NEW DELHI — All 5G enabled smartphones, except Apple’s iPhones, will start supporting Airtel 5G services by the middle of this month, a senior Bharti Airtel official said. During the company’s earnings call, Bharti Airtel Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Gopal Vittal said Apple will release the software update in the first week of […]
GANDERBAL — A conductor of JCB died while driver and another person were injured after it skidded off the road at Kokran Bridge on Zoji La in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Wednesday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a JCB skidded off the road when it was coming from Kargil […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological department here predicted light rain and snow at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Light rain/snow at isolated places is likely to occur in J&K during the next 24 hours,” an official of the MeT department said on Wednesday. The weather was mainly cloudy in the […]
SAN FRANCISCO — New Twitter head Elon Musk said Tuesday the site will charge a monthly fee of $8 to users who want a coveted blue tick by their name in a plan he says will solve the site’s bot and troll problems while creating a new revenue stream for the company. The announcement comes […]
TITHWAL (KUPWARA) — A neat white line drawn in the middle of a suspension bridge that sits right on the Line of Control separates the border village of India’s Tithwal and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The bridge has seen wars and tumultuous phases of history in the heavily militarised region. With a ceasefire understanding reached between […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police have averted a major tragedy by arresting three hybrid militants from whose possession a 10-kg IED and two hand grenades were recovered on Tuesday. A police official told that Police arrested two hybrid militants identified as Aamir Mushtaq Dar S/o Mushtaq Ahmad Dar R/o Iqbalabad Sozaith Budgam and Kabil […]
SRINAGAR — Four militants, including a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Commander and a Pakistani militant were killed in two different encounters in South Kashmir on Tuesday. Reports said, on Tuesday afternoon, an encounter broke out between government forces and militants at Semthan village in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district in which a local militant was killed. Later […]
BRISBANE — England rode on fifties from Jos Buttler and Alex Hales, and a superb bowling effort by Sam Curran to register a clinical 20-run win over New Zealand in their Super 12 encounter of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at the Gabba here on Tuesday. With this win, England have now displaced Australia […]
SRINAGAR — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Khandipora village in Awantipora town of Pulwama district in South Kashmir on Tuesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Khandipora village in Awantipora town of Pulwama district following the […]
BRISBANE — Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasaranga grabbed three wickets for 13 runs as the 2014 T20 World Cup champions thrashed Afghanistan by six wickets to keep their hopes — however slim — alive of a semifinal berth here on Tuesday. Thanks to the 25-year-old Hasaranga’s exploits, Afghanistan were restricted to 144/8 before the Islanders […]