Srinagar – The curbs on high-speed 3G, 4G Internet services have been extended till March 17 in Jammu and Kashmir. As regards service to pre-paid SIMs card, the service providers have been asked to provide access only after SIMs are “verified as per norms applicable to post-paid connections.” The 2G which is synonymous to slow […]
Cracks are starting to appear in rupee’s defences with new coronavirus cases being reported in India. The rupee slid as much as 0.4% to 73.6 per dollar on Wednesday to become the worst performing Asian currency. India has so far reported 28 positive cases, which includes 15 Italian tourists. The currency had stayed relatively stable […]
RAWALPINDI: Who has been the most self-effacing among all international cricketers of the 21st Century? The answer to this query is probably simple because the majority would definitely cast their votes in favour of former batting great Hashim Amla. After announcing retirement from the international arena last August just weeks following his country’s embarrassing preliminary-round […]
The US launched an airstrike against Taliban fighters to defend Afghan forces on Wednesday, an American military spokesman said, as violence spirals after a string of deadly attacks by the insurgents, throwing the country’s nascent peace process into grave doubt. News of the airstrike in southern Helmand province — the first in 11 days — […]
The order, that was issued without the requisite whitelist of websites, stated that internet access shall be available across the UT of J&K with speed restricted to 2G and “these services shall not be made available on pre-paid sim cards”. The J&K administration on Wednesday removed curbs from social media usage across the Union Territory. […]
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court quashed the detention order of the chief spokesperson for the banned Jamaat-e-Islami Zahid Ali. The orders in this regard were passed today by a single Bench of Justice Tashi Rabstan, which was hearing a habeas corpus petition challenging the detention of Jamaat spokesman under the Public Safety Act. Ali […]
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday said 28 positive cases of coronavirus have been detected so far in India and announced that all international flights and passengers will now have to undergo screening, and not just the 12 countries listed earlier. Addressing the media, Vardhan said if the Iranian government lent its support, […]
Cisco has refuted the media reports claiming that it is helping the Jammu and Kashmir administration build a firewall to block social media access in the Valley. Recent media reports claimed that the San Jose, California-based company was in a collaboration with the administration to prevent Internet users in Kashmir from accessing blacklisted websites and […]
Srinagar : A 22-year-old youth found hanging in forest area of Zurhama in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district in Wednesday. A police officer said that some locals informed the police about the body hanging from a tree at Zurhama area. Immediately a police team reached the spot and recovered the body of the youth. He identified […]
Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omer Abdullah is presently under detention and his sister has challenged the detention after the authorities slapped him with PSA recently. His sister went to Supreme Court and pleaded that her brother should be brought in person to the court and released as the grounds of detention mentioned […]