India has exported 16.92 lakh tonnes of sugar till January 4 of the ongoing 2022-23 marketing year, including 59,596 tonnes of the sweetener to neighbouring China, trade body AISTA said on Tuesday. Among other neighbouring nations, India has exported 1.47 lakh tonnes of sugar to Bangladesh, and 82,462 tonnes to Sri Lanka during October-January 4 […]
BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the party’s national general secretaries to deliberate on the agenda for its two-day national executive here on January 16-17. Party sources said the leaders took stock of the ongoing organisational and election-related exercises across the country, especially in poll-bound states. The party national executive […]
LAHORE: It seems the chapter of bringing back Mickey Arthur as the national team head coach has closed after both the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the South Africa-born coach could not agree on the terms of the services. “Yes, we had offered Mickey Arthur the assignment of coach, keeping in view his past performances […]
A 19-year-old man accused of attacking three New York City police officers with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s eve — crime investigators have linked to Islamist extremism — was charged in federal court on Tuesday with attempted murder. The four federal charges — all for attempted murder — against Trevor Bickford, 19, […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir University (KU) authorities on Tuesday advertised several administrative positions including the post of Registrar and Director IT. Official said that the decision to advertise these posts was taken after the Vice Chancellor Dr Neelofar Khan passed instructions to immediately advertise these posts so that the same are filled up through proper channel. […]
Drug menace is pleading the society at large and in Jammu and Kashmir a lot of youth are falling victim to this addiction. Government is trying to arrest this drug addiction trend by arresting the drug peddlers and is also trying to reform those who have fallen prey to this menace. Recently DC Srinagar visited […]
As Kashmir valley braces for season’s first major snowfall, the minimum temperature recorded an increase with mercury settling above sub-zero level at most places barring Gulmarg and Pahalgam on Wednesday. Also, the higher reaches received fresh snowfall with Gulmarg receiving 6 cms of it in the 24 hours till 8:30 am today, a meteorological department […]
A Junior Comissioned Officer(JCO) and two soldiers were killed after they slipped into a deep gorge in Machil sector alongh Line of Control in Kupwara district of North Kashmir on Wednesday. ” During a regular op task in forward area, a party of 01 JCO & 02 OR slipped into a deep gorge, when snow […]
SYDNEY: Australia captain Pat Cummins believes his side have as good a chance of winning a Test series in India as they will ever have when they play four matches on the sub-continent in February-March. Cummins was brimming with confidence after winning four out of five Tests in a dominant home summer, which concluded with […]
Countries should consider recommending passengers wear masks on long-haul flights to counter the latest Omicron subvariant of Covid-19 given its rapid spread in the United States, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials said on Tuesday. In Europe, the XBB.1.5 subvariant is being detected in small but growing numbers, WHO/Europe officials said at a press briefing. Passengers […]