Jammu: Two National Conference leaders and more than 200 political and social activists joined the BJP here on Tuesday in the presence of the party’s Jammu and Kashmir unit president Ravinder Raina. The National Conference leaders who joined the BJP were provincial vice president S S Bunty and provincial secretary Pinky Bhat. Besides them, National […]
Jammu: The Army on Tuesday facilitated the establishment of a ‘Youth Empowerment Centre’ here with the twin objective of conducting skill development courses and de-addiction drives to promote awareness against drug abuse, a defence spokesman said. The centre at Gangyal on the outskirts of the city was set up in coordination with civil administration through […]
London: Fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census the first time the country’s official religion has been followed by a minority of the population. Britain has become less religious and less white in the decade since the last census, figures from the 2021 census […]
SHANGHAI: China’s major cities of Beijing and Shanghai were blanketed with security on Tuesday in the wake of nationwide rallies calling for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns. The country’s leadership faced a weekend of protests not seen in decades as anger over unrelenting lockdowns fuels deep-rooted frustration with its political system. A […]
London: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made a clear break with the past on UK-China relations as he declared that the “so-called golden era” of bilateral ties is over in the face of the “systemic challenge” posed by the Chinese regime to British values and interests. In his first major foreign policy speech at the […]
Beijing: The US Navy on Tuesday dismissed Beijing’s protests over a “freedom of navigation operation” conducted near a Chinese-held island in the South China Sea, in the latest incident drawing new attention to one of the world’s potential military flashpoints. In an unusual move, the Navy’s 7th Fleet issued a rebuttal to China’s objections to […]
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reiterated the UK’s commitment to a free trade agreement (FTA) with India as part of the country’s wider focus on enhancing ties with the strategic Indo-Pacific region and standing up to competitors with “robust pragmatism”. Delivering his first major foreign policy speech since taking charge at 10 Downing […]
JERUSALEM: Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces early Tuesday morning in two separate incidents in the Israeli occuppied West Bank, Palestinian officials said. Th Israeli military did not confirm the death but said its troops came under attack overnight when two military vehicles stalled just outside the town of Beit Ummar, near the city […]
NEW DEHLI: Hackers have allegedly demanded an estimated Rs 200 crore in cryptocurrency from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi as its server remained out of order for the sixth consecutive day, official sources said on Monday. It is feared that data of around 3-4 crore patients could have been compromised due […]
Ahmedabad: Campaigning for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections to be held on December 1 ended at 5 pm on Tuesday. As many as 788 candidates are in the fray for 89 seats across 19 districts of south Gujarat and Kutch-Saurashtra regions where voting will be held on Thursday. The state, which has […]