Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the second consecutive day on Friday due to multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district, leaving over 3000 vehicles stranded, officials said. The highway was blocked by a major landslide at Trishul Morh, Battery Cheshma and Pantiyal areas on Thursday, officials said. Deputy Superintendent of […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally zoomed past 29 lakh, a day after it crossed 28 lakh, with a single-day spike of 68,898 infections, while the recoveries have increased to 21,58,946 on Friday taking the recovery rate to over 74 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total cases of coronavirus infections mounted […]
Washington:Businessman Mike Bloomberg is urging Americans to evaluate President Donald Trump like a coworker or employee when deciding whether to give him another term. At Thursday’s Democratic National Convention, Bloomberg asked: “Would you rehire or work for someone who ran your business into the ground, and who always does what’s best for him or her, […]
United Nations: The United States has notified UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of its decision to trigger a ‘snapback’ that will initiate restoration of all UN sanctions on Iran, saying Washington will never allow “the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism” to freely buy and sell any kind of conventional weapons. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo […]
PUNE: Doctors and clinical investigators involved in treating coronavirus infection have claimed that there was no evidence of the disease recurring in people who have recovered from it. However, Dr Giridhar Babu, who is part of ICMR’s research task force on Epidemiology and Surveillance, said it is difficult to say confidently where or not there […]
Calls 5 more leaders for meet today Srinagar: Four senior National Conference leaders on Thursday attended a meeting convened by party president Farooq Abdullah at his residence, days after the Jammu and Kashmir administration denied in the High Court the party’s claim that many of its leaders were in illegal confinement at their homes. NC […]
Banihal/Jammu:Multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains blocked the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district on Thursday, leaving over 200 vehicles stranded, officials said. The 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country, was blocked by landslides at Trishul Morh, Battery Cheshma and Pantiyal areas, officials said. As a result, over […]
New Delhi: Google on Thursday said its Gmail service has been restored for some users and the outage issue will be resolved for all affected users “in the near future”, hours after the popular emailing service faced a global disruption since this morning. Some users faced issues like inability to log in, add attachments and […]
Mumbai: The Indian rupee slid 20 paise to settle at 75.02 to the US dollar on Thursday, tracking weaker Asian currencies amid concerns over global economic recovery due to rising coronavirus cases. At the interbank forex market, the domestic unit hit an intra-day high of 74.93 and low of 75.05 against the US dollar. It […]
Mumbai: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has emhasised that although there is headroom for further monetary policy action, the “arsenal” has to be kept dry and used judiciously for promoting growth which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the MPC minutes released on Thursday. After a three-day brainstorming earlier this month, all […]