DHAKA — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday secured a record fourth straight term as her Awami League party won two-thirds of the seats in the general elections marred by sporadic violence and a boycott by the main opposition BNP and its allies. Hasina’s party won 200 seats in the 300-seat parliament while counting […]
KOLKATA — West Bengal minister and senior TMC leader Chandrima Bhattacharya on Sunday filed a police complaint against BJP leader Amit Malviya for allegedly making ‘defamatory’ remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Bhattacharya’s police complaint was in response to Malviya’s post on X where he claimed that absconding TMC leader Sahajahan Sheikh, the […]
NEW DELHI — Researchers have found that changes in blood flow in the retina could influence visual symptoms of some migraine patients, a new study has said. According to the study published in the journal Headache, the findings could represent a long-sought observable marker for migraines that doctors can use to aid in the clinical […]
SRINAGAR — In a significant political development, senior politician Muzaffar Beigh and his wife, DDC Chairperson Baramulla, Safina Beigh, rejoined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Bijbehara graveyard on the death anniversary of PDP founder late Mufti Mohammad Syed here on Sunday. Party sources told Srinagar based news gathering agency Kashmir Dot Com that […]
SRINAGAR — The opposition INDIA alliance partners will discuss seat-sharing in Jammu and Kashmir for the Lok Sabha elections when the polls are announced, senior Congress leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir said on Saturday. The people of J&K and Ladakh are ready to give all six seats to the INDIA alliance, said Mir, who is the […]
JAMMU — A couple and their three-month-old child died on Saturday when their SUV veered off the road and fell into a 400-foot-deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, police said. One person sustained serious injuries in the incident, they said. Around 12:45 pm, a Bolero Camper that was on its way to Chassana […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Saturday said that he is personally monitoring the electricity supply on the daily basis in the UT while Srinagar has emerged as a role model for the rest of the country. Addressing a function in Srinagar, LG said that he personally monitors the electricity supply on […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The weather is expected to remain generally dry and cold in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir till January 14, the Meteorological Department (MeT) said on Saturday. An official of the Meteorological Department (MeT) said, “The weather is expected to remain generally dry in Jammu and Kashmir till January 8.” “Similar […]
SRINAGAR [Raouf Dar] (KIMS) — The General Administration Department (GAD) of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered Administrative Secretaries and Officers to conduct Public Darbars in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Department has ordered 20 officers including Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and an Indian Police Service […]
TEL AVIV — The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said that most of the children and pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are not able to meet their basic nutrition needs. A survey conducted by the UN body UNICEF found that 90 per cent of children under age 2 are eating two […]