NEW DELHI — India logged 71,365 new coronavirus infections taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,24,10,976, while the active cases declined to 8,92,828, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,05,279 with 1,217 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active […]
NEW DELHI — Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has weighed in on the controversy over Muslim students alleging that they were not allowed to enter campuses and classrooms wearing the hijab in Karnataka. The girls’ education activist tweeted that “refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying” and “leaders must stop the […]
JAMMU — Over 50 youths were detained Tuesday after they blocked the vital Tawi bridge in the heart of the city, demanding the early conduct of written examination for the posts of Jammu and Kashmir Police Border Battalion advertised in 2019, officials said. The protesters were also angry over the recent re-advertisement of the posts […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted two militant modules of Jaish-e-Muhammad in Anantnag by arresting 11 accused persons including three hybrid militants. Police said that incriminating materials including arms and ammunition have been recovered from their possession. A police spokesman in a statement said that based on credible inputs […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday said that it has arrested a resident from Budgam district of Central Kashmir in connection with a case regarding Al-Qaeda’s plans of triggering an IED blast in Lucknow city. In a statement on February 7, 2022, NIA arrested one accused person namely Tawheed Ahmad Shah S/o Bashir Ahmad […]
JAMMU — Terming delimitation exercise as a grave injustice with several areas in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress party on Tuesday said that no ground parameters have been taken care of by the delimitation process. The party also said that the reservation criteria has also been thrown to the wind with constituencies under reservation since decades […]
SRINAGAR — The Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) is all set to hold a meeting on February 23, to discuss the recent draft put forth by the Delimitation Commission. Sources within the PAGD said the conglomerate will meet on Feb 23 in Srinagar at its president Dr Farooq Abdullah’s Gupkar residence. They said that […]
SRINAGAR — Under the much-hyped smart metering project, the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) is all set to install almost 58,000 smart meters in the first phase across Srinagar. 15000 smart meters will be installed in Srinagar in the ongoing month (February). Sources within the department said that over 11400 smart meters have already […]
SRINAGAR — The delimitation commission’s proposals are expected to be unveiled for suggestions/objections from the general public immediately after February 14, sources disclosed. Officials said that the commission headed by former Supreme Court judge, justice (retd.) Ranjana Desai will publish its proposals for the delimitation of constituencies, together with the dissenting proposals, if any, of […]
SRINAGAR — In the annual regular results of 12th standard for Kashmir division, female students did not give any space to the male candidates to secure the top positions in all four major streams. One of the toppers, Arusa Parvaiz bagged the top position from the Faculty of Science. Arusa, the student of Kashmir Harvard […]