Jammu-Srinagar NH remains closed for second day, 3000 vehicles stranded
Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the second consecutive day on Friday due to multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district, leaving over 3000 vehicles stranded, officials said. The highway was blocked by a major landslide at Trishul Morh, Battery Cheshma and Pantiyal areas on Thursday, officials said. Deputy Superintendent of […]
Army trooper dies by suicide along LoC in Poonch
An army trooper shot himself dead with his service rifle along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu region, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS), quoting unnamed official sources. The source informed that the trooper, Mohit Kumar, of 39 Rashtriya Rifles died on the spot after he shot himself on […]
CRISIS AND SOLUTION
What has the government done in the past five months of lockdown to equip the hospitals of Kashmir to treat Covid-19 patients? With the authorities failing to flatten the curve, now the government has decided to ease the lockdown showing that their previous decisions to keep the population indoors were wrong and ill conceived. Has […]
Will Discuss J&K Political Agenda After All Leaders Freed: Farooq Abdullah
Srinagar: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said the party would discuss and review the political agenda with regard to Jammu and Kashmir only after all leaders including former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti have been set free. “The aim of today’s meeting was to ensure that the four leaders were free. We will discuss […]
Shashi Tharoor-led MPs’ Panel To Meet Facebook Reps On Sept 2 To Discuss ‘Misuse Of Social Media’
The parliamentary standing committee on Information Technology, led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has summoned Facebook on September 2 to discuss the issue of alleged misuse of social media platforms in the wake of claims that the US firm did not apply hate-speech rules to certain BJP politicians. A day before, the panel will also […]
Yousuf would say ‘break his fingers I can’t play his spin’: Akhtar on bowling bouncers to Muralitharan
Pakistan bowling legend Shoaib Akhtar was known as ‘Rawalpindi Express’ for a reason. Akhtar’s strength on the cricket field was not only his ability to generate huge speed on his deliveries but the execution of it as well. The bounce and line-and-length at which Akhtar would bowl to batsmen would often leave the opposition batsmen […]
New research: Study suggests Covid-19 not transmitted via breast milk
Can breast milk transmit Covid-19 from a mother to her child? A new study in JAMAsuggests it does not happen. The study examined 64 samples of breast milk collected by the Mommy’s Milk Human Milk Research Biorespository from 18 women across the US infected with severe SARS-CoV-2. Although one sample tested positive for viral RNA, subsequent tests found […]
Joe Biden accepts Democratic nomination: ‘I will draw on the best of us’
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, beginning a general-election challenge to President Donald Trump that Democrats have cast as a rescue mission for a country equally besieged by a crippling pandemic and a White House defined by incompetence, racism and abuse of power. Speaking before a row of flags in his home state of […]
Parliamentary Panel Summons Facebook On September 2 To Discuss ‘Misuse Of Social Media’
The parliamentary standing committee on Information Technology has summoned Facebook on September 2 to discuss the issue of alleged misuse of social media platforms in the wake of claims that the US firm did not apply hate-speech rules to certain BJP politicians. A day before, the panel will also discuss the issue of internet shutdowns […]
NC starts party leadership meetings to chalk out future strategy
National Conference(NC) patron Farooq Abdul has started consultation with party leadership to chalk out future strategy regarding various issues after abrogation of special status of J&K. Dr Abdullah on Thursday held a meeting with four of the senior party leaders who were detained post the August 5 decision last year. Dr Abdullah confirmed to KNS […]
