Israel has asked Facebook and TikTok to ditch what it calls posts that incite violence on the platforms as the regime’s war machine breathes fire on the besieged Gaza Strip. Benny Gantz, who is Israel’s minister of military affairs as well as justice minister, urged executives of the American technology conglomerate, Facebook, and the Chinese-owned […]
SRINAGAR – The Jammu and Kashmir Police Saturday arrested 21 people for organising demonstrations in support of the Palestinian struggle. The police said it is keeping a close watch on elements attempting to leverage the situation in Palestine to disturb peace and order in the Valley. According to police sources, 21 people were arrested across […]
SRINAGAR – Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday evening arrested two sons of late Ashraf Sehrai, Hurriyat Chairman who died at GMC Jammu hospital while facing detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) on May 5. Family sources told News Agency Kashmir Dot Com that the two sons of late Ashraf Sehrai, who passed away after […]
NEW DELHI – India’s tally of cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has reached 24,684,077 as the country logged 311,170 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) dashboard showed on Sunday morning. The daily fatalities due to Covid-19 were recorded at 4,077 taking the overall related death […]
SRINAGAR – Central University Jammu (CUJ) Professor Dr Dharmendra Singh, Head & Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communications & New Media, died of Covid-19 at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital Jaipur. Registrar Central University Jammu while confirming his death said Singh was a luminary and his death is a great loss to the University particularly to the […]
SRINAGAR – Eminent Professor and senior scientist who was presently serving as senior Professor at Department of Electronics Kashmir University Prof. Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat passed away at Rainawari Hospital Srinagar due to Covid-19 complications. His colleagues said he had been admitted at JLNM hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 two weeks ago, but due to […]
GAZA CITY – An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Friday, the latest step by the military to silence reporting from the territory amid its battle with the militant group Hamas. The strike came nearly an hour after the military […]
SRINAGAR – The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said that official figures of Covid-19 deaths are an underestimate as many deaths due to the virus go unreported in the valley. “The actual number of people dying from Covid is higher than what is reported,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. […]
NEW DELHI – Former Union health minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, suggesting measures to increase COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in the country, party officials said. In his letter, a copy of which has also been sent to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Azad has also […]
SRINAGAR – A 35-year-old man from Kund belt of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district was found hanging in a rented accommodation in Upper Bazar area of Qazigund on Saturday. An official told that the man identified as Shabir Ahmad Naikoo (35) son of Sonaullah Naikoo, a resident of Waripora Kund was found hanging at Upper Bazar […]