Mumbai: Ten newborn babies died after fire broke out in the Special Newborn Care Unit of a hospital in Maharashtra in the wee hours on Saturday, doctors said. All the infants were between a month and three months old, a doctor said. Fire broke out in the Bhandara district hospital at around 2 am, he said. […]
Pulwama: Four members of a single family were found unconscious on early Saturday morning after which they were shifted to hospital by police. An official told that Javaid Ahmed Thoker son of Mohd Iqbal thoker, his wife and two minor children were found unconscious at their residence in Nussipora Audoora in Keegam area of Shopian […]
New Delhi: WhatsApp, the messaging giant owned by Facebook, said its new privacy update will not impact how people communicate privately with friends and family wherever they are in the world. The update will make it easier for people to make purchases and get help from businesses on the messaging platform, a company spokesperson said on Friday. “While most people […]
New Delhi: The Border Security Force on Friday apprehended six Pakistani youths from the area along the India-Pakistan international border in Punjab, official sources said. All those nabbed are aged between 20 and 21 years. They were apprehended from the border area in Amritsar around 5 PM, they said. The six youths, the sources said, […]
Shopian: The newly elected DDC members of JKAP held a press conference here and advocated that the current situation in Shopian is not merely another snow fall but a disaster that has completely halted normal life in the district. They urged LG that Government must immediately declare Shopian as disaster hit district wherein the whole […]
New Delhi: The procedures of informing the family of the date of the execution and facilitating the last meeting with the convicts were “perhaps… not fully adhered to” in the case of Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon, felt former President Pranab Mukherjee. As the President, Mukherjee had also asked the then Home Minister Sushil Kumar […]
Jammu: A BJP worker had a narrow escape as unknown gunmen attacked his vehicle near Qasim Nagar Chowk in Bagh- e – Bahu Jammu on Friday evening. Official sources told GNS that at around 1805 hours, a scarpio vehicle (JK02CD-0799) parked at Qasim Nagar was fired upon with pistol. There was no loss of life […]
New Delhi: The Indian Army has been losing more personnel every year in suicides, fratricides and untoward incidents than in any enemy action and over half of its soldiers seem to be under severe stress presently, said a study by think tank United Service Institution of India (USI). “Prolonged exposure of Indian Army personnel to […]
Islamabad: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has handed death sentences to three people for social media posts deemed insulting to Prophet Muhammad under the country’s blasphemy laws. A fourth accused, a college teacher, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a “blasphemous” lecture he had delivered in the classroom, court official Istifamul Haq told […]
Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday banned the import of poultry until January 14 a day after the Centre issued advisories asking local authorities to keep a close vigil to contain the spread of avian influenza or bird flu. The Centre on Wednesday said the outbreak has been reported from at least four states. Officials […]
