Srinagar: Body of a militant was recovered late night on Thursdsy from Check Kawoosa area after four days of searches following a brief gunfight in the Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. A senior police officer said that the body was recovered from a stream in which the militant had jumped after suffering bullet injury in […]
New Delhi:Serum Institute of India (SII) on Thursday said it is pausing clinical trials of AstraZeneca Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country. Earlier this week, AstraZeneca said it had paused the trials because of ‘an unexplained illness’ in a participant in the study. However, SII on Wednesday said it was continuing with […]
Karachi: Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar on Thursday confirmed that he is in discussions with PCB for a plum post in country’s cricket set-up which is believed to be chairman of selector’s post replacing Misbah ul Haq. The PCB has plans to removed head coach Misbah ul Haq from the chief selector’s position and […]
Beijing: China has approved for trials its first nasal spray vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus that has claimed over 904,000 lives and infected more than 27 million people globally, official media here reported on Thursday. China’s only nasal spray vaccine against the coronavirus is expected to start phase I clinical trials in November, and […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday reported 1592 new COVID-19 infections taking the overall tally to 49134. As per the government’s media bulletin, 822 cases were reported in Kashmir while Jammu division reported 770 infections. As per the data, there are 14074 active COVID-19 cases in J&K while 34215 patients have recovered from the disease. […]
London: Facebook may be forced to stop sending data about its European users to the US, in the first major fallout from a recent court ruling that found some trans-Atlantic data transfers don’t protect users from American government snooping. The social network said Wednesday that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has started an inquiry into how […]
New Delhi: Gold prices rose by Rs 287 to Rs 52,391 per 10 gram in the national capital on Thursday, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 52,104 per 10 gram. Silver prices also gained Rs 875 to Rs 69,950 per kilogram from its previous close of […]
New Delhi: After years of negotiations, India and Japan have inked a landmark agreement that will allow their militaries to access each other’s bases for logistics support, a key development that comes in the backdrop of growing concerns over China’s military muscle flexing in the region. The acquisition and cross-servicing pact was signed by Defence Secretary […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) had a detailed interaction on Wednesday. All members attended the marathon meeting which was presided over by Bashir Ahmad Bashir. Discussing the special and extra-ordinary situation that prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir, the members detailed the highs and lows of the crisis that impacted the process of collection, processing, […]
Hanoi:US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Southeast Asian nations Thursday to reconsider deals with Chinese companies blacklisted by Washington for building island outposts he says Beijing is using to “bully” rival claimants in the disputed South China Sea. Pompeo spoke with counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in an annual conference by […]