NEW DELHI — The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has included the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh under the category of ‘Hard Areas’ for the joint AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territories) cadre for IAS and IPS officers. The categorisation, which was brought in by an 18 January amendment to the earlier […]
NEW DELHI — Vijay Rawat, brother of India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who recently died in a helicopter crash, joined the BJP on Wednesday. The BJP may field him as its candidate in poll-bound Uttarakhand, sources said. Vijay Rawat, who retired as a colonel from the army, joined the BJP in […]
SOPORE — Despite strict orders by the government for closure of schools and private coaching institutions amid rise in Covid-19 cases, several schools and private coaching institutions continue to function normally in Sopore town of Baramulla district, parents alleged here on Wednesday. Several parents expressed concern over functioning of private schools and coaching institutions despite […]
Peerzada Zubair SRINAGAR — Jammu based Rj Simran, and Kashmir’s Rj Umar Nisar Attended UNICEF Conference to understand the role of Radio to strengthen It’s initiatives including JalJeevanMission – ‘Har Ghar Jal’ Rj Simran also known as ‘Jammu Ki Dhadkan’ officially working with Radio Mirchi 98.3 and Kashmir’s Umar Nisar, also known as ‘Radio boy […]
DUBAI — No Indian has been named in the ICC T20I Team of 2021 and Babar Azam of Pakistan has been named as the captain of the side. The Pakistan skipper was at his classy best in the shortest format in 2021, leaving his best at the T20 World Cup where he ended the tournament […]
GENEVA — The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed on Wednesday (Jan 19), adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weather phenomenon. “The warmest seven years have all been since 2015,” the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement. […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has decided to compensate the 36 Chinese nationals, who died and were injured in a terrorist attack last year — aimed at removing a major irritant in bilateral relations, Express Tribune reported. A total of 10 Chinese national lost their lives and another 26 were hurt in a suicide attack on a […]
JAMMU — Police in Ramban had been carrying wide scale searches around Ramsu area of the mountainous district from last couple of days to locate three members of Lucknow family after receiving a social media message that the trio was “incommunicado” having got stuck there. However as the facts surfaced, all three of them had […]
NEW DELHI — Sania Mirza, India’s first women’s tennis superstar, announced her retirement on Wednesday, saying that the 2022 season will be her last. The famed tennis player, who is an idol for many, made the announcement after her opening-round loss in women’s doubles event at the ongoing Australian Open and said that she feels […]
NEW DELHI — India’s civil aviation regulator, the DGCA, on Wednesday extended the ban on scheduled international commercial flights till February 28, 2022. At present, India suffers from a third Covid wave which is said to be driven by the Omicron variant. In a notification, the DGCA extended the ban on scheduled international commercial flights […]