kashmir how authorities have been able to issue 12.5 lakh domiciles in such a short duration of time amid pandemic. While politicians have demanded a white paper over the issuance of domicile certificates in Jammu and Kashmir so far, administration in order to keep the […]
A 35-year-old man was critically injured after being attacked by the bear in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday morning. An official identified the man as Farooq Ahmad Gojjer alias Momin Khan son of Rahemulla Gojjar a resident of Cherwan village in Ajas town of the district. The official said Ahmad was outside his home […]