NEW DELHI – India captain Virat Kohli and his wife, actor Anushka Sharma, have donated INR 2 crore (US$ 270,000 approx.) towards a fundraising campaign to aid India’s Covid-19 relief. “Things have been very tough for India, as we fight the pandemic, and it really pains us to see our country suffer like this,” Kohli […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday left for Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit to discuss bilateral relations between the countries. According to Dawn, it is expected that Khan’s visit will serve to improve “strained” relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that were shaken in the recent past due to several reasons. […]
SRINAGAR – Police on Friday said that it has arrested a rape accused from Pattan area in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Police in a statement said, “On 6th May, Police Post Mirgund received a written complaint from Gh Mohammad Dar S/O Abdul Rehman Dar R/O Odina Pattan stating that his 14-year-old minor daughter (name withheld) […]
NEW DELHI – Asserting that the COVID-19 pandemic situation is going from bad to worse, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan are refusing to own responsibility and are making a “mockery of democratic principles”. His remarks came after the Union Health Ministry data […]
SRINAGAR – Jumu’atul-Wida, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramzan, is being observed on Friday, 7 May 2021. The word Jumu’atul-Wida is an Arabic word which in English means, ‘Friday of Farewell’. As per Islam, Fridays (Jumma) are consider one of the most sacred day of a week. But Jumu’atul-Wida, the last Friday […]
Sheikh Nadeem ANANTNAG – The 19 RR of Indian Army Dialgaam COB organised an Covid-19 awareness cum Free mask and sanitizer distribution camp. It was organised in Jammu and Kashmir’s Palapora area of Anantnag district under theme of “SWASTH RAHO AUR KHUSH RAHO”. Large number of people marked their presence in the camp.On this occasion, […]
NEW DELHI – The India National Supermodel Committee suggested that the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 cases could peak as early as May 7, or at the very most, by the end of fifteen days. At the start of this week alone, India saw 3,52,991 (3.52 lakh) COVID-19 infections and 2,812 fatalities with 28,13,658 (28.13 […]
NEW DELHI – India set another global record for daily coronavirus cases Friday, registering over 414,000 infections in the past 24 hours. It marked the second consecutive day the country registered over 400,000 cases after reporting 412,262 infections Thursday. Health Ministry figures show there were 414,188 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s […]
KABUL – A day after the Taliban issued a threat against the media persons, a high-profile television journalist was shot dead in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city on Thursday. Nemat Rawan, a former anchor of the country’s leading broadcaster and a media official at the Ministry of Finance, was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in […]
SRINAGAR – All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday appealed to the people of Jammu and Kashmir living across the divide to observe the Jummatul Vida (Last Friday of Ramadhan-ul-Mubarak, May 7, 2021) as Youm-ul-Quds and Youm-e-Kashmir. In a statement, APHC said that the illegal occupation of Masjid Al Aqsa […]