Poonch: Police and army defused a “locally made” Improvised Explosive Device in Mendhar area of Poonch district on Sunday. Official sources said that an unclaimed bike with some “IED-type object” adjacent to it was found near Pankha, prompting authorities to close Mendhar-Gohlad road while Bomb Disposal Squad was rushed to the area. SDPO Mendhar […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Doctors Coordination Committee(JKDCC) which is an amalgam of various doctors associations, Sunday in a statement showed indignation against “undue interference by revenue officials in day to day hospital affairs”. Dr M Y Tak Convenor JKDCC said in a statement that the J&K adminstration has “badly failed during this winter’s snow […]
Sydney: Australia coach Justin Langer on Sunday called it a shame and one of his greatest “pet hates” after some spectators directed racial abuse at Indian players during the third Test here and were expelled from the Sydney Cricket Ground for their behaviour. Play was halted for a few minutes on the fourth day after […]
Srinagar: A People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Sarpanch was among two persons who died of cardiac arrest in south Kashmir districts on Sunday morning, taking the total number of deaths due to heart attack in the valley to 11. As per officials, Mohammad Shaban Shah (50) son of Mume Shah, a resident of Bon Numbal […]
Sydney:Seasoned off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Sunday said racist abuse from the crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground is not new and needs to be dealt with an iron fist after some spectators were ejected for targetting Indian players during the ongoing third Test against Australia here on Sunday. Speaking at the end […]
Islamabad: Power supply was restored fully or partially on Sunday in many cities in Pakistan, including the national capital Islamabad, hours after several towns in the country plunged into darkness following a huge blackout due to a fault in the power distribution system. The power outage was reported shortly before midnight almost simultaneously in […]
Jakarta: Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. We received reports from the diver team that the visibility in the water is […]
Washington: China is recovering fast ahead of most large economies, but the recovery is still unbalanced and facing significant downside risks, the IMF has said, projecting an eight per cent growth rate for the world’s second largest economy in 2021. However, the main concern around the Chinese recovery that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has […]
Poonch: An unclaimed motorcycle with some “IED-type object” found adjacent to it triggered panic in Mendhar area of Poonch district on Sunday. The authorities have closed Mendhar-Gohlad road even as a team of Bomb Disposal Squad has been rushed to the area. Official sources said that during the intervening night of 9 and 10 […]
Srinagar: Parts of Kashmir including Srinagar received very light snowfall overnight even as mercury remained below sub-zero levels with Gulmarg remaining coldest in the valley. A meteorological department official here said that Srinagar received 2.5cm of fresh snowfall in the last 24 hours till 0830 hours. Qazigund, the gate town of Kashmir, received 0.7cm of […]