Burglars steal over 250 apple boxes from orchard in Pulwama
Srinagar, Oct 5: Burglars, on the intervening Sunday-Monday night, stole over 250 apple boxes from the orchards of Wachpora Murran area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that the boxes had been stored in a shed owned by a local grower Irshad Ahmad Shah son of Sayed Saif ud Din Shah. The estimated market […]
A welcome move
Since the world has witnessed tremendous changes in almost all spheres of activities after the corona outbreak, education too has been one of the worse hit sectors. Not only are physical classrooms still out of bounds for the students in most of the regions across the globe but the new way of learning, that is […]
Ridiculing the Right to Education
Er. Prabhat Kishore The “Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009” has been implemented since 1st April 2010 with the objective of ensuring quality education to all children in the country. In the light of the provision of the Act, rules and regulations were promulgated by the State Governments regarding grant of […]
How feasible is an EU Army?
Asad Mirza It seems that the EU has learnt the lessons of the abrupt end of the US-led mission in Afghanistan and furthermore after AUKUS, that the US is a trying to build a coalition of English speaking Anglophonic nations in the defence realm and that time has now come for them to guard their […]
Some of 68 people recommended by SC collegium set to be appointed as HC judges soon: Sources
New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI) Some of the 68 people recommended by the Supreme Court collegium are set to be appointed as judges of various high courts in the next few days, sources aware of the procedure for appointment to the higher judiciary have said. Some of the files on recommendations are in the “advanced” […]
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messanger back online after hours of disruption
Washington, Oct 5 (PTI) Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are back online after the popular social media platforms suffered a massive global outage that lasted almost six hours, affecting tens of millions of users worldwide. The Facebook-owned platforms all crashed on Monday evening, blocking users from accessing their services. The California-based company said late on […]
IMF gets briefing on probe into China rankings at World Bank
Washington, Oct 5 (AP) The International Monetary Fund said Monday its board of directors has been briefed by attorneys from the law firm whose investigation found that current IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and other officials pressured World Bank employees to alter data affecting the business rankings of China and other nations. The IMF said […]
Self-regulation in social media not working: White House
Washington, Oct 5 (PTI) Social media platforms have made clear that self-regulation is not working, the White House asserted on Monday, saying reports about efforts to attract young users and negative effects on teenagers’ mental health are troubling. As we saw the revelations that came out in that interview, in our view, this is just […]
COVID-19: Lowest rise in daily cases in 209 days
New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI) India logged 18,346 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 209 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,38,53,048, while the active cases declined to 2,52,902, the lowest in 201 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 4,49,260 with 263 […]
JK reports 100 fresh covid-19 cases
Srinagar, Oct 4: Jammu and Kashmir reported 100 fresh covid-19 cases even as no fresh fatality was registered due to the virus during the past 24 hours, officials said Monday. 22 of these cases were reported from Jammu Division and 78 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally to 329889. There was no death due […]