NEW DELHI – The national lockdowns and public health campaigns introduced at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic have reduced the transmission of deadly invasive bacteria that cause respiratory infections — potentially saving thousands of lives, according to a large study published in The Lancet Digital Health on Friday. Diseases caused by invasive bacteria, including […]
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was set on Friday to inaugurate a landmark mosque in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, fulfilling a long-time ambition to build a Muslim house of worship at the city’s main public space that has become an emblem of the modern Turkish Republic. Erdogan was scheduled to join a group of […]
NEW DELHI – India was among 14 countries that abstained from voting on a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council to launch an investigation into alleged violations and crimes during the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The resolution was adopted as 24 countries voted in favour of it while nine opposed […]
KULGAM – Government Forces Friday arrested four youth including a missing youth from Shopian in Kujjar village of Yaripora in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, an official said. An official told that the police along with army’s 1 RR raided Kujjar village of Kulgam and arrested four people including the missing man in Shopian district. “The […]
NEW DELHI – The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki is collaborating with manufacturers to boost production of oxygen generators in the country. Maruti has tied up with three small-scale companies — Airox Nigen Equipments, SAM Gas Products and Gaskon Engineers — for producing oxygen generators. The company on Thursday said that as part of the […]
ANANTNAG – Doctors in a hospital here in South Kashmir have decided to send DNA samples of two newborn female babies for paternity tests after a mother alleged that after the delivery her baby was replaced. The strange incident occurred on Thursday late night at Sub-District Hospital Kokarnag area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Hospital […]
NEW DELHI – India recorded 186,364 case and 3,660 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard on Friday. After Friday’s additions, the overall nationwide tally now stands at 27,555,457, while the death toll has increased to 315,235. For the fifteenth consecutive day, recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new […]
ISLAMABAD – The UN General Assembly (UNGA) president on Thursday called on the parties involved in the Kashmir dispute to refrain from changing the status of the disputed territory. Addressing a news conference along with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the capital Islamabad, UNGA President Volkan Bozkir said he encouraged Pakistan and India […]
SRINAGAR – The government on Thursday approved the appointment of Financial Commissioner, Finance, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta as J&K’s new chief secretary. The Union Home Ministry has approved the appointment of Mehta, an IAS officer of 1988 batch, as J&K’s new chief secretary after BVR Subrahmanyam was moved to New Delhi and posted as officer […]
SRINAGAR – The construction of the much ambitious All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) Thursday hit a major roadblock after army stated that the construction of the institute building compromises the military garrison and the boundary wall of the building touches the common boundary wall of garrison. The army stated this in a review […]