NEW DELHI — In an incident that shows that Twitter can withdraw the blue verified badge against any verified account irrespective of the importance of the position of the account holder, the social media platform removed the blue badge from the personal Twitter handle of Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu, @MVenkaiahNaidu, on Saturday. […]
WASHINGTON — The head of China’s Wuhan virology lab, also called as the ‘bat woman’, and an expert from the University of North Carolina in the US, had in a paper published in 2015 flagged the dangers of their gain-of-function experiment of a novel coronavirus which could infect human cells, media reports said. In the […]
SRINAGAR — The body of Noorbagh youth, who had jumped into river Jhelum near cement bridge on May 31, was fished out on Saturday morning near Maloora area of Tenghoora. Quoting an official news agency Kashmir News Observer reported that the body of the youth identified as Kaiser Hussain son of Ashiq Hussain Dar, resident […]
SRINAGAR — With a view to ensure proper monitoring of Covid-19 positive patients in home isolation, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has distributed close to 46000 Covid management kits among coronavirus infected patients in the Union Territory. The LG administration had announced that the government will be reaching out to Covid-19 patients in home isolation […]
ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that Pakistan is ready to restart talks with India if Delhi provides a roadmap towards restoring the previous status of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. In 2019, India withdrew Indian-ruled Kashmir’s autonomy in order to tighten its grip over the territory, sparking outrage in Pakistan, […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that the country has been pushing for political settlement before foreign troops leave this year in order to reduce the risk of civil war. The US has said that it will withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan on September 11 this year. More than 20 allied […]
WASHINGTON — Facebook says it will suspend former President Donald Trump’s accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. “At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. We will evaluate external factors, […]
SRINAGAR — The J&K is all set to have its own International Urdu News gathering agency and to supply news to all media houses across the globe. The first International News Agency to function from Srinagar will have 24*7 working team to break the news and update the readers across the globe. The development is […]
One left behind 3 daughters, other 6-month-old baby girl, 5-year-old son PULWAMA — Covid-19, the deadly pandemic which has claimed over 4000 lives in Jammu and Kashmir has also left several families in dire straits as main lost their sole bread earner. One such lone bread earner was Showkat Ahmad, a 40-year old businessman from […]
NEW DELHI — The DCGI has granted permission to the Serum Institute of India (SII) to manufacture the Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine in India for examination, test and analysis with certain conditions, official sources said. The Pune-based firm has collaborated with Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow in Russia for developing Sputnik V at […]