CAIRO – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has announced the allocation of $500 million for reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip. El-Sissi’s office said in a Facebook post Tuesday that Egyptian firms would contribute in the re-building efforts. Egypt, which is leading mediation efforts to reach a cease-fire, has sent some two dozen trucks carrying […]
SRINAGAR – Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) apprehended two persons from Srinagar’s Batamaloo area on Tuesday morning and recovered brown sugar like substance from them. Sources told that a team from CIK led by Inspector Sajad Ahmed after receiving specific input, intercepted a load carrier (JK02BG 2430) and after frisking the two persons on board including […]
NEW DELHI – The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Tuesday said that 269 doctors across the country have lost their lives due to COVID-19 infection in the second wave of coronavirus pandemic. The IMA said Bihar suffered the largest number of casualties (78) followed by Uttar Pradesh (37) and Delhi (28). State-wise data by IMA […]
PULWAMA – A non-local inmate at Sub-Jail Pulwama who had been arrested in connection with a drug case died in Pulwama hospital. Official sources told that an accused felt unconscious at Sub-Jail Pulwama. He was shifted to District Hospital Pulwama where doctors declared him dead. The deceased identified as Harpinder Singh son of Harbajan Singh, […]
SRINAGAR – Men allegedly employed by Hyderabad based infrastructure firm ‘Megha Engineering Infrastructure’ which is the executive agency for the construction of Zojila Tunnel were caught by a team of Irrigation and Flood Control Department when they were busy in extracting sand and boulders from Nallah Sindh near Nilgrath area of Sonmarg here in Central […]
SRINAGAR – The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday decided to release jail inmates in the union territory on 90 days interim bail in view of the Supreme Court directions. A high-powered committee, headed by High Court Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, took the decision to release all the jail inmates as per the directions […]
ANKARA – Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said US President Joe Biden had “bloody hands” because of his support for Israel in the raging conflict in the Gaza Strip. The Turkish president’s comments represented one of his strongest attacks on Biden since his arrival in the White House in January. Erdogan had spent the […]
NEW DELHI – India registered 263,533 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s infection tally past the 25 million mark to 25,228,996, the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) dashboard showed on Tuesday morning. Also, in this period, 4,329 lives were lost to the viral disease, […]
WASHINGTON – As the Biden administration approved a $735 million arms sale to Israel, some lawmakers are questioning whether the deal could be used as leverage amid the ongoing bombing of the Gaza Strip, the Washington Post reported. According to the newspaper, Congress was officially notified of the proposed sale on May 5, just a […]
BUDGAM – Police have arrested four family members in connection with the death of a woman in Central Kashmir’s Charar-e-Sharif area of Budgam. Pertinently, during the sacred night of ‘Qadar’, a woman was found hanging in the premises of her husband’s home at Darwan Nowgam area of Charar-e-Sharif. Prima facie it seemed a case of […]