ISLAMABAD — An estimated 16 million children have been impacted by “super floods” in Pakistan with at least 3.4 million of them needing immediate lifesaving support, the UN has said. The situation is extremely grim in flood-hit areas with malnourished children battling diarrhoea, dengue fever, and several painful skin diseases, United Nations International Children’s Emergency […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will appoint a new Army chief on time in November, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Saturday and accused former premier Imran Khan of raking up controversy for his personal benefit. Asif’s remarks came days after Khan demanded that the next Chief of Army Staff should be appointed […]
NEW DELHI — Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying eight cheetahs have come and now he should tell why 16 crore jobs weren’t created in eight years. Prime Minister Modi turned 72 on Saturday. It was a busy day for the PM who, among other things, […]
SRINAGAR — The Government of India (GoI) is set to grant land ownership rights to West Pakistan refugees (WPR) in Jammu and Kashmir. The exercise to provide rights was started after Government of India abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019. Through the exercise, ownership rights will be granted to the […]
SRINAGAR — Shifting of prisoners from Jammu and Kashmir to outside the Union Territory is a purely administrative exercise undertaken due to overcrowding of jails, Director General Prisons, H K Lohia, said here on Saturday. Lohia was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at Central Jail Srinagar. “It (shifting of prisoners) is […]
SRINAGAR — Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), an amalgam of several religious organisations in Jammu and Kashmir, Saturday condemned the booking of clerics under the Public Safety Act by the union territory administration. “During the last two days, arresting more than half a dozen religious scholars and preachers of Kashmir and booking them under PSA is condemnable,” […]
BANDIPORA — Bandipora police on Saturday said that they have solved the case of the killing of migrant labourer by arresting three militants in Sadunara area of Hajin in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Senior Supritendent of Police Bandipora, Mohammad Zahid while addressing a press conference said that on intervening night of 11-12 August, a migrant […]
SRINAGAR — An elderly man drowned to death in the Dal Lake in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Saturday, officials said here. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the man identified as Ali Mohammad Dar of Abi-Nowpora locality of Khanyar drowned in the lake this morning. He said that soon after […]
SRINAGAR — Advisor to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, RR Bhatnagar on Saturday said that blood donation camps under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav are being organised across the Union Territory so as to ensure no body dies due to unavailability of blood. While talking to reporters after inaugurating a blood donation camp at SMHS Srinagar, […]
LEH — The Congress on Saturday retained Timisgam seat in the BJP-led Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), with its candidate defeating the BJP candidate by 273 votes in the by-election, officials said. Congress candidate Tashi Tundup won the by-election for 22-Timisgam constituency, by polling 861 votes against 588 polled by the BJP’s Dorjay Namgyal, […]