Bakerwal families along with cattle transported in trucks to avoid snarls on Sgr-Jmu highway

Bakerwal families along with cattle transported in trucks to avoid snarls on Sgr-Jmu highway

Jammu: Nearly 16,500 cattle were transported on trucks from Banihal in Ramban district to Jammu in order to avoid traffic disruption on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway caused by foot movement of nomadic families and their livestock, officials said. The Ramban authority has banned the movement of nomadic families with their livestock to prevent traffic disruption […]

Partial solar eclipse seen in parts of India

New Delhi: Astronomy enthusiasts turned their gaze towards the sun as the moon started to cover the solar disc as a partial solar eclipse began on Tuesday. The partial solar eclipse is being observed in several parts of the country with Srinagar witnessing the maximum obscuration of the solar disc at 55 per cent. The […]

Rishi Sunak takes charge as UK PM with promise to ‘fix mistakes’ after meeting King Charles

Rishi Sunak takes charge as UK PM with promise to ‘fix mistakes’ after meeting King Charles

London: Rishi Sunak on Tuesday took charge as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister with a promise to fix recent “mistakes” after an audience with King Charles III, a day after he was elected the new leader of the Conservative Party in a historic leadership run. The 42-year-old investment banker-turned politician is the youngest British prime […]

Triggers war of words between BJP, opposition leaders

Proud moment that UK will have Indian-origin PM, says Mehbooba New Delhi: With opposition leaders using the elevation of Rishi Sunak as Britain’s next prime minister to lament alleged majoritarianism and divisiveness in India, the BJP on Tuesday cited APJ Abdul Kalam’s and Manmohan Singh’s rise as the country’s president and prime minister to hit […]

US vows full military defence of allies against North Korea

Tokyo: The United States will make full use of its military capabilities, “including nuclear, conventional and missile defence,” to defend its allies Japan and South Korea, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Tuesday as she warned North Korea against escalating its provocations. Sherman said North Korea’s repeated firings of ballistic missiles and artillery […]

WhatsApp resumes after over an hour of disruption

New Delhi: Popular messaging app WhatsApp faced a global outage from the UK to India, with users being not able to send and receive text and video messages for more than an hour. The services were restored for some users after the unexplained disruption that last over an hour. The resumption of service was confirmed […]

Pakistan bringing home body of journalist killed in Kenya

Islamabad: The body of an outspoken Pakistani journalist who was shot and killed by Nairobi police while living in hiding in Kenya is being repatriated to Islamabad on Tuesday, the government said. The killing has stunned Pakistan’s journalist community, which has demanded a detailed probe into the incident. Arshad Sharif was killed on Sunday night […]

India considered war never first but last resort: PM Modi

India considered war never first but last resort: PM Modi

Reaches Kargil to celebrate Diwali Says strength necessary for peace Kargil: India stands for peace and has always considered war as not the first but last resort, but its armed forces have the strength and strategies to give a befitting reply to anyone who casts an evil eye on the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

CRPF commandant held for sexually harassing woman officer in Udhampur, gets bail

CRPF commandant held for sexually harassing woman officer in Udhampur, gets bail

Udhampur/Jammu: A commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was arrested on the charge of sexually harassing a woman officer of the force in Udhampur district, officials said on Monday. A complaint was registered on Sunday in which an assistant commandant of a CRPF unit at Battal Ballian alleged that commandant Surinder Singh Rana […]