JOHANNESBURG — South African experts have expressed concern about the rising number of COVID-19 infections among young children, even as the country recorded a further 16,055 infections and 25 deaths overnight on Friday, PTI reported. “We have always seen children not being heavily affected by the Covid epidemic in the past (and) not having many […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Friday agreed to let India transport 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat and life-saving drugs as humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan on Afghan trucks through the Wagah border crossing, after a row erupted between the two countries over the modalities of transportation. On Thursday, India said that discussions with Pakistan […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar Friday protested against the authorities’ decision of continuously barring Muslims from performing important religious duty of offering Friday prayers at Jama Masjid Srinagar. Anjuman in a statement said that once again today the men, women and elderly people who came from various parts of the Valley were deprived […]
JAMMU — Additional Director General of Police for Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh Friday said that starlink satellite train was seen over sky in areas of Jammu which people mistook as mysterious light of an aerial object and there was no need to panic. ADG of Police, Mukesh Singh said that starlink train of satellites have […]
SRINAGAR — Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights today made public the “communication to India on multiple alleged acts of intimidation of journalists.” The communication was in context to the harrassment of 2 Kashmir based journalists Qazi Shibli and Aakash Hassan and an Indian province Bihar’s journalist Chandrabhushan Tiwari. “On 1 October […]
JAMMU — Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday said that PDP sought votes from people of Jammu and Kashmir to keep BJP away but later the same party entered into an alliance with the BJP in 2018 and the results are well before the masses. He said perhaps J-K is the only place that […]
SRINAGAR — Government on Friday ordered that there will be online interaction of teaching faculty with students through “whatsapp group or Google-meet etc” at least once in a week during the ensuing winter vacations in Kashmir Valley and winter zone of Jammu division. According to a formal order issued by the Principal Secretary School Education […]
JAMMU — A mysterious long-trail of light in the air in parts of Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu region Friday spread panic among the local people with security forces on toes to find out what the twinkling object in the sky was all about. Eye witnesses and official sources said that in the parts […]
SRINAGAR — An army personnel was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside Badami Bagh cantonment army camp here, officials said on Friday evening. They told local news agency GNS that Anuj Singh son of Prem Chand resident of Bihar was found dead at a store room inside the army camp. The deceased belonged to Kilo […]
SRINAGAR — As the possibility of holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir is picking up pace, the political parties are returning to their old avatar of maligning each other in the recent rallies and interaction with the media. In the past one month, all the prominent leaders from across the political parties are accusing […]