JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Monday said that in the past many decades no serious effort was made to prevent power losses with the result the UT continues to face huge Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses to the tune of Rs 3400 Crore a year. He also announced that Jammu areas […]
BEIJING — A Chinese airliner with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, state media has reported. Broadcaster CCTV said the accident involving a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 and occurred near the city of Wuzhou in Teng county. Media said the crash sparked a mountainside fire. It said […]
SRINAGAR — Suchetgarh, the last village along Line of Control (LoC) in Ranbir Singh Pura in Jammu division is surrounded by nearly 10 border villages. Barely 28 kms from Jammu, the Winter Capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Suchetgarh can be developed on the lines of Wagah Border in Amritsar in Punjab that will give boost […]
KUPWARA — Four persons were injured while as at least eight persons including four females were rescued on Monday after a vehicle they were travelling in was hit by an avalanche in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Officials said that four among the eight persons have also sustained injuries and were rushed to the hospital. A […]
KOLKATA — Telcos have warned that consumers may see a sharp slowdown in the availability of latest 5G mobile phones with the government calling for mandatory local testing and certification of such devices from January 1, 2023, before they are sold in the country. Telecom operators have also cautioned that any move to test and […]
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 […]