A 70-year-old man from central Kashmir’s Budgam district become another victim of covid-19, fourth since last night and 469th so far in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. They said that the septuagenarian was battling cancer and had been operated recently. “He had metastasis and was admitted to the hospital recently,” a doctor at […]
At least seven people were killed in a fire at a hotel, which is being used as a Covid-19 facility, in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada early on Sunday, news agency ANI reported. “The incident took place around 5am. Around 22 patients are being treated in the hospital. We are evacuating the entire building,” Mohammad Imtiaz, Krishna’s […]
J&K Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam’s remark that “not a single soul cried” over the detention of mainstream political leaders after the abrogation of J&K’s special status has triggered a row, with political leaders across the divide asking why he does not join politics if he is so keen on making political statements. “The […]
The meeting at the level of Major General between Indian and Chinese armies took place Saturday to discuss ways to reduce tensions in the strategically important area of Depsang Plains in northern Ladakh. The meeting, which began in the morning on the Indian side of the Daulat Beg Oldie-Tianwendian Border Meeting Point on the Line of Actual Control, […]
Srinagar: One year has passed since the Centre declared Jammu & Kashmir a Union Territory, but it has been 12 months without any business, and the private sector and tourism are in a shambles. 5August this year was no different from the previous year. Strict lockdown of 48 hours with announcement of curfew in Srinagar kept […]
A gunfight broke out between militants and the security forces in Sighanpor area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday. Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a joint team of Police, army’s 34 RR and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation in Sighanpora on yesterday. As the joint team of forces approached […]
Focused and effective efforts towards containment, testing, isolation and treatment by the Centre, states and Union Territories have resulted in the recovery rate rising to 68.32 per cent and fatality rate steadily declining to 2.04 per cent, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. India has one of the lowest cases per million at 1,469 as […]
Mukesh Ambani has surged past Europe’s wealthiest man, making him the world’s fourth-richest person. Reliance Industries Ltd.’s chairman is now worth $80.6 billion, after amassing $22 billion this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That gives him a bigger wealth pile than France’s Bernard Arnault, whose LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE has suffered […]
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Saturday said the unconstitutional dismissal and detention of Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah in 1953 marked New Delhi’s backtracking of convictions and commitments strengthening the bonds of accession, saying the wide spread alienation in J&K is the ghastly fallout of the New Delhi’s indefensible, and undemocratic measures taken on 9th […]
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference on Saturday lashed out at the Chief Secretary and termed his utterances as delusions of grandeur. In a statement to KNS, party spokesperson Adnan Ashraf Mir said that the Chief Secretary needs to speak within his pay and grade. “Kashmir has this problem where people get delusions of grandeur. It […]