SRINAGAR: Directorate of School Education Kashmir today conducted a webinar on the occasion of ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’ themed ‘Working together to prevent suicides’. The webinar was inaugurated in virtual mode by Director School Education Kashmir Mohammad Younis Malik. In his speech, Director Education emphasized the primary role of teachers in helping and guiding the […]
New Delhi: After years of negotiations, India and Japan have inked a landmark agreement that will allow their militaries to access each other’s bases for logistics support, a key development that comes in the backdrop of growing concerns over China’s military muscle flexing in the region. The acquisition and cross-servicing pact was signed by Defence […]
Srinagar : A meet of party’s North Zone functionaries was held here at party headquarters Nawa-e-Subha, Sri. The meeting was presided over by the Party Vice President Mr. Omar Abdullah. Party General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, Additional General Secretary Dr. Sheikh Mustufa Kamal, Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani; MP Baramulla and North Zone President Muhammad […]
Hanoi: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Southeast Asian nations Thursday to reconsider deals with Chinese companies blacklisted by Washington for building island outposts he says Beijing is using to bully” rival claimants in the disputed South China Sea. Pompeo spoke with counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in an annual conference […]
Dubai: A 34-year-old Indian software engineer has won a whopping USD 1 million (Rs 7.3 crore) in a lucky draw contest here, according to a media report on Thursday. “I’m really glad and thankful to Dubai Duty Free for this amazing opportunity. This will definitely secure a better future for my family in India, Laxmi […]
17 deaths reported in 24 hours, 7 in Kashmir, 10 in Jammu Srinagar: Covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir swelled to 47,542 after 1,617 new cases were reported, the highest in a single day, so far, on Wednesday. The death toll also rose to 832 as 17 deaths due to Covid-19 were reported in the […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir University (KU) has requested the health department to conduct rapid antigen tests of all its staffers after 14 non-teaching staff tested positive of the novel coronavirus. The request has been made in view of almost 200 applications received from staffers for a Covid-19 test. Officials at the varsity said that rapid antigen […]
SRINAGAR: The Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education, Atal Dulloo on Wednesday called for rigorous home-to-home survey in all red zones of Jammu and Kashmir for effective containment of spread of Covid-19. This was said by the FC while chairing a meeting of officers here at Civil Secretariat. Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, Deputy […]
Jammu: The Jammu-based Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) is undertaking clinical trials of 3-4 formulations for developing a COVID-19 drug, a senior official had said. The IIIM is also in the final stages of validating a new machine-less coronavirus diagnostics kit, which can help the country scale up COVID-19 testing. “For Covid-19, we are […]
Beijing: The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) would hold a luncheon meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in Moscow, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is in Moscow on a four-day visit to attend the meeting of foreign ministers of the […]