SRINAGAR — Weatherman on Friday forecast intermittent light to moderate rain at widespread places and light snowfall from night Saturday night till Sunday evening. Under the influence of the weather, an official of the local meteorological office here said that there could be landslides and shooting stones over vulnerable areas of Srinagar-Jammu and Srinagar-Leh Highways […]
NEW DELHI — Mridul Agarwal from the Delhi zone has topped the IIT entrance exam, JEE Advanced, the results of which were announced on Friday. Agarwal scored 348 out of 360 marks in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced. A total of 41,862 candidates have qualified in JEE Advanced this year, of whom 6,452 are […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) suspended flights to Kabul over the “unprofessional attitude” of Taliban authorities. “Our flights frequently faced undue delays because of the unprofessional attitude of the Kabul aviation authorities,” Abdullah Hafeez Khan, the PIA spokesman told AFP. The route will remain suspended until “the situation becomes conducive,” he added. In a separate […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS), a non-migrant Kashmiri Pandit organisation, Thursday said that despite the targeted killings in the Valley, they will not migrate and continue to live with their Muslim brethren the way they have been since 1990. “The level of fear was high in the past few weeks owing to the […]
NEW DELHI — A 35-year-old man was brutally murdered at the Singhu border outside Delhi. His body was found hanging from a barricade near the main stage of protesting farmers on Friday morning, with a chopped-off hand. The incident has already caused a huge outrage among the farmers who were initially not allowing the police […]
SRINAGAR — A 27-year-old youth was killed after he was hit by a train at Nowgam Railway Station on Friday. Official sources told that Feroz Ahmad Malla, 27, son of Fayaz Ahmad Malla of New Colony Samarbugh Lasjan was hit by train at Nowgam railway station. He was taken to Srinagar’s SMHS hospital for treatment […]
DHAKA — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday evening vowed to hunt down those who vandalised some Hindu temples during Durga Puja celebrations. Three people were killed and several others injured during clashes between Muslim bigots and the police at Hajiganj sub-district in Chandpur, bordering Cumilla, on Wednesday, while a fourth person succumbed to […]
NEW YORK — Microsoft on Thursday said it will shut down career-oriented social network LinkedIn in China, citing a “challenging operating environment” as Beijing tightens control over tech firms. The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features, according to senior vice president […]
ISLAMABAD — Babar Azam, the Pakistani captain has said that his side will defeat arch-rivals India in its opening clash of the T20 World Cup as it is more familiar with the conditions, having played mostly in the UAE for the past three-four years, Press Trust of India reported. Pakistan will take on India at […]
AMBALA — Police on Thursday said it arrested an Army personnel for allegedly passing secret information to Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. Rohit Kumar was arrested on Wednesday evening on a tip-off, it said. Kumar is a resident of Kodwa Khurd village in the Naraingarh area in Ambala district. Currently, he is employed as Havaldar in […]