Talks between Indian and Chinese diplomats Thursday could not achieve a breakthrough to resolve the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, and New Delhi said the two sides will “continue to sincerely work towards complete disengagement” of troops. This was the fourth meeting via videoconference of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on […]
Two days after the Baramulla attack in which five security personnel died, militants on Friday released a video of the assault on social media, which police dubbed as an attempt to glamorise militancy. In the video purportedly shot by one the militants who was part of the attack, he is seen firing at the security […]
Kangan: A two storey residential house was gutted in a fire mishap in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday. The house, as per local sources, belonged to Mohammad Aslam Baba son of Ghulam Mohi u Din Baba of Kullan Gund village of the district. The sources said that the […]
Russia is looking for a partnership with India for producing COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced that his country has developed the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19, which works “quite effectively” and forms a “stable immunity” against the disease. Sputnik […]
Fraught ties with India, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and the Covid-19 pandemic will likely be key topics of discussion at a strategic dialogue between Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi and Pakistani counterpart, Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the sunny south China province of Hainan on Thursday and Friday. The Chinese foreign ministry on Thursday formally […]
New Delhi: Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech may add another arm to its ongoing clinical trial of indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, where volunteers will be administered the vaccination through a different method. The company is working on the Covid-19 vaccine project along with the country’s top health research body, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Bharat Biotech is […]
Srinagar: National Conference(NC) patron Farooq Abdullah has started consultation with party leadership to chalk out future strategy regarding various issues after the abrogation of the special status of J-K. Dr Abdullah on Thursday held a meeting with four of the senior party leaders who were detained post the 5 August decision last year. Dr Abdullah […]
New Delhi: The Chinese military is reportedly constructing a surface-to-air missile site as well as other infrastructure on the banks of the Mansarovar Lake in the India-Nepal-China tri-junction area near the Lipulekh pass, new satellite images have indicated. An image shared by an anonymous satellite imagery analyst, who goes by the Twitter handle @detresfa_, is understood to […]
National Conference Provincial President Mr Devender Singh Rana today assailed the BJP for compromising with the honour, pride and aspirations of Jammu, saying all tall promises proved hoax with the people finding themselves downgraded as secondary class citizens in the two Union Territories. “What happened to promised statehood for Jammu, which the people were assured […]
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will deploy AI-driven robot cooks, eschew luxury cooking, cut down on deep-fried dishes and oily diets to reduce food wastage and introduce frugality in food habits of soldiers and officers, a state media report said on Thursday. These measures and the introduction of advanced cooking techniques including “high-energy saving stoves” […]