Anantnag: The total number of active cases of Covid-19 in Kashmir is in three figures for the first time since the beginning of the second wave. At the same time, the hospital bed occupancy in the ten districts of Kashmir division is a little more than three percent. The active cases dipped below the 1,000 […]
SRINAGAR: The government on Monday informed that 102 new cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), 20 from Jammu division and 82 from Kashmir division, were reported on Monday, along with 1 COVID-19 related death reported from Jammu division. The official daily bulletin said that 189 COVID-19 patients recovered and were discharged from various hospitals in the […]
Anantnag: An “unidentified” militant has been killed in an ongoing gunfight between militants and government forces here in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, police have said. “The operation is going on. So far an unidentified militant has been killed in the gunfight,” a senior police official said, adding that the gunfight was going on in […]
Srinagar: A trial court at Srinagar on Monday issued notice to the Station House Officer, Kothi Bagh police station, to remain present in court on August 28 in connection with the Kashmirfight blog case. The police had failed to submit investigation report and FIR contentions before the court in this case. The Chief Judicial Magistrate […]
Shopian: The tourist park at Padpawan area on Mughal Road which was developed some three years ago by utilising a large chunk of forest land is now filled with plastic bags, food wastes, and dirt. The authorities seem to be not bothered about keeping the place clean and saving the forest area from pollution. Yasir […]
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party on Monday was poised to form the government in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PaK) for the first time after it won 25 of 45 seats in the legislative assembly elections marred by deadly violence and allegations of irregularities by the Opposition, local media reported. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) won 25 […]
Srinagar: In the wake of the “Pegasus Project” revelation that nearly 200 journalists around the world have been Pegasus spyware targets, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled recommendations for journalists who could themselves be the targets of those who buy this high-performance surveillance software. In a press release, the RSF said that Pegasus’s strength is […]
Washington: President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi are expected to announce on Monday that they’ve come to an agreement to end the US military’s combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, according to a senior Biden administration official. The plan to shift the American military mission, whose stated purpose […]
Kabul: More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since the United Nations began systematically keeping count in 2009, a UN report said Monday. The war-torn country saw a 47 per cent increase in the number of all […]
SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta chaired a meeting to review the status of National Highway-44 and took stock of the ongoing road-widening works especially in District Ramban. Administrative Secretaries of departments of Revenue, Power Development, Public Works (R&B), and Forest, Ecology & Environment, besides District Development Commissioner (DDC), Ramban, SSP Traffic, National Highway, […]