Islamabad, Pakistan’s military on Tuesday claimed that its navy blocked an Indian submarine from entering into the country’s waters last week. There was no immediate response from the Indian Navy to the Pakistani claim. The incident occurred on October 16 when an Indian submarine was detected by a Pakistan Navy (PN) patrol aircraft, the Pakistan […]
Jammu: Former Jammu and Kashmir minister Prem Sagar Aziz quit the National Conference (NC) here on Tuesday and extended support to former party colleague Devender Singh Rana, who joined the BJP recently. Aziz, who was the NC’s Bani Assembly constituency in-charge, said he is resigning from the primary membership of the party, along with his supporters. […]
Qazigund: A 25-year-old man was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel in Qazigund area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday morning. An official said that a man identified as Mohammed Haneef Gogar, son of Ghulam Hassan Gogar of Monhal Ukhral Ramban was found dead in a room at hotel in Chaimulla […]
Jammu: Army chief General M M Naravane visited forward areas along the LoC in Jammu region on Tuesday and was briefed on the ground situation in the region and ongoing counter-infiltration operations, officials said. The Army chief is on a two-day visit to Jammu, they said. Naravane visited forward areas of the White Knight Corps and […]
Poonch: A 28-year-old youth was killed and his younger brother was injured when a motor cycle they were riding met with an accident near Eidgah Chowk in Poonch, officials said. The accident took place at about 23:45 hours last night, leading to injuries to two persons—Sukhvinder Singh (28) and Manjot Singh (14-15) sons of […]
Jerusalem/Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had a “fruitful” first quadrilateral meeting with his counterparts from the US, Israel and the UAE on ways to expand economic and political cooperation in the Middle East and Asia, including through trade and enhancing maritime security. Jaishankar, who is currently on a five-day visit to Israel, was accompanied […]
Washington: In a major blow to Nirav Modi, a bankruptcy court in the US has rejected a petition of the fugitive diamond merchant and two of his associates, seeking dismissal of fraud allegations against them by the trustee of three companies they previously owned indirectly. The allegations were made in a New York court by Richard […]
New Delhi: India logged 13,058 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 231 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,40,94,373, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 4,52,454 with 164 fresh fatalities, while the active cases declined to 1,83,118, the lowest […]
Kolkata: Exports of tea from India registered a fall of around 14.4 per cent in the first seven months of 2021 as compared to the same period last year. Total exports of the beverage during January to July of 2021 was 100.78 million kilograms as against 117.56 million kilograms in the same period of […]
Beijing: China’s GDP grew by 4.9 per cent in the third quarter, down from 7.9 per cent in the second, confirming the slowdown of the world’s second-largest economy which was under pressure from the crisis-hit property sector, curbs on energy and tardy recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Early to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, […]