Bandipora :Bandipora police continuing its drive against drug dealings and to root out the menace of drugs arrested a drug peddler in Ajas. Acting on a reliable information police party of police post Ajas led by I/C PP Ajas Insp.Qaiser Bashir along with SHO -PS Sumbal Inspector Muneeb ul Islam, arrested one person namely Imtiyaz […]
CUK VC details progress of the University Ganderbal: Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, P K Pole Saturday directed the district administration Ganderbal and all the heads of the Civil, Electric, Irrigation and Flood Control, Revenue, Jal Shakti, and other departments to extend full support and cooperation to the authorities in the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) for […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally sprinted past 59 lakh on Saturday with 85,362 fresh cases being recorded in a day, while 93,420 people recuperated from the disease during the same period taking total recoveries to over 48 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The data updated at 8 am on Saturday showed that […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on its foundation day on Saturday, saying it has been at the forefront of furthering scientific research and innovation in India. In a tweet, Modi added the organisation has also been playing a valuable role in fighting COVID-19. “Greetings to […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday launched a ‘Speak up for farmers’ campaign on social media protesting the farm bills, with Rahul Gandhi urging people to raise their voice against what he described was the Narendra Modi government’s “exploitation” of farmers. The three bills were passed by both houses of Parliament during the monsoon session […]
MOSCOW/NEW DELHI: The number of Covid-19 cases have surged to more than 32.4 million or 0.4 per cent of the Earth’s total population—meaning nearly every 250th person has already contracted coronavirus. The current world population is 7.8 billion (as of September 2020), according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometer. The number […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the global coronavirus death toll could hit two million before an effective vaccine is widely used. WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan on Friday said the figure could be even higher without concerted international action, the BBC reported. The number of Covid-19 deaths is fast approaching one million […]
Srinagar: The J&K Police on Friday said that DNA samples of the three alleged militants killed in Shopian district on July 18 by the army had matched with those of their family members in Rajouri, making the families’ case stronger that the slain were not militants but labourers. Three weeks after the trio was killed […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Friday questioned the official version that arms and ammunition were recovered from the Shopian encounter site in July after the DNA tests on Friday proved that the three slain men were labourers from Rajouri district of the union territory. According to this official version, ‘incriminating […]
Mobile internet not suspended just as it wasn’t in Tral on Thursday Anantnag: Two militants, one local and the other a Pakistani, according to police sources, were killed by government forces in Sirhama area of Bijbehara in Anantnag district on Friday. Government forces blasted to rubble the house in which the militants were holed up, […]