Kartarpur corridor: Pakistan team leaves for India, to hold deliberation with counterparts
A high level Pakistani delegation will be arriving in India to negotiate to negotiate a mechanism to govern operations of the Kartarpur Corridor on Thursday. According to Dawn report the meeting with the Indian counterparts will deliberate on providing visa-free access to Indian Sikh pilgrims to the Gurdwara in Kartarpur Sahib. Kartarpur is a small […]
Forecaster predicts rainy days in Valley
Srinagar: Weatherman on Thursday predicted rainy days ahead with three days of dry weather conditions in the valley. According the forecaster the sky over Valley will be generally cloudy with occasional light rain till March 15 morning. “Thereafter mainly it will remain dry weather upto 19th. Again from 19th evening one more rainy spell will […]
India, US agree to build six nuclear power plants in India
Washington(PTI): India and the US said they have agreed to build six American nuclear power plants in India, in a boost to bilateral civil nuclear energy cooperation. The two countries said this in a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the 9th round of India-US Strategic Security Dialogue, co-chaired by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale […]
PM’s foreign policy a series of ‘diplomatic disasters’: Cong on Masood Azhar issue
New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) The Congress attacked the BJP government after China blocked a bid at the UN to designate Pakistan-based terror group JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist”, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy has been a series of “diplomatic disasters”. The opposition party also slammed China for blocking the […]
Outage hits Facebook, Instagram users worldwide
San Francisco, Mar 14 (AFP) Facebook and Instagram users lost access to the social network’s applications in parts of the world Wednesday as a result of an outage of undetermined origin. The California giant which has more than two billion users acknowledged the outage after users noted on Twitter they could not access Facebook or […]
UNSC members may be forced to pursue other actions: UNSC diplomat on Masood Azhar
Washington, Mar 14 (PTI) Outraged by China blocking for the fourth time a move to designate JeM chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist, responsible UNSC members warned they “may be forced to pursue other actions” at the Security Council if Beijing continued with this policy. “If China continues to block this designation, responsible member-states may be […]
China does it again, blocks move at UN to declare Masood Azhar as ‘global terrorist’
United Nations: China has again blocked move to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad’s (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist in UN Security Council, making it the fourth such move since 2009. The proposal to list Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UNSC was moved by France, the UK and the US […]
Kartarpur helps melt the India, Pak freeze
Both sides meeting today to discuss modalities of corridor
New Delhi: India and Pakistan will Thursday hold their first meeting to finalise the modalities for setting up of a corridor linking Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistani town of Kartarpur with Gurdaspur district in Punjab, three months after the two countries agreed on the project. In the meeting, to be held at the Indian side […]
