PERTH — Australia produced a clinical performance to thrash Sri Lanka by seven wickets in a Super 12 match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 at Perth Stadium, here on Tuesday. After losing their opening match to neighbours New Zealand by a big margin, Australia had to win against Sri Lanka to keep […]
SRINAGAR — A 37-year-old jail inmate died after ‘falling from a sub-jail building’ in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district this afternoon, officials said. Identifying the deceased as one Mohammad Yousuf Bhat son of Abdul Aziz Bhat, a resident of Prangroo Mawer Handwara, the officials said that the person was evacuated to SDH Kupwara where the doctors […]
NEW DELHI — Astronomy enthusiasts turned their gaze towards the sun as the moon started to cover the solar disc as a partial solar eclipse began on Tuesday. The partial solar eclipse is being observed in several parts of the country with Srinagar witnessing the maximum obscuration of the solar disc at 55 per cent. […]
NEW DELHI — Popular messaging app WhatsApp faced a global outage from the UK to India, with users being not able to send and receive text and video messages for more than an hour. The services were restored for some users after the unexplained disruption that last over an hour. The resumption of service was […]
NEW DELHI — Meta-owned WhatsApp is currently facing a global outage, including in India, as multiple users reported that they cannot access the messaging service or get a single tick even for delivered messages. According to Down Detector, over 85 per cent of people reported problems while messaging, 11 per cent while using the app, […]
SRINAGAR — Massive fire damaged a mosque and a residential house in Tarzoo area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district overnight, official sources said on Tuesday. Two firefighters were also injured while dousing the “sky touching” flames, the official sources told GNS. They said that the massive fire broke out at Izat Shah colony […]
SRINAGAR — Founder and chairman of Ittihadul Musilmeen, Mohammad Abbas Ansari passed away after a prolonged illness at his residence in Khankhai Subah Nawakadal in Srinagar. Family sources told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that Abbas Ansari was not keeping well since long and over the couple of days his health deteriorated. They said […]
SRINAGAR — Partial solar eclipse will be visible in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday as the weather will remain dry and the sky will be clear, said the Meteorological (MeT) office here. “Partial solar eclipse will start at 4.17 p.m. in Jammu and at 4.14 p.m. in Srinagar today. The eclipse will end after sunset. […]
NEW DELHI — Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Monday visited forward posts in the Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir and asked the soldiers deployed in the region to maintain operational preparedness of the “highest order”. Gen Chauhan also celebrated Diwali with the troops. The field commanders in the Rajouri sector […]
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court observed on Monday that Imran Khan was not barred from contesting elections in the future as it heard the disqualification case of the former prime minister by the country’s top election body. Khan, 70, was disqualified on Friday by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the Toshakhana case for […]