WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed in talks Tuesday to work together to support Ukraine and stand up to China, the White House said. They spoke for the first time hours after Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister this year, inheriting an economic crisis after the resignation of […]
TOKYO: The United States will make full use of its military capabilities, “including nuclear, conventional and missile defense,” 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 […]
London: Heat-related deaths increased by 68 per cent between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021, while vulnerable populations — the elderly and children less than a year old — were exposed to 3.7 billion more heatwave days in 2021 than annually in 1986-2005, according to a global report. The report, brought out by Lancet Countdown, focuses on the […]
New Delhi: A policeman from the northeast district was injured while attempting to nab a 22-year-old suspected drug peddler who tried to evade arrest by driving away in his car, officials said on Wednesday. Constable Harender suffered a fractured hip during the chase and is admitted to Max Hospital in Patparganj, the police said. On […]
Kannauj (UP): Four people were arrested following violence in Kanshiram Colony here, police said on Wednesday. Considering that those involved in the violence belonged to different communities, additional police force has been deployed in the area. Superintendent of Police Kunwar Anupam Singh said the incident took place when one Chitrnashu and Nikhil Mihra had gone […]
New Delhi: Twelve research scholars of Jamia Millia Islamia have been awarded the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) under the lateral entry scheme, double than last year. Lauding the improvement, Jamia Millia Islamia Vice Chancellor Najma Akhtar said Jamia stands for excellence and strives hard to provide its students with every possible support to achieve […]
Unit holders, small-time industries affected by outages Srinagar: Winter is yet to arrive and the power supply in Kashmir has already gone from bad to worse, even in the metered areas – the people complain, particularly the ones who have their businesses bearing the brunt. Complaints of erratic power supply are being received from across […]
Says 50% target of works achieved SRINAGAR: Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) has achieved a target of about 50 percent under Jan-Abhiyan, B2V4 programme. As part of the programme, various Maintenance activities are being carried out and till date out of 5875 distribution Transformers deducted for Oil topping, KPDCL team has so far achieved […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir public universities bill 2022 has proposed that the ‘government may establish new universities by converting existing colleges into universities or by merging one or more existing universities or uniting a cluster of colleges into a Cluster University’. Stating the incorporation, objects, powers, and functions, about the establishment of a new […]
Srinagar: Former chairman of the Hurriyat Conference and influential Shia leader Maulana Abbas Ansari, considered a dove among the separatist hawks, died here on Tuesday. He was 86. “Maulana (Ansari) breathed his last at his Nawakadal residence in the old city on Tuesday morning,” a relative of the deceased leader said. He said Ansari was […]