WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran “militarily is effectively over,” suggesting that — at least for now – he’s not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated the Islamic Republic and caused reverberations across the global economy. The president made a surprise visit to the […]
NEW DELHI — Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has accepted the resignation of Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, who on November 3 resigned from his Parliamentary seat and the National Conference following differences with the party leadership. “Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, an elected member of Lok Sabha from the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, has resigned […]
SYDNEY — Former opener Usman Khawaja claimed on Saturday that the entire Australian team knew about the 2018 “Sandpapergate” scandal in Cape Town and said they also employed the tactic during the previous Test at Port Elizabeth. Captain Steve Smith, his deputy David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were sent home in disgrace and found by […]
POONCH — Body of a mentally unsound person was found at Sangla Nallah in Surankote here on Monday, little over 12 hours after he had gone missing from his residence, official sources said. A police official told GNS that body of the person, Alam Din (60) son of Bagh Ali, of Fazalabad was spotted by […]
MUMBAI — Fans of Lata Mangeshkar are disappointed after the melody queen was not included in the ‘In Memoriam’ section of the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The absence of the legendary Indian playback singer from the 2022 Grammys ceremony, held on early Monday morning in Las Vegas, comes a week after the Academy Awards left […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Android 12 has brought a lot of additional features and now a new report has claimed that Google is working on a way to allow users to have dual-SIM capabilities on handsets running on Android 13 with a single eSIM chip. According to GSM Arena, through a feature called Multiple Enabled Profiles […]
POONCH — Indian army recovered arms and ammunition from militant hideout during an operation launched along the Line of Control in Noorkote area of Poonch district. On Sunday, the troops of Indian Army and SOG, carried out a joint operation and recovered arms and ammunition from a village along Line of Control in district Poonch, […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained partly cloudy in J&K and Ladakh on Monday as the Meteorological (MeT) department forecast mainly clear weather in the two union territories during the next 24 hours. “Weather is likely to remain dry with clear sky in J&K and Ladakh during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department […]
NEW DELHI — India reported less than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases for the first time in 715 days and the active caseload fell below 13,000, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. A total of 913 fresh Covid cases were recorded in a span of 24 hours. India had reported 991 infections […]
NEW DELHI — Petrol and diesel prices were on Monday hiked by 40 paise a litre each, taking the total increase in rates in the last two weeks to ₹8.40 per litre. Petrol in Delhi will now cost ₹103.81 per litre as against ₹103.41 previously, while diesel rates have gone up from ₹94.67 per litre […]
SRINAGAR — Seven houseboats and three sheds were gutted in a massive midnight fire in Nigeen Lake here on Monday, officials said. They said fire started from a houseboat and engulfed adjacent ones. Though locals and police launched a firefighting operation, the houseboats were “substantially” gutted before the blaze was finally contained. An official of […]
NEW DELHI — The Customs official arrested two persons, an Air passenger and a receiver for smuggling at Lucknow Airport and recovered 460 grams of gold valued at Rs 24.38 lakh from their possession. The passengers reached Lucknow Airport from Dubai on April 3. His receiver was waiting outside the airport. A senior Customs official […]
NEW DELHI — After hate speech against Muslims at Dharam Sansad in Haridwar, Yati Narsinghanand, the head priest of the Dasna Devi temple, stoked yet another controversy on Sunday with his comment that “50 per cent of Hindus will convert” in 20 years if a Muslim became the prime minister of India. Addressing a ‘Hindu […]
