UNITED NATIONS — UN chief Antonio Guterres will travel to Pakistan next week for a solidarity visit as the country and million of its people reel from the impact of “epochal” levels of rain and flooding, as a USD 160 million emergency plan was launched to help the cash-starved nation deal with the climate calamity. […]
ISLAMABAD — The death toll in Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding has increased to 1,162 as the cash-strapped country struggles to rescue and care for millions of people displaced by the surging waters. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said the victims included 384 children and 231 women, and the death toll is expected to further increase […]
UNITED NATIONS — Pakistan’s spokesperson has said that although Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted a message of sympathy for the floods ravaging his country, he does not expect the disaster to lead to better relations with India while it is “logical” in these circumstances for countries to “set aside other considerations and to […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Wednesday forecast mainly clear to partly cloudy weather in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. The weather was mainly clear in the union territory on Tuesday. “Mainly clear to partly cloudy weather is likely in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT […]
NEW DELHI — Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will address a rally in Jammu on September 4, his first after quitting the Congress. The rally is planned on the day Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is slated to address a ‘Mehngai par Halla Bol’ event in the national capital. With the timing […]
GANDERBAL — A 22-year-old youth, who was injured due to an electric shock in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday evening, succumbed to his injuries at SKIMS Soura An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the youth namely Danish Nisar (22) son of Nisar Ah Rather of Gangarhama was injured due to […]
NEW DELHI — The family of a 55-year-old woman who suffered a severe head injury recently donated her vital organs at the AIIMS here on Tuesday, which helped save the lives of four people, the hospital said. The deceased, Krishna, had gone for morning walk on August 27. A local, who knew her, saw her […]
NEW DELHI — Expressing dissatisfaction over the Centre’s delay in responding to a plea challenging the Jammu and Kashmir delimitation exercise, the Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned as to why the government did not file the counter affidavit even after being granted six weeks’ time. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and A.S. Oka […]
JAIPUR — Two residents of Jammu and Kashmir were caught in a restricted area in Jaisalmer district and are being interrogated jointly, police said on Tuesday. Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Premshankar said on the information of the Border Security Force (BSF), a police team caught Mohammad Abbas (23) and Mumtaz Ahmed (25), residents of Poonch in […]
GANDERBAL — A youth was injured after due to an electric shock in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the youth namely Danish Nisar (22) son of Nisar Ah Rather of Gangarhama got injured due to electric shock, while unloading a truck at Bamloora. He […]