Sisters from Kashmir make snow sculpture as tribute to corona warriors
Srinagar, Jan 10 (PTI) As a white winter and COVID-19 pandemic keep the people homebound, two sisters from Kashmir — one a doctor and the other a lawyer by education — have warmed hearts with their tribute in snow to the corona warriors. A steady stream of visitors was seen at the lawn of their […]
Army Captain staged Amshipura encounter for Rs 20 lakh: Police charge sheet
Shopian (Kashmir), Jan 10 (PTI) The Army Captain, who was involved in the alleged fake encounter in Shopian in July last year in which three youths were killed, had hatched a conspiracy along with two civilians with the motive for “grabbing” a reward money of Rs 20 lakh and also fired at the victims even […]
133 fresh covid-19 cases, 1 death reported in JK
Srinagar, Jan 10: Jammu and Kashmir reported 113 fresh covid-19 cases, four of them travelers, taking the total tally of infections to 122538. Also one covid-19 death was reported—a 70-year-old man from Kupwara, taking the fatality count to 1910. Official sources said that among the cases, 56 were from Jammu Division and 57 from Kashmir […]
Kashmir records another light snowfall
Srinagar, Jan 10: Parts of Kashmir including Srinagar received very light snowfall overnight even as mercury remained blow sub-zero levels with Gulmarg remaining coldest place in the Valley. A meteorological department official here said that Srinagar received 2.5cm of fresh snowfall in the last 24 hours till 0830 hours. Qazigund, the gate town of Kashmir, […]
Bird flu cases confirmed in 13 MP districts so far: Official
Bhopal, Jan 10 (PTI) Bird flu cases have so far been confirmed in 13 districts of Madhya Pradesh, while around 1,100 crows and other wild birds have been found dead across 27 districts since the flu virus was first detected in the state last month, a government official said on Sunday. A poultry market in […]
Body parts, debris found after Indonesia plane crash
Jakarta, Jan 10 (AP) Indonesian rescuers pulled out body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of metal from the Java Sea early on Sunday morning, a day after a Boeing 737-500 with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, officials said. Officials were hopeful they were honing in on the wreckage of Sriwijaya […]
Massive blackout in Pakistan
Islamabad, Jan 10 (PTI) Several cities and towns across Pakistan plunged into darkness late on Saturday night following a huge blackout due to a fault in the power distribution system, according to media reports. The power outage was reported shortly before midnight almost simultaneously in many cities. Residents of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan and […]
Kashmir gets another snow ‘surprise’
Air traffic disrupted as fresh downpour halts life
Srinagar: Air traffic to and from Kashmir was affected on Saturday as several flights were cancelled due to fresh snowfall in Srinagar and other parts of the Valley, officials said. They said snow accumulated on the runway of the Srinagar airport which hampered the flight operations. No flight operations have taken place at Srinagar airport […]
COVID-19 vaccination: 3 Cr healthcare, frontline workers to get shots from Jan 16
New Delhi: India will launch its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the world’s largest inoculation programme with priority to be given to nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers. The decision, the government said on Saturday, was taken at a high-level meeting where Modi reviewed the […]
