BUDGAM — A mother-daughter duo was injured in a pressure cooker blast on Sunday morning in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Officials sources said that mother-daughter duo was injured in a pressure blast at Futli Pora Pakharpora area of Budgam. The duo identified as Hajara Bano (55), wife of Wali Muhammad Laway and her daughter Sabnam […]
RIYADH — Workers has begun removing social distancing stickers from indoor and outdoor corridors, squares and facilities at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, in preparatiom for the Fajr (dawn) prayer, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. This is in line with the decision to lift […]
NEW DELHI — With 5,476 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,29,62,953, while the active cases dipped to 59,442, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,15,036 with 158 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 […]
NEW DELHI — SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Saturday that its Starlink satellite broadband service has been told by some governments, not Ukraine, to block Russian news sources. “We will not do so unless at ‘gunpoint’, sorry to be a free speech absolutist”, he said in a tweet. Musk also said that SpaceX was […]
SRINAGAR — Cloudy weather with short spells of sunshine continued in J&K and Ladakh on Sunday as the Meteorological (MeT) department forecast moderate to heavy rain and snow in both the union territories during the next 24 hours. “A fresh Western Disturbance is activity over J&K and Ladakh. Widespread rain/snow is likely to occur during […]
MOSCOW — Russia has “practically” completed the “mission” of destroying Ukraine’s main military infrastructure, including weapon warehouses, ammunition depots, aviation and air defense systems, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday. “Russian forces will fulfill all their assigned tasks and the operation in Ukraine is proceeding in accordance with the plan and schedule,” Putin was quoted as […]
NEW DELHI — Energy and commodity prices-including wheat and other grains-have surged due to the war in Ukraine, adding to inflationary pressures from supply chain disruptions and the rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic, the IMF has said. Price shocks will have an impact worldwide, especially on poor households for whom food and fuel are a […]
SRINAGAR — The shopkeepers in Maisuma area of Srinagar on Saturday closed down their shops after a shopkeeper was allegedly beaten by the traffic police officials when they were removing the illegal car parking from the roadsides. A shopkeeper was allegedly thrashed when he tried to intervene after a customer’s vehicle was being fined for […]
JAMMU — Three years after she allegedly went missing from Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, a young woman was “rescued” and her alleged abductor arrested from Dehradun in Uttarakhand, police said on Saturday. In 2019, a complaint had been lodged at the Mandi police station alleging that a 15-year-old girl was abducted by a local youth. […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCC&I) on Saturday demanded authorities that the operation of international flights be started at Srinagar international airport ahead of tourism season as well as the holy month of Ramadan. Addressing a presser here, KCC&I president, Sheikh Ashiq said that ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, the […]