Srinagar: Kashmir University’s Department of Social Work (DoSW) organised a day-long consultative workshop on drug de-addiction skills. The workshop, organised under RUSA 2.0 programme, was attended by experts and students from University of Kashmir and Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS). Renowned experts spoke at length on various aspects of drug de-addiction and how […]
US health regulators on Wednesday authorised the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. The long-awaited milestone comes as US cases, hospitalisations and deaths are all rising and health officials warn of a tsunami of new infections […]
VARANASI: Taking a swipe at Opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said talking about cow has been made a matter of “crime” by some people but “it is mother and sacred for us”. The PM was addressing a rally here after inaugurating and laying foundation stones of 27 projects, including a dairy project, […]
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has raised queries and sought more data from Serum Institute of India over its application seeking emergency authorisation for Covid vaccine Covovax, official sources said on Thursday. Serum Institute of India (SII) had sent an application to the DCGI in October for the grant of market […]
Srinagar/Bijbehara: A civilian and a police official were killed by militants in two separate attacks in Srinagar and Anantnag on Wednesday. The incidents occurred within a gap of half an hour of each other. Unidentified militants, according to police, fired upon a civilian in Merjanpora area of Safakadal in Srinagar in the evening. Identified as […]
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed a few targeted attacks on people belonging to minority communities by militant sponsored from across the border, and four militants involved in the incidents have been killed, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya […]
Srinagar/New Delhi: Lashing out at the Delimitation Commission over its draft recommendations, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday accused the panel of fulfilling the BJP’s agenda of “disempowering” people of Kashmir, and said his National Conference (NC) will fight the move through democratic means. The commission’s proposal to increase the number […]
Jammu: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday made veiled statements equating the BJP’s rule with that of former Pakistani military dictator General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and accused the saffron party of poisoning people’s minds. She appealed to the people, especially the youth of both Jammu and Kashmir divisions, to come together and fight for the lost […]
New Delhi: National Conference Members of Parliament led by Dr Farooq Abdullah met CPI (M) senior leader Sitaram Yachury on Wednesday. Abdullah ,Hassnai Masoodi, Muhammad Akbar Lone expressed gratitude to the CPIM senior on his continued support denouncing the August 5, 2019 (Article 370, 35 [A] Delimitation) decisions, a statement said. The leaders discussed the […]
Srinagar: People’s Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Wednesday accused National Conference of legitimizing the “grossly unfair” proposal of Delimitation Commission by participating in the proceedings, claiming that the recommendation of the panel cannot be challenged before any court of law. The Delimitation Commission, set up to redraw the assembly seats of the union territory, […]