SRINAGAR: Mayor Srinagar Juniad Azim Mattu and Principle Secretary Housing and Urban Development (H&UDD), Dheeraj Gupta along with Commissioner SMC launched a massive sanitation drive at Zero Bridge, Srinagar. On the occasion, Mayor asked Commissioner SMC to issue directions to Urban Forestry for developing the landscape around Jhelum bund. He also asked for plantation of […]
GANDERBAL: On day two of ambitious programme of the government, My Town My Pride (MTMP) 2.0, Commissioner Secretary Social Welfare (SWD), Sheetal Nanda inaugurated several projects to a tune of Rs 12.40 crore in several wards of Municipal Council Ganderbal. On the culmination day of MTMP 2.0, Commissioner Secretary who is visiting officer to the […]
RIYADH: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia this week, meeting the king and de facto ruler of the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi state media reported on Tuesday. Xi, head of the world’s number-two economy, will also attend a summit with rulers from the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council and […]
New Delhi : While hybrid immunity is behind India’s low COVID-19 numbers, a large section of China’s population may not have this protection provided by a combination of vaccination and prior infection, leading to spurt in cases there, experts say. The experts also questioned the efficacy of the vaccines available to the people in China. […]
SHOPIAN: The District Magistrate (DM) Shopian, Sachin Kumar Vaishya today held a meeting of all Executive Magistrates and Forest department officers to discuss and take stringent measures against timber/ forest smuggling in the district. The departments intimated about the measures being taken by them to curb the smuggling in the district. It was apprised during […]
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: A roadside bomb killed seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial police spokesman said. “The bomb was placed in a cart by the roadside. It was detonated as the bus arrived,” said Asif Waziri, of the Balkh police department in Mazar-i-Sharif. Although the Taliban claim to have […]
Patna: RJD president Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya, who donated a kidney to her father, has earned the praise of Union minister Giriraj Singh, one of the most strident opponents of the former Bihar chief minister. Singh, who represents the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat of the state, expressed his sentiments on Twitter, sharing a picture […]
New Delhi: Union Minister of Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal Tuesday announced that three National Ayush Institutes – All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Goa, National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), Ghaziabad and National Institute of Homoeopathy (NIH), Delhi will be dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 11th December 2022. These satellite […]
Regrets boycotting 2018 Panchayat polls, says NC to contest all elections in future Srinagar: Re-elected National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Monday said boycotting the panchayat polls in 2018 was “a huge mistake” and the party must contest every future election in Jammu and Kashmir. Abdullah also warned the government and the security forces not […]
Srinagar: Farooq Abdullah was re-elected president of the National Conference (NC) for another term on Monday. The 85-year-old leader was unanimously elected the party’s chief at the NC’s delegate session held near the masoleum of party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah at Naseem Bagh here. The day also marked the 117th birth anniversary of Sheikh Abdullah. […]