SRINAGAR — Srinagar Municipal Corporation received 1210 applications for building permission since the Joint Commissioner Planning Ghulam Hasan Mir assumed charge on 17 February 2020. The official data which is in possession of news agency Kashmir News Trust reveals that out of these 1210 applications, permission has been granted to 834 applicants while 39 applications […]
NEW DELHI — India on Saturday logged 1,20,529 new Covid infections in 24 hours, the lowest since April 7. During the same time span, 3,380 more people succumbed to the pandemic, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. The fatalities witnessed a spike, crossing 3,000 mark on Saturday once again after recording over 2,000 […]
RAMBAN — At least three persons were killed while two others were injured and another went missing in a road accident in Digdole area of Ramban district on Saturday morning. Quoting officials news agency Kashmir News Observer reported that a passenger vehicle carrying at least six persons fell into a gorge near Digdole. In the […]
LEH — A truck met with an accident in the mountainous pass of Leh resulting into the death of the driver and injuries to the Conductor. Both the driver and the conductor (cousins) hail from Haknar Gund area of Kangan town in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. The accident occurred at Fotu-La Pass when the driver […]
NEW DELHI — In an incident that shows that Twitter can withdraw the blue verified badge against any verified account irrespective of the importance of the position of the account holder, the social media platform removed the blue badge from the personal Twitter handle of Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu, @MVenkaiahNaidu, on Saturday. […]
WASHINGTON — The head of China’s Wuhan virology lab, also called as the ‘bat woman’, and an expert from the University of North Carolina in the US, had in a paper published in 2015 flagged the dangers of their gain-of-function experiment of a novel coronavirus which could infect human cells, media reports said. In the […]
SRINAGAR — The body of Noorbagh youth, who had jumped into river Jhelum near cement bridge on May 31, was fished out on Saturday morning near Maloora area of Tenghoora. Quoting an official news agency Kashmir News Observer reported that the body of the youth identified as Kaiser Hussain son of Ashiq Hussain Dar, resident […]
SRINAGAR — With a view to ensure proper monitoring of Covid-19 positive patients in home isolation, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has distributed close to 46000 Covid management kits among coronavirus infected patients in the Union Territory. The LG administration had announced that the government will be reaching out to Covid-19 patients in home isolation […]
ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that Pakistan is ready to restart talks with India if Delhi provides a roadmap towards restoring the previous status of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. In 2019, India withdrew Indian-ruled Kashmir’s autonomy in order to tighten its grip over the territory, sparking outrage in Pakistan, […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that the country has been pushing for political settlement before foreign troops leave this year in order to reduce the risk of civil war. The US has said that it will withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan on September 11 this year. More than 20 allied […]