Haj 2022 online application process starts
Mumbai, Nov 1 (PTI) The online application process for Haj 2022 began on Monday with Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announcing significant reforms and enhanced facilities for the pilgrimage. While announcing Haj 2022 at Haj House in south Mumbai, Naqvi said the entire Haj process will be 100 per cent digital/online. The […]
Education in India not inclusive; we are lacking in terms of education: SC judge
Bhuj, Nov 1 (PTI) As per the standards of sustainable development India is still lacking in terms of education as it has not achieved the goal of “inclusive education”, Supreme Court judge Justice UU Lalit said here on Monday and underlined the need to undertake more efforts on this front and to provide good and […]
Covid: 11 new cases in Ladakh
Leh, Nov 1 (PTI) Ladakh recorded 11 fresh COVID-19 cases that took the infection tally to 20,962, officials said on Monday. The number of active cases stands at 67 — 62 in Leh and five in Kargil district, they said. Authorities have declared Shalok Tsemphukpa Matho area of Leh district as micro containment zone in […]
‘Unauthorized Appointments’: ACB produces charge-sheet against accused
Srinagar, Nov 1: Three days after government terminated his service, Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday produced chargesheet against Dr. Fayaz Ahmad Banday, former BMO Beerwah Budgam in a case related to illegal and unauthorized appointments of Class-IV employees during 2003-06. The ACB also produced chargesheet against others officials including two more BMOs and 71 beneficiaries before […]
Covid booster dose effective in reducing severe disease outcomes: Lancet study
Boston, Nov 1 (PTI) A third dose of COVID-19 vaccine is effective in reducing severe disease outcomes compared to individuals who have received two doses at least five months ago, according to the largest real-world study of Pfizer booster shot published in The Lancet. The study by researchers from The Clalit Research Institute and Harvard […]
JK declares Oct 23-24 rain, snowfall ‘state specific natural disaster’
Jammu, Nov 1 (PTI) In a major relief to the farmers affected by the recent inclement weather, Jammu and Kashmir administration has declared heavy spell of rainfall and snowfall on October 23 and 24 as state specific natural disaster under State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) norms. In an order, Nazim Zai Khan, Secretary, Disaster Management, […]
Man killed, three others injured in road mishap at Kupwara
Kupwara, Nov 1: A 32-year-old man was killed and three persons were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident in Kralpora area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday, officials said. They said the car bearing registration number (JK01V/9561) while on way to Kupwara fell into a deep gorge in […]
Active COVID-19 cases in country lowest in 248 days
New Delhi, Nov 1 (PTI) With 12,514 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,42,85,814, while the active cases declined to 1,58,817, the lowest in 248 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 4,58,437 with 251 fresh […]
G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing
Rome, Nov 1 (AP) Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a Rome summit before the much larger United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. While Italian Prime […]
JK reports 95 fresh covid-19 cases
Srinagar, Oct 31: Jammu and Kashmir reported 95 fresh covid-19 cases even as there was no fatality due to the pathogen during the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday. Among the fresh cases, six were reported from Jammu Division and 89 from Kashmir, taking the overall tally to 332249. There was no death due […]