SAN FRANCISCO — In a bid to help users discover quality apps on large screens, tech giant Google is making big changes in Play Store to enable users to discover and engage with high-quality apps and games. “We recently published our large screen app quality guidelines in addition to our core app quality guidelines to […]
NEW DELHI — In the last 24 hours, India reported 1,549 new Covid-19 cases and 31 deaths, the Union Health Ministry announced on Monday. The new fatalities increased the nationwide death toll to 5,16,510. Following a continuous downward trend, India’s active caseload has further declined to 25,106 on Monday, constituting 0.06 per cent of the […]
KUPWARA — Four residential houses were gutted in a fire at Ganai Mohalla area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday. An official of fire and emergency department told GNS that soon after receiving the information about the blaze, fire engines were rushed to the area. Four houses, one of them three-storey and others two-storey, […]
SRINAGAR — The sky remained partly cloudy in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh with light rain on Monday, according to the Met Department. “Weather is likely to remain dry with generally clear sky in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh during the next 24 hours,” a Department official said The minimum temperature on Monday in Srinagar, […]
BENGALURU — The mortal remains of a medical student from the state, who was killed in Russian shelling in war-torn Ukraine, arrived at the airport here on Monday. Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagaudar, a Final Year Medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University, died on March 1, in the conflict zone. Gyanagaudar’s family members, Chief Minister Basavaraj […]
NEW DELHI — The Rajya Sabha on Monday will discuss the 2022-23 budget for Jammu and Kashmir. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation Bill, 2022’ and ‘The Appropriation Bill, 2022’ for consideration in the Upper House of Parliament. On March 14, the union territory’s budget was presented and passed by […]
JAMMU — Stating that political parties, including Congress, create division among people on various grounds, former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Sunday, while referring to the 1990 exodus and killings of the Kashmiri Pandits, said that Pakistan and militancy were responsible for all that took place in the valley. His remarks came in the […]
NEW DELHI — The price of diesel sold to bulk users has been hiked by about Rs 25 per litre in line with a near 40 per cent rise in international oil prices, but retail rates at petrol pumps remain unchanged, sources said. Petrol pump sales have jumped by a fifth this month after bulk […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday lauded India for following an independent foreign policy , saying it imported crude oil from Russia despite American sanctions. Khan, a fierce critic of the ruling NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, spoke highly of the Indian foreign policy. In his address to a […]
SRINAGAR — Advisor to LG of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Khan on Sunday evening submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Home Affairs to take up an important political assignment in view of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Khan confirmed that he has put in his papers. Sources disclosed to KNO that Khan submitted […]
