Srinagar: Communist leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on Thursday asked the Centre to take the people of the country into confidence and explain why assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are not being held as promised. He said while the polls are not a panacea for all the “ills” of Jammu and Kashmir under the present […]
Jammu city records 189.6 mm in 24 hours, highest in 26 years: MeT Jammu: Two women were washed away in flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Thursday, officials said. Their incident took place in Mehar, and the victims were identified as Shamima Begum and Rozia Begam, they said. Both of them are […]
United Nations/New Delhi:China has blocked a proposal by the US and India at the UN Security Council to designate Pakistan-based JeM’s deputy chief Abdul Rauf Azhar as a global terrorist, an action dubbed as “politically motivated” by the government sources in New Delhi. Brother of JeM chief Masood Azhar, Abdul Rauf, born in 1974 in […]
LONDON: India and the UK will continue to work intensively to meet the Diwali deadline at the end of October for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) announced during the India visit of outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a UK government statement said. In a joint outcome statement on the ongoing FTA negotiations released on […]
BEIJING: China on Thursday renewed its threat to attack Taiwan following almost a week of war games near the island. Taiwan has called Beijing’s claims to the self-governing democracy “wishful thinking” and launched its own military exercises. “Taiwan’s collusion with external forces to seek independence and provocation will only accelerate their own demise and push […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday referred to a larger bench the question whether an accused can be tried separately under the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act and the IPC for the same set of allegations, notwithstanding prior conviction or acquittal. The apex court also referred the issue whether the bar of section 300 (1) […]
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Thursday claimed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has created a storm by severing ties with the BJP and this storm can pose a challenge to the saffron party in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls if it intensifies into a cyclone. An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ lavished praise on […]
GENEVA: The total global number of unemployed youths should fall to 73 million in 2022, down by two million from the year before, the United Nations said on Thursday. However, the figure is still six million higher than the pre-pandemic level of 2019, with the recovery in youth unemployment lagging behind the bounceback in other […]
LONDON: Britain’s prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak has insisted that he would rather lose the Conservative Party leadership race to replace Boris Johnson than win on a false promise on how he plans to tackle the economic crisis. In an interview with the BBC, the former UK Chancellor said he was committed to helping the […]
COLOMBO: Several features, including curbing the Sri Lankan President’s power to sack the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, have been included in the draft of a constitutional amendment bill that seeks to reduce the concentration of power in one person, justice minister Wijeyedasa Rajapakshe has said. He said the text of the draft of the […]