Pain relief through technological advancements
Dr. Amod Manocha The complexities of pain and the fact that surgery or pills cannot resolve all pain has been long recognised. Though living with undiagnosed or untreated chronic pain is seen by some as a sign of incredible resilience, it has many detrimental effects on our body beyond suffering. Accepting pain to be a […]
Droupadi Murmu is now India’s president-elect
New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) President-elect Droupadi Murmu. The arc of triumph forged through personal tragedy is complete for the unassuming politician who started public life as a councillor in Odisha and will be written into history as India’s first tribal president and the second woman in the post. On Thursday, the former Jharkhand governor […]
JK reports 505 fresh covid-19 cases
Srinagar, July 21: Jammu and Kashmir reported 505 covid-19 cases during the past 24 hours, the highest single-day spike in more than five and a half months, even as there was no death due to the virus, officials said on Thursday. 277 cases were reported from Jammu division and 228 from Kashmir division, taking the […]
Three non-local labourers killed as brick kiln caves in at Kakapora Pulwama
Srinagar, Jul 21: Three non-local labourers were killed after a brick kiln caved in at Ukhoo of Kakapora area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district this afternoon, official sources said. They said that three persons identified as, Lukman Khan son of Sulemaan, Raj Dev son of Devinder Kumar and Kalbi Khan, all residents of Uttar Pradesh […]
SEC discusses modalities of ULB bye- elections
Srinagar, July 21: State Election Commissioner (SEC), KK Sharma today held a meeting with Principal Secretary Housing & Urban Development Department (H&DD), Dheeraj Gupta. Threadbare discussions were held on constitution of Municipal Bodies and modalities were also discussed with regard to arrangements by H&UDD for making transition for conduct of elections/bye elections to the Urban […]
Rupee rises 20 paise to close at 79.85 against US dollar
Mumbai, Jul 21 (PTI) The rupee recovered from its all-time low of 80.06 to close 20 paise higher at 79.85 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday following overall weakness in crude oil prices and fresh foreign fund inflows. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened lower at 80.03 against the greenback and fell […]
Counting of votes for presidential election begins
New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) Counting of votes for the presidential election started here on Thursday to decide on incumbent Ram Nath Kovind’s successor. The process of counting the votes started at 11 am in room number 63 in Parliament House, where the ballot boxes brought from all the state assemblies were kept. National Democratic Alliance’s […]
Amid heavy rains, 4,700 pilgrims leave for Amarnath cave shrine from Jammu
Jammu, Jul 21 (PTI) Braving heavy rains, a fresh batch of over 4,703 Amarnath Yatra pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for the twin base camps of Baltal and Pahalgam in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Thursday, officials said. The pilgrims left in a convoy of 156 vehicles escorted by the Central Reserve […]
Landslides lead to closure of J-K highway, 1000 vehicles stranded
Banihal/Jammu, July 21 (PTI) The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic due to landslides triggered by heavy rains at several places in Ramban district on Thursday, officials said. Nearly 1000 vehicles, including a convoy carrying Amarnath pilgrims, are stranded at different points of the highway, they said. The 270-km highway, the only all-weather road […]
MeT forecasts ‘fairly widespread’ rain in JK
Srinagar, July 21: The weatherman has forecast fairly widespread light to moderate rain and thunderstorms in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. A meteorological department official here said that there was possibility of scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rain and thunderstorms for subsequent two days also. He said rains lashed Jammu region and parts […]