ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that Pakistan would not restore diplomatic ties with India until New Delhi revokes its decision of scrapping the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. India abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 on August 5, 2019 and bifurcated it into two Union […]
NEW DELHI — An expert panel of the country’s central drug authority on Wednesday recommended against granting permission to the Serum Institute of India (SII) to conduct the phase 2/3 trial of Covid-19 vaccine Covovax on children aged two to 17 years, News agency PTI reported. The SII had applied to the Drugs Controller General […]
NEW DELHI — Abhimanyu Mishra on Wednesday became the youngest chess grandmaster in history. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey scored his third GM norm in Budapest, having already crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier. “On Wednesday, Mishra won the biggest game of his short but sweet career so far. He defeated the 15-year-old […]
BANDIPORA — A 52-year-old man of was killed while two others were injured during a scuffle over erection of tent at Kachi Behak (meadow) near Vewan village of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday. An official told that the three persons including a female of a Bakerwal community from Rajouri were injured during scuffle with […]
NEW DELHI — The government was bound to pay ex gratia to the next of kin of all those who died of Covid-19, the Supreme Court has said. It rejected the Centre’s plea to declare Section 12 of the National Disaster Management Act as nonmandatory and absolve the government of any duty to pay ex […]
SRINAGAR — A Sikh organisation here on Wednesday demanded the implementation of the Inter-Caste Marriage Act and the enactment of an anti-conversion law in Jammu and Kashmir. This comes amid a row over the allegations of alleged forced conversion of four women from the Sikh community to Islam in the union territory. “I, on the […]
SRINAGAR — The family of Shahid Nazir Bhat hasn’t seen him since the morning of June 21, when he left home for a walk. For two days, they did not hear from him till police came knocking on their door saying Bhat had eloped with a woman from the Sikh community and her family had […]
KULGAM — Three local LeT militants were slain in an anti-militancy operation between government forces and militants at Chimmer area in Kulgam district in South Kashmir. The militants slain in anti-militancy operation have been identified as Waseem Ahmad Bangroo from Redwani Kulgam, Shahnawaz Ahmad from Kilbal Shopian and Zakir Bashir from Chimmer Kulgam. Reports said, […]
ISLAMABAD — Asserting that as a Pakistani, he had never felt more “insulted” than when Pakistan decided to join America’s war on terror in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said his country would be a “partner with the US in peace and never in conflict”. During a wide-ranging speech in the National Assembly, […]
ISLAMABAD — The World Bank has approved a loan of USD 800 million to cash-strapped Pakistan, financing schemes on clean energy and human capital development, according to a media report on Wednesday. The loan amount would be utilised for schemes that are not covered due to the budget deficit for 2021-22 fiscal, The Express Tribune […]