France, Tunisia urge UN council to adopt COVID-19 resolution

France, Tunisia urge UN council to adopt COVID-19 resolution

UNITED NATIONS: France and Tunisia urged the UN Security Council on Tuesday to adopt a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in major conflicts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic after weeks of contentious negotiations that have paralyzed the United Nations’ most powerful body. France, one of five veto-wielding permanent council members, and Tunisia, one of 10 […]

Reyaz Naikoo: From a maths teacher to a Hizbul militant

Reyaz Naikoo: From a maths teacher to a Hizbul militant

Srinagar: From a maths teacher to a Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Reyaz Naikoo had a lucky run for eight years before he was killed by security forces on Wednesday in a gun battle lasting five hours. Life came full circle for the 35-year-old commander of Hizbul Mujahideen as he was gunned down in the same village […]

34 new coronavirus cases in J&K, total 775

34 new coronavirus cases in J&K, total 775

Srinagar: The novel coronavirus cases in Jammu and Kashmir reached 775 on Wednesday as 34 more people tested positive, officials said. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 445. Thirty-two out of the 34 new cases are from the Kashmir Valley, while two were from the Jammu region, according to the officials. “Thirty-four new […]

9 cr people have downloaded Aarogya Setu app: Govt

9 cr people have downloaded Aarogya Setu app: Govt

New Delhi: Close to nine crore users have downloaded the Aarogya Setu mobile application and it has been made mandatory that government and private sector employees use it to bolster efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was informed about this on Tuesday by officials during its 14th meeting […]

First Hindu youth joins Pakistan Air Force

First Hindu youth joins Pakistan Air Force

Islamabad: In a first, a Pakistani Hindu youth has become the first person from the minority community to join the Pakistan Air Force. Rahul Dev has been recruited as a General Duty Pilot Officer, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said in a tweet. Dev hails from Tharparkar district of Sindh province. Sharing the picture of […]

China asks Pompeo to show ‘enormous evidence’ of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan lab

China asks Pompeo to show ‘enormous evidence’ of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan lab

Beijing: China on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show the “enormous evidence” he claimed to have to prove that the novel coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan and asserted that the virus was not man-made. On May 3, Pompeo said that the US has “enormous evidence” to show that the […]

Trump admin ignored concern over hydroxychloroquine import from in India, Pak: Fired US scientist

Trump admin ignored concern over hydroxychloroquine import from in India, Pak: Fired US scientist

Washington: A fired American scientist has alleged that the Trump administration ignored the concern of doctors in the US over the importation of hydroxychloroquine from “uninspected factories” in India and Pakistan and flooded the country with the “unproven and potentially dangerous” anti-malarial drug. In a complaint filed on Tuesday before the US Office of Special […]

COVID-19 death toll touches 1,694; cases rise to 49,391

COVID-19 death toll touches 1,694; cases rise to 49,391

New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,694 and the number of cases climbed to 49,391 in the country on Wednesday, registering an increase of 126 deaths and 2,958 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases is 33,514. A total of 13,160 […]

Top Hizb commander killed in South Kashmir village

Srinagar, May 6 (PTI) A top Hizbul Mujahideen commander, on the run for eight years, was on Wednesday killed in an encounter with security forces in his home village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said. The Jammu and Kashmir authorities have already snapped mobile internet services across the valley as a precautionary measure, in anticipation […]

14 new Covid-19 positive patients in Kashmir

14 new Covid-19 positive patients in Kashmir

Srinagar: Fourteen more persons tested positive of the novel Coronavirus in Kashmir on Tuesday, taking the number of Covid-19 patients in J&K to 740, officials said. They said among the new Covid-19 positive patients, nine were detected at the virology lab of SKIMS Soura while five were confirmed at Chest Disease Hospital lab. Nodal Officer […]