New Delhi: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has strongly objected the new WhatsApp privacy policy through which all kinds of personal data, payment transactions, contacts, location and other vital information of a person who is using WhatsApp will be acquired by it and can be used for any purpose by WhatsApp. In a […]
Srinagar: “I still have faith in the Supreme Court of India,” says former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah in an interview to The Wire, put up by the website on Saturday evening. But he is also anguished, he adds, at the court’s ‘complete, inexplicable and mind boggling’ lack of urgency in dealing with petitions challenging […]
Srinagar: Fog and frost on Sunday affected the pedestrian and vehicular movement in Jammu and Kashmir as the weather office said there would be improvement as the day advances. “Yesterday’s circulation still persists, but it will move away from J&K as the day advances”, an official of the local meteorological (MeT) department said. The 40-day […]
Jakarta: Eleven people were killed, 17 injured and 14 others were reported missing as landslides struck Indonesia’s West Java province, a senior disaster agency official said on Sunday. Heavy downpours triggered the landslides at Cihanjuan village of Sumedang district at about 4 p.m. on Saturday, burying eight people, head of Emergency Unit of Provincial Disaster […]
Islamabad: Pakistan was hit by a massive power blackout early Sunday, officials said, with much of the country, including all major cities, plunged into darkness. The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex — and delicate — web, and a problem in one section of the grid […]
Lahore: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has asked the Counter Terrorism Department of Punjab Police to arrest banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar by January 18 in a terror financing case, a court official said on Saturday. The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala issued an arrest warrant against Azhar in the terror financing case instituted by […]
New Delhi: India will launch its Covid-19 vaccination drive on January 16 and priority will be given to nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers, the government said on Saturday. The decision was taken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the status of Covid-19 situation and vaccine preparedness. “After the detailed review, it was decided that in […]
JUNAID GULZAR Shopian: Congress Block President Imamsahib appealed district administration Shopian to put all of its men and machinery in force so as to provide timely relief to common masses ahead of heavy snowfall going on in kashmir particularly in Imamsahib villages like Nadigam, Tulran, Handew, Narwani, Losedanow, Kadgam, Chitterwach and many more villages which […]
Sopore: Sopore police on saturday evening claimed to have arrested five LeT militants associates in Sopore North Kashmir Baramulla district. While acting on a specific human /technical inputs , Sopore Police/ Security forces arrested five OGW’s of LeT outfit with incriminating materials, identified as Khursheed Ahmad Lone S/O Abdul Rehman Lone R/O Nowpora Jagir Kreeri […]
Amritsar: Within 24 hours of their arrest, the Border Security Force (BSF) handed over six Pakistani nationals to the Pakistan Rangers on Saturday evening. They had inadvertently crossed over to India from the International Border (IB) near Moran village on Friday evening. For the first time in years, that so many Pakistani nationals strayed into […]