SRINAGAR – A family from Hyderpora area of Srinagar city Thursday appealed Inspector General of Police to personally intervene and get the ‘murderer’ arrested. The aggrieved family alleged that Parimpora Police Station is resorting to dilly dally tactics and is not arresting the murder accused. Bilal Ahmed Beigh, a resident of Gulshan Abad Hyderpora arrived […]
SRINAGAR – Dr Tarannum Riyaz, a noted Urdu fiction writer and wife of former Kashmir University Vice Chancellor, Riyaz Punjabi, passed away on Thursday. The family sources told local daily that Dr Tarannum died at a hospital in New Delhi at around 9.30am today. She had tested positive for Covid19 and was put on a […]
KUPWARA – The Jammu and Kashmir Police Tuesday claimed to have arrested two persons along with 6 live grenades in main market in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. A police spokesman in a statement, said that based on a specific information regarding the movement of some individuals, Kupwara Police established a special Naka in Kupwara main […]
URI – Police with the help of locals fished out the dead body of a shepherd who was drowned in a nallah while grazing the cattle in Uri area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Quoting police sources news agency Kashmir News Trust reported that a shepherd slipped and fell into Jabla nallah in Uri when […]
GAZA CITY – The Gaza Strip’s already feeble health system is being brought to its knees by the fourth war in just over a decade. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with waves of dead and wounded from Israel’s bombardment. Many vital medicines are rapidly running out in the tiny, blockaded coastal territory, as is fuel to […]
NEW DELHI – India recorded 276,110 new cases of the coronavius disease (Covid-19) in a 24-hour span, the Union health ministry data showed on Thursday morning. The total tally of the viral infection now stands at 25,772,440. Thursday’s numbers show India continues to maintain a downward trend in daily Covid-19 cases after the number of […]
NEW DELHI – India’s second wave of Covid-19 is expected to decline by July this year. A third wave of the pandemic is expected in about six to eight months. These are the fairly optimistic projections made by the three-member panel of scientists set up by the Department of Science and Technology under the Science […]
GAZA – A senior Hamas official predicted a ceasefire within days even as Israel and Gaza militants pursued their cross-border attacks into an 11th day on Thursday with Israeli warplanes carrying out new air strikes and Palestinians firing more rockets. U.S. President Joe Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek a “de-escalation” on Wednesday […]
SRINAGAR – Social activist Peer Tehleel Manzoor along with Chandigarh Youth Congress launched Cyber Safety awareness campaign in Chandigarh and Mohali cities. “The campaign will raise awareness on cyber crimes and safety, particularly among Punjab youth,” said Vinayak Bangia State General Secretary Chandigarh Territorial Youth Congress. “The campaign will empower citizens to not only identify […]
NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval ratings have fallen to a new low, two surveys showed, as the country struggles to contain a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Modi, who swept to power in 2014 and was re-elected in 2019 with the biggest majority of any Indian politician in three […]