SRINAGAR — Parsa Mufti became the first Kashmiri, who has been selected for Schwarzman Scholars, one of the most selective courses in the world funded by American Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman. According to a press release, Schwarzman Scholar is one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships in the world. Parsa Mufti is the first person […]
NEW DELHI — India has emerged as a poor and “very unequal” country, according to the latest report released by the World Inequality Lab. The bottom half of the Indian population owns “almost nothing” of the national wealth, claimed the report authored by senior economists including France’s Thomas Piketty. In 2021, the top one percent […]
LUCKNOW — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reached out to farmers, claiming the Centre had insulated them from the sudden spurt in international fertiliser and urea prices by providing subsidies worth Rs 76,000 crore. Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating the Rs 8,600-crore Gorakhpur fertiliser factory, Modi said soil nutrients NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium) […]
ISLAMABAD — Famed Pakistani vocalist Aima Baig is on cloud nine as she has been named as Spotify’s most streamed local female artists in Pakistan for 2021 list. The Baazi famed singer, who rose to fame with her debut track Kalabaaz Dil, turned to her Instagram and shared her biggest achievement. Sharing the post, the Item Number crooner […]
LONDON — Following up first doses of the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines with second doses of the Moderna or Novavax jabs generates robust immune response against Covid-19, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK found that no safety concerns were […]
SRINAGAR — In a sorry state of affairs, the Power Development Department (PDD) has turned a blind eye towards the recovery of a whopping Rs 5.50 crore electricity dues from an influential industrialist, who was running an electric arc furnace section in his factory in Lassipora industrial estate in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. According to […]
KOLKATA — Another member of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s family has made her entry into West Bengal politics. Mamata’s sister-in-law, Kajari Banerjee, will be a candidate in the Kolkata civic body polls on 19 December. She will be contesting on a Trinamool Congress (TMC) ticket from Ward 73, where Mamata resides. A social worker by […]
WASHINGTON — Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues with Amazon Web Services, the company said in […]
JAMMU — Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta today chaired a meeting to review the functioning of the School Education Department and progress achieved under various schemes during the ongoing financial year. Administrative Secretaries of the departments of Finance, School Education, besides Directors School Education, Jammu/Kashmir, and Director, Samagra Shiksha participated in the meeting. It […]
JAMMU — Asking BJP led government to stop spreading hatred by pitching people against people on religious lines, National Conference chief Dr Farooq Abdullah Tuesday said that his father Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah had acceded to “Gandhi’s India not Godse’s” India and situation will continue to remain grime in J&K unless what has been snatch is […]