MUMBAI: Rishi Kapoor’s death is the end of an era in Hindi cinema, said co-stars and friends Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan and Karan Johar as they reminisced about the time spent with the actor who loved to live larger-than-life. The actor, 67, died on Thursday at HN Reliance hospital here after a two year long […]
BEIJING: China opposes any “arbitrary” probe into the origin of coronavirus pandemic that is based on the presumption of its guilt, Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said. “This is an arbitrary investigation based on the presumption of guilt. That is what we firmly oppose,” Efe news reported on Thursday citing Le as saying. “We support […]
WASHINGTON: US president Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire Thursday, and his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, predicted that by July the country will be “really rocking again.” To underscore his confidence, Trump said he plans to resume out-of-state travel […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday said the Bar Council of India (BCI) may consider an emergency fund for independent practising advocates who are in need of financial assistance and are “facing a tough time” during the COVID-19 pandemic. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana, hearing a plea on the matter through video-conferencing, […]
NEW DELHI: The current doubling rate for Covid-19 cases has improved to 11 days as against 3.4 days before the lockdown was imposed, while the case fatality has been recorded at 3.2 per cent, the health ministry said. Addressing a press briefing, health ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said the doubling rate of Covid 19 […]
Brussels: The working conditions of news reporters around the globe have deteriorated during the coronavirus pandemic amid job losses and attacks on media freedom, according to a survey published Thursday by the International Federation of Journalists. Three out of four journalists have faced restrictions, obstruction or intimidation while covering the coronavirus crisis, the group said, […]
United Nations: Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the continued sharp decline in working hours because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the International Labour Organization has said. More than 430 million enterprises in hard-hit sectors such as retail […]
Two Covid labs in Kashmir test 1,140 samples in a day
THIS NEWS IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY KHYBER MILK Two Covid labs in Kashmir test 1,140 samples in a day Srinagar: Sixteen more persons tested positive of the novel Coronavirus in Kashmir on Wednesday, taking the number of Covid-19 patients in J&K to 582, officials said. They said among the new Covid-19 positive patients six were […]
Srinagar: Scores of Kashmiri students stuck in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh amid the prevailing COVID-19 lockdown have appealed Jammu and Kashmir government to bring them back to the Valley. The students and research scholars pursuing different programmes at Aligarh Muslim University and a few other colleges. They said that they were going through “mental anxiety” in […]
SRINAGAR: In view of current situation of COVID-19 pandemic, the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole on Wednesday made fervent appeal to the NGOs and voluntary organizations active in Kashmir to come forward to help the needy by augmenting the measures taken by the government in this regard. He also framed Divisional Level Cell (DLC), […]