NEW DELHI: Delhi’s air quality turned “severe” on Diwali with stubble burning accounting for 32 per cent of the city’s PM2.5 pollution and calm winds worsening the situation as they allowed accumulation of pollutants, weather officials said. The Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitor, SAFAR, said, “Even a small increase in local additional emissions […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his government is under pressure to recognize Israel, insisting that Islamabad would never establish relations with the “Zionists”. Khan revealed this during an interview with a private television, where he stated that after the recognition of Israel by Arab countries including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday paid tributes to India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, saying he was a towering visionary who laid the foundation of the country with values of brotherhood, egalitarianism and modern outlook. Born in 1889, the Congress stalwart remains India’s longest serving Prime Minister. Today, […]
NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry has introduced an incentive structure to extend monetary support to 500 private academies through the Khelo India Scheme over the next four years starting 2020-21. In this model, private academies shall be graded into different categories based on quality and achievement of players trained by the academy, level of coaches […]
Srinagar: The moderate Hurriyat Conference on Saturday said India and Pakistan should hold talks to resolve the Kashmir issue and to stop the “senseless bloodshed” of people along the Line of Control (LoC). In a statement, the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led amalgam expressed grief and dismay at the escalation along the LoC in which several […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday extended his greetings to the country’s minority Hindu community on the occasion of Diwali, the festival of lights. Khan conveyed his wishes with a simple message on Twitter. “Wishing all our Hindu citizens a happy Diwali,” he wrote. Pakistani Hindus are celebrating Diwali across the country with […]
Washington: Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic. For now, it’s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid. In the week since he defeated President Donald Trump, Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 87.73 lakh with 44,684 new infections in a day, while 81,63,572 people have recuperated from the disease so far, bringing the national recovery rate to 93.04 per cent on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The fresh cases pushed the number of novel coronavirus cases […]
Washington: US President Donald Trump has ruled out a national lockdown under his administration to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, saying such a move costs lives, impacts the economy and “the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself”. The United States experienced the smallest economic contraction and the most rapid economic recovery of any major […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday summoned a senior diplomat from the Indian High Commission here to register its protest over the alleged ceasefire violations by the Indian forces along the Line of Control (LoC). The Foreign Office said that due to “indiscriminate and unprovoked firing” in Rakhchikri and Khanjar Sectors on Thursday, one person was killed […]