BENGALURU — Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday to their highest in four weeks, as the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade of Iran while the two countries stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening uncertainty about energy flows. Brent crude futures climbed $1.68, or 2%, to $84.98 per barrel by 0051 GMT, while […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said he will discuss the situation in the region with visiting US Ambassador Sergio Gor, but ruled out raising internal issues with Washington’s representative, saying only the central government can resolve those issues. “It is after a very long time that a US ambassador […]
PULWAMA — The second edition of the Royal Premier League Pulwama commenced in this south Kashmir district on Wednesday evening, marking a striking display of the region’s changing social landscape. In an area once associated with the presence of terror groups, the cricket tournament has brought a very different energy to the forefront-one defined by […]
BEIJING — A type of coronavirus, NeoCov, that spreads among bats in South Africa may pose a threat to humans in future if it mutates further, according to a study by Chinese researchers. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study recently posted on the preprint repository BioRxiv, shows that NeoCov is closely related to the Middle East respiratory […]
SRINAGAR — Unknown militants on Friday fired upon a policeman at SD Colony Batamaloo Srinagar but he had a miraculous escape, officials said. Top police officer told GNS that at about 1550 hours, militants fired upon the police constable. However, the policeman escaped unhurt. Soon after the attack, the officer said that entire area was […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir University on Friday announced that all pending exams of the varsity will be held in “offline” mode and the date sheets will be issued soon. Reacting to the demand of some students including Nursing Students’ who are seeking “online” exams, Controller of Examinations, KU, Prof Irshad A Nawchoo said that all pending […]
NEW DELHI — Scientists from China’s Wuhan, where the Covid-19 virus was first discovered in 2019, have warned of a new type of coronavirus ‘NeoCov’ in South Africa, stated to have a high death and transmission rate, according to a report by the Russian news agency Sputnik. However, according to the report, the NeoCov virus […]
NEW DELHI — The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has given its approval to Bharat Biotech for trials of its intranasal Covid booster dose in India. The trials will be done at 9 different sites. An intranasal vaccine as a booster dose would be easier to administer in mass vaccination campaigns and has the […]
SRINAGAR — The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCC&I) has taken exception over the clampdown of fresh lockdown by administration in Jammu and Kashmir hinting that its adverse effects on the business community which they say is already marred with financial instability. “As the Covid-19 positive cases continue to spike across the UT of […]
PULWAMA — A special police officer (SPO), posted with Government Railway Police, succumbed to injuries he had suffered after being hit by a train while trying to save a person on railway track near Kakapora Pulwama railway station earlier this week. The civilian identified as one Showkat Ahmad Dar son of Abdul Rashid Dar, a […]
BANDIPORA — The administration in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday airlifted two patients from snowbound Gurez valley to Bandipora for immediate medical relief, officials said. Officials at District Control Room Bandipora said that on the directions of DC, Bandipora, Dr Owais Ahmad, the two patients identified as Ruqaya Nusrat, Daughter of Muhammad Shafi of […]
BARAMULLA — Two brothers are feared dead after they drowned while extracting sand in the river Jehlum. Police sources told news agency Kashmir Today Trust that the incident occurred near Jatty Khojabagh area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. They added that police and SDRF have launched an operation to locate them. Police sources identified them […]
SRINAGAR — With ‘Chillai Kalan’, the 40-day long harshest period of winter ending in couple of days, the minimum temperature plunged across Kashmir Valley as the world famous Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 11.8°C on Friday. An official of the meteorological department here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K recorded […]
