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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Srinagar: Deputy director meteorological department Srinagar Mukhtar Ahmad on Tuesday said that there will be partial solar eclipse in Jammu and Kashmir today. Mukhtar said that the eclipse will started at around 4:15 pm and will remain till 5:45 in the evening in Jammu and Kashmir. He also said that after the sunset eclipse will […]
Srinagar: Weather department here has forecast mainly dry weather over Jammu and Kashmir even as night temperature remained below normal at most places on Tuesday. “Mainly dry weather is expected to continue over Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours,” a meteorological department official here said , adding, “no large change is expected for […]
Srinagar: Massive fire damaged a mosque and a residential house in Tarzoo area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district overnight, official sources said on Tuesday. Two firefighters were also injured while dousing the “sky touching” flames, the official sources said. They said that the massive fire broke out at Izat Shah colony in Tarzoo […]
Srinagar: Founder and chairman of Ittihadul Musilmeen, Mohammad Abbas Ansari passed away after a prolonged illness at his residence in Khankhai Subah Nawakadal in Srinagar. Family sources said that Abbas Ansari was not keeping well since long and over the couple of days his health deteriorated. They said that today morning he breathed his last […]
London; Rishi Sunak will take charge as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III on Tuesday, a day after he was elected the new leader of the Conservative Party in a historic leadership run. Outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss will chair her final Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on […]
Baramulla: A teenage girl on Monday allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself to death in Kreeri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. An official said that the girl, 14, hanged herself to death at his residence in Vizer locality of Kreeri today. He said that she was rushed to SDH Kreeri where doctors declared her […]
Beijing; China’s economic growth picked up in the latest quarter but still was among the weakest in decades as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a slump while enforcing anti-virus controls and a crackdown on debt in its vast real estate industry. The world’s second-largest economy grew by 3.9% over a year earlier in […]