BARAMULLA: Postal voting for eligible voters in essential services and those on election duty commenced on Wednesday across all the seven assembly constituencies of Baramulla district, ensuring that every eligible voter, regardless of their professional commitments, has the opportunity to exercise their democratic right. The measure, allowing postal voting for these voters, is aimed at […]
BARAMULLA: On the second day of the Home Voting process in District Baramulla, polling teams continued to traverse through all the seven assembly constituencies, navigating remote and challenging terrains to ensure that eligible voters, even in the district’s most far-off areas, were able to cast their votes. Aimed at empowering elderly voters aged 85 and […]
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah has announced the death of one of its top commanders amid Israel’s intense bombardment of the country. Hezbollah confirmed that Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi had been killed in a post on Telegram early on Wednesday, hours after the Israeli military said he had been “eliminated” in an air strike on Ghobeiri […]
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world leaders, gathered for the annual high-level meeting, that the world is edging towards the unimaginable – a powder keg – which risks engulfing the world. He said that the solutions to the crises require the reform of the international institutions, including the Security Council, and commitment […]
NEW YORK: Chief Advisor to the Bangladesh interim government, Muhammad Yunus, met US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly. President Biden congratulated Yunus on his recent appointment as the head of the interim government. The two leaders affirmed the “close partnership” between the United States and […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed a new Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday evening, with Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, lawmaker Vijitha Herath and himself taking on Cabinet portfolios. Dissanayake will now oversee defence, finance, economic development, policy formulation, planning, tourism, energy, agriculture, lands, livestock, irrigation, fisheries and aquatic resources, Xinhua news agency reported. […]
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday penned a letter to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, outlining five “key concerns,” including the alleged misuse of central agencies by the BJP. Kejriwal accused the BJP of deploying agencies like the CBI and ED against political rivals and […]
NEW DELHI: The heart and soul of judging is the need to be impartial and fair and it is important that every judge is aware of his or her own predispositions, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday. The apex court’s observation came while hearing a suo motu (on its own) matter over alleged objectionable comments […]
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday slammed the BJP over its MP Kangana Ranaut’s remarks calling for bringing back the three farm laws that were repealed in 2021, and said poll-bound states including Haryana would give a befitting reply to the ruling party. Ranaut on Wednesday withdrew her remarks and expressed regret. She […]
Srinagar: Amid heightened security measures, over 2.5 million voters will decide the fate of 239 candidates in the fray for 26 assembly seats in the second phase of the election to be held in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. These assembly constituencies are spread over six districts – three in the Valley and as many […]