Turkey, Russia seek lasting ceasefire in Libya
ANKARA: Turkish and Russian delegations met on Wednesday in Turkey’s capital to discuss the war in Libya and agreed to press ahead with efforts for a lasting ceasefire in the North African country, Turkeys Foreign Ministry said. A joint statement released after the meeting said They also agreed to joint efforts to advance a political […]
Mani outlines challenges ahead for Pakistan cricket
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani said on Wednesday that the PCB has a great ambition of inviting foreign cricketers following the revamp of the domestic cricket structure last year but admitted it will have to elevate its standards in order to achieve this objective. He said this in a wide-ranging discussion with cricket […]
J&K COVID-19 toll rises to 279 as 53-year-old Srinagar man dies at SKIMS
Srinagar: A 53-year-old an employee of Jal Shakti Department, died at SKIMS Soura after testing positive for COVID-19 taking the disease toll in Jammu and Kashmir to 279. The deceased was a resident of Nawa Kadal area of Srinagar as per officials. With these deaths, 259 people in Kashmir and 20 in Jammu have died […]
COVID-19: J-K Govt sanctions Rs 15 crore under SDRF for SKIMS
Srinagar: Amid spike in COVID cases, the government on Thursday sanctioned Rs 15 Crore under State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for Sher Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, Government Medical Colleges (GMC) Srinagar and Jammu. The decision to sanction Rs five Crore each to the three health institutions was taken in a State Executive […]
YATRA CANCELLED
After lot of consultations and high level meetings finally good sense has prevailed on the decision makers as they cancelled the annual Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir. In this direction even the scheduled yatra of two weeks was cancelled as Kashmir valley witnessed a worst period of pandemic. An official announcement was made recently evening after […]
Nearly 46k cases take India’s COVID-19 tally over 12-lakh mark
With the highest-ever single-day spike of 45,720 cases, India’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 12-lakh mark on Thursday, while the death-toll mounted to 29,861 with a record 1,129 fatalities in a day, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country crossed the 12-lakh mark just three days after it crossed the 11-lakh milestone. The coronavirus […]
Kashmiri students of Aryans shine in MRS-PTU, Punjab results
Students of Aryans College of Engineering, Rajpura, Near Chandigarh brought laurels to the college by giving excellent results in the final examinations conducted by MRS-PTU, Bathinda. In B.Tech Civil 4th year – 1st position was bagged by Sonika Rajwal and Tenzin Gaydun with 9.20 SGPA, 2nd position by Ajay Kumar and Binit Kumar with 9.10 […]
Security agencies red-flag Chinese fronts in education, not just power and telecom
An exercise to minimise the role of power and telecom companies believed to be linked to the Chinese government could be expanded to cover other critical sectors such as higher education as well, people familiar with the development said after a July 15 review of the penetration of such companies and institutions in the Indian […]
COVID19: DM orders closure of Markets in Bandipora District for 72-hours
District Magistrate Bandipora Dr Owais Ahmed has ordered closure of all markets in Bandipora district for 72 hours with effect from Thursday morning. The order has been issued as a precautionary measure to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. According to the order issued on Wednesday evening, all shops/ service providers except Chemists and essential […]
Minor girl drowns to death in Shopian
A 13 -year-old girl was drowned to death on Wednesday in Nallah Adijan in shopian area of south Kashmir, her body was later recovered at Nalla gramtoo at Mandujan. Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service said that that a minor girl drowned in Nallah while washing utensils, stating that she got slipped in the Nallah “After […]
