Uzbekistan stages outdoor exams for 1.4m university applicants
TASHKENT: Tens of thousands of youngsters headed to sports arenas across Uzbekistan on Wednesday to sit university entrance exams in the open air due to the coronavirus pandemic. The massive exercise, which will span two weeks, will see more than 1.4 million applicants take a three-hour test while seated at desks on the running tracks […]
‘Difficult’ for Messi to stay at Barca, says father
BARCELONA: Jorge Messi, father and agent of Lionel Messi, said on Wednesday he thinks it will be “difficult” for his son to stay at Barcelona. Messi senior landed in Barcelona on Wednesday ahead of talks with the club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu about the striker’s intention to leave this summer. Messi senior flew in from […]
NIA charges Kashmiri couple for ISIS links, conspiring anti-CAA protests
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against five “operatives” of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), including a Kashmiri couple — Jahanzaib Sami and Hina Bashir Beigh — for allegedly conspiring to utilize the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests to instigate Muslims against the government and planning to indulge in arson […]
Demonetisation an attack on India’s poor, farmers: Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that the government’s hidden agenda behind demonetisation was to deliberately harm India’s informal sector, which survives on liquid cash. In his latest video series on the Indian economy, Gandhi dubbed the 2016 demonetisation as an “attack on India’s poor, farmers, workers and small shop owners”. He claimed that […]
Army Chief begins two-day visit to Ladakh
New Delhi:Army Chief Gen MM Naravane began a two-day visit to Ladakh on Thursday to carry out a comprehensive review of the security situation in the region in view of China’s fresh attempts to change status quo along the southern bank of Pangong lake, official sources said. Gen Naravane will be briefed about the evolving […]
Govt foils PDP meeting, leaders disallowed to leave home
On Thursday, several leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were stopped by the police from leaving their residences to attend a party meeting scheduled at 11 am. Talking to The Kashmir Walla, Mohit Bhan, spokesperson of the PDP, said that the meeting was supposed to be attended by all district-level leaders. However, he said, the leaders […]
52 new COVID cases, another death in Ladakh
An octogenarian died of the novel coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the toll to 35 on Wednesday, officials said. The number of cases of the pathogen rose to 2,733 with 52 more people testing positive for the infection, including 46 in Leh and six in Kargil, according to the officials. The active cases of the coronavirus […]
Steroids Reduce Death Rate Among Severely Ill Coronavirus Patients: Study
New studies confirm that multiple types of steroids improve survival for severely ill COVID-19 patients, cementing the cheap drugs as a standard of care. An analysis of pooled results from seven studies, led by the World Health Organisation and published Wednesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that steroids reduced the risk […]
Sahara red-flagged for fraud probe: Rs 86,000 crore from 4 crore depositors
BETWEEN 2012 and 2014, when two of its group firms were indicted by the Supreme Court and its chief Subrata Roy was arrested, the Sahara Group floated three cooperative societies and collected deposits worth Rs 86,673 crore from as many as four crore depositors, records accessed by The Indian Express show. These societies — and a fourth […]
PDF can’t remain away from Gukpar Declaration: Hakeem Yasin
Peoples Democratic Front (PDF) Chairman Hakeem Mohammad Yasin on Wednesday said the party will keep itself away from contesting polls till special status of Jammu and Kashmir is not restored in a dignified manner. Talking to KNS, PDF Chairman said that there is no question of contesting polls till GoI will not restore the special […]
