UNITED NATIONS – The humanitarian community has welcomed the ceasefire agreed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel but warned that the destruction in Gaza will take years, if not decades, to fix. Speaking from Gaza, Matthias Schmale from the UN relief agency for Palestinians UNRWA, said that there was no “going back to normal” […]
‘No security in place, people distribute cylinders on their own’ SRINAGAR – Scuffle broke out between the attendants at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital on Saturday when they were distributing the oxygen cylinders themselves in the absence of proper arrangements by the authorities. Official sources informed that no security arrangements have been put in […]
NEW DELHI – The daily rise in coronavirus cases in India remained below the 3 lakh-mark for the sixth consecutive day, with 2.57 lakh new cases recorded in a single day, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. With the fresh cases, India’s tally of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,62,89,290. The death toll due to […]
NEW DELHI – India said on Friday it was working to alleviate a shortage of a medicine used to treat a rare fungal disease hitting Covid-19 patients as its healthcare system reels under a massive wave of coronavirus infections. Cases of mucormycosis, or “black fungus,” a potentially serious condition that causes blurred or double vision, […]
THE HAGUE – The owner of a Gaza building housing international media that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike is lodging a complaint with the International Criminal Court, his lawyer said. The complaint by Jawad Mehdi says that the attack on May 15 which flattened Jala Tower, housing the offices of US news agency Associated […]
SRINAGAR – Police on Saturday placed under suspension two officials and initiated an inquiry against SHO concerned after a video, purported to be of a police interrogation into murder of a man from Pattan area of north Kashmir in March this year, was circulated on social media. Police had arrested wife of the man and […]
ANKARA – Turkey has strongly condemned Israel for attacking Muslim worshippers during Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. “We strongly condemn Israel’s attacks against the congregation after Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first qibla of Muslims, despite the cease-fire that went into effect yesterday,” Turkey’s Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said in a statement. […]
ISLAMABAD – E-commerce giant Amazon has added Pakistan to its sellers’ list making Pakistani entrepreneurs eligible to sell on the platform, the Commerce Ministry announced on Friday. The ministry said that Pakistani manufacturers would gain access to a worldwide e-commerce platform with Amazon and it would open up a new chapter of the supply chain […]
OTTAWA – Canada has extended its ban on passenger flights from India and Pakistan by 30 days to June 21 as part of a campaign to fight COVID-19, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said on Friday. Alghabra said Canada had seen “a significant reduction” in coronavirus infections among arriving airline passengers since Ottawa first announced the […]
JAMMU – With health experts warning that children are likely to be more affected in the third wave of Covid-19, Jammu and Kashmir government has designated two pediatric wards as Covid wards for children. Dr Dara Singh, Medical Superintendent at SMGS hospital in Jammu said that as of now two wards have been designated as […]