Chief Whip of Conservative Party terms the claim as ‘completely false’ London: A British lawmaker of Pakistani origin on Sunday alleged that she was sacked from a ministerial role in the Conservative Party government in February 2020 because of her “Muslimness”. Nusrat Ghani, 49, was appointed to a junior ministerial post at the UK’s Department […]
Hospitalisation, positivity rates see steep spike as infection overwhelms population Anantnag: With a steep spike in the test positivity rate of Covid infections, there has been a considerable increase in hospitalisation rate as well, pushing up Covid fatalities to a seven-month-high this January. Between January 1 and 18, there had been more than 1700 percent […]
Kashmir reports 4693 cases with 1604 cases in Srinagar Srinagar: An all-time high single-day Covid cases were recorded in Jammu and Kashmir with 6568 cases of the infection on Saturday. The day also saw seven deaths by the virus including five in Jammu and two in Kashmir. Since the outbreak of the third wave, this […]
Srinagar: Normal life was affected across Jammu and Kashmir as authorities placed restrictions on the non-essential movement of people in view of upsurge in covid-19 cases, officials said. Reports said that police vehicles fitted with public address systems announced the restrictions at several places across the Kashmir valley. Shops and other business establishments in Srinagar […]
United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that he hopes the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan can be solved peacefully. “Well, the position of the UN and the resolutions that were taken are the same, remain the same. We have, as you know, a peacekeeping operation there. We are, of course, committed,” […]
Claim arrest of OGW in Awantipora Shopian: Two militants were killed in an hour-long gunfight at Kilbal area in Zaipora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday. According to police, a cordon and search operation was launched by Police, army’s 34 Rashtriya Rifles and 178 Bn CRPF in Zaipora village after getting input about […]
Says J&K ranks fifth in implementing development schemes in District Good Governance Index New Delhi/Jammu: Legislative Assembly elections will be held after the completion of the ongoing delimitation process and statehood will be restored once the situation in Jammu and Kashmir becomes normal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday. Virtually releasing India’s first […]
JAMMU: In the composite ranking of first ever District Good Governance Index (DGGI) released today by Home Minister, Amit Shah here, Jammu district has managed to top the list followed by districts of Doda, Samba, Pulwama and Srinagar. The DGGI is a framework document consisting of performance under ten governance sectors having 58 indicators with […]
‘Good governance, development in J&K far from ground realities’ Srinagar: National Conference, PDP, CPI (M) and Congress on Saturday said the government of India’s claims on good governance as contradictory to ground realities and hollow. The National Conference termed the release of ‘Good Governance Index’ for 20 J&K districts as part of governments’ efforts to […]
Says number of militants below 200 in Valley Udhampur: The Operation Snow Leopard’ is still on with troops on alert and ready to meet any eventuality as the focus of disengagements in Ladakh continues to be through talks, Army’s northern commander Lt Gen Y K Joshi said on Saturday. Joshi, the General Officer-Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), was […]