SRINAGAR – Jailed senior separatist leader and chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai died at the government medical college in Jammu where he was transferred from prison on Tuesday. The 80-year old politician had been lodged in Kot Balwal Jail in Jammu since he was booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in July last […]
SRINAGAR – Authorities on Wednesday ordered deferment of all elective and routine surgeries in Government as well as Private Health Institutions in Kashmir division amid continuing upsurge in covid-19. “In view of prevailing situation of Covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir Division which demands optimal utilization of available resources so that the existing infrastructure/ healthcare facilities are […]
SRINAGAR – Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai who was facing detention under Public safety Act (PSA) passed away after a brief illness at GMC in Jammu. Official sources told that Hurriyat chairman Ashraf Sehrai who was admitted at GMC in Jammu on yesterday after his health started deteriorating at Kot Bhalwal jail, where was facing […]
BAMAKO – A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday – two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb – joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets. The pregnancy of Halima Cisse, 25, has fascinated the West African nation and attracted the attention of its leaders. When doctors in March […]
MUMBAI – RBI on Wednesday said the second purchase of government securities worth Rs 35,000 crore under the G-sec Acquisition Programme (G-SAP 1.0) will be done on May 20 for an orderly evolution of the yield curve as a fresh COVID-19 wave threatens to hit the economy. The first purchase of Rs 25,000 crore last […]
MAKKAH – The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques has documented Hajar Al-Aswad or the Black Stone at Kaaba with a Focus Stack Panorama in 49,000 megapixel image. The presidency said in a statement on its Twitter account that specially processed high-resolution images have been captured of the Black Stone, the […]
NEW DELHI – A record 3,780 fresh COVID-19 fatalities were registered in a single day in India taking the death toll to 2,26,188, while 3,82,315 few coronavirus infections were recorded, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. With the fresh cases, the total tally of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to […]
UNITED NATIONS – General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir has said that the status of Jammu and Kashmir should not be changed while acknowledging the 1972 Simla Agreement between India and Pakistan making it a bilateral issue. “I call on all parties to refrain from taking steps that could affect the status of Jammu and Kashmir,” […]
HYDERABAD – National Covid-19 Supermodel Committee has said that it could not predict the exact nature of the second wave of the pandemic in India. The panel, however, is continuing its efforts to better estimate its future trajectory. The committee comprising three scientists working on the SUTRA model for charting the trajectory of Covid-19, denied […]
NEW DELHI – More than half of the people are upset, angry and depressed or worried about the way the second wave of Covid-19 is handled by the government while opinion is split on whether the country is on the right track in controlling the pandemic, a survey has claimed. At the same time, a […]