A 55-year-old man on Thursday died at a hospital in Srinagar, a week after he was injured in shelling along Line of Control in Kupwara district. Unnamed official sources told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS) that the man, Mahommad Yakoob Mir, 55, son of Barkatullah Mir of Kachatiya Baghbeela Tanghdar succumbed to […]
New Delhi: As Covid-19 cases are rising everyday in India, something very striking is happening in our neighbourhood in Pakistan, which seems to have flattened the curve, that too with one of the lowest testing rates in the world. According to data from Worldometer, at the peak of its Covid-19 curve on 14 June, Pakistan reported 6,825 new cases. On […]
Parts of Uttarakhand have been lashed by heavy rainfall and as a result, the water level in various rivers have gone up. According to the India Meteorological Department, the state is very likely to receive heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in the coming 2-3 days. Besides the IMD, various other agencies have […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a platform which will honour the honest taxpayers of the country. The unveiling will take place at 11 am today via video conferencing. The “Transparent Taxation – Honoring The Honest” platform will initiate major tax reforms aimed at bringing transparency in income tax systems and empowering taxpayers, according to […]
India’s ambassador to Beijing, Vikram Misri, reached out Wednesday to a key interlocutor in the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee to try and make headway in talks on resolving the crisis along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh where the standoff between troops of the two countries enters its 100th day Thursday. Misri met Liu Jianchao, […]
Lt Governor Sinha launches Coffee Table Books of UT, Departments and Districts Felicitates COVID Warriors; National Level Awardee Sarpanches & ULB Representatives Pays tributes to Martyrs who sacrificed their lives while upholding the democratic values Unprecedented acceleration of developmental works and projects in J&K in last two years;empowering institutions of local self-government Come together to […]
Mohammad Hafeez will have to self isolate for five days after he was found guilty of breaching the biosecurity protocols imposed by England and Wales Cricket Board and the ICC amid the ongoing away series. Hafeez, who is not a part of the Test squad, and has travelled to the UK for the limited-overs leg, tweeted […]
The police on Wednesday said it has received a complaint from a news magazine that three of its journalists, including a woman, were assaulted by a mob in Northeast Delhi, where they had gone to report on the riots that had taken place in February this year. The Caravan magazine alleged that the incident took […]
New Delhi: The Army is grappling with creating adequate infrastructure, at short notice, for the 30,000 additional troops it has deployed at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh following the stand-off with Chinese forces. With the stand-off still at a stalemate, despite multiple rounds of military talks at different levels, the soldiers will have […]
Amnesty International seeks independent investigation into Shopian disappearance case independent and transparent. Responding to the reports of the Indian army authorities inquiring into the alleged extrajudicial execution of three labourers by its troops on 18 July 2020 in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, Avinash Kumar, Executive Director of Amnesty International India said: “Amnesty […]