Tap water revolution
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat What is common between Lwangtlai in Mizoram, Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, Khachh in Gujarat and Nicobar Islands apart from them being the four extreme corner districts of the country? The common theme in all these places is that, now if you ask for water at people’s home, they will go to […]
Creating steep change in student learning
Vijay Garg The online education substituting physical learning during past 500 days has resulted in logs of learning in spite of students passing their exams. Such a sudden and all-encompassing crisis has never confronted our system ever before. Naturally our poorly funded education system was inflicted a further loss. Of India’s 20 million school children, […]
JK reports 152 new covid-19 cases
Srinagar, Sep 18: Jammu and Kashmir reported 152 new covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the virus during the past 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. They said 15 of the cases were reported from Jammu Division and 137 from Kashmir Valley, taking the total count to 327773. There was no death […]
Amarinder Singh resigns as Punjab CM
Chandigarh, Sep 18 (PTI) Congress veteran Amarinder Singh on Saturday resigned as chief minister of Punjab, capping months of a power tussle that had polarised the ruling party in the state headed for elections in just about four months. “I feel humiliated…,” Singh told reporters outside the Punjab Raj Bhawan after submitting his resignation to […]
Militants, forces exchange fire at Noorbagh in Srinagar
Srinagar, Sep 18: Police on Saturday said that militants seem to have fled after dropping their weapons following a brief firing in Noor Bagh area of Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Saturday. “A small team of police while laying cordon were fired upon by militants. Seem they escaped after dropping their weapons,” a senior police […]
Schools closed in Leh as Ladakh reports 71 new COVID-19 cases
Jammu, Sep 18 (PTI) All schools in Leh district were closed for 15 days from Saturday after Ladakh reported 71 fresh cases of COVID-19, the highest single-day rise in the past over two months, taking the overall infection tally to 20,702, officials said. A majority of the new cases were detected from Druk Padma Karpo […]
No need for Covid booster doses in India at this stage, say experts
New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) Will a booster shot provide the turbocharge for Covid immunity that India is looking for? Maybe in an ideal situation where most people are fully vaccinated but not when less than a quarter of the adult population has received both doses, say experts. As the global debate on booster shots […]
Man falls to death from walnut tree in Tral
Tral, Sep 18: A man died after falling from a walnut tree in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday morning, an official said. An official said that a man identified as Bashir Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Qadir Bhat, resident of Nigeenpora Tral fell from walnut tree and was immediately evacuated to […]
India reports 35,662 new covid-19 cases
New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) India saw a single-day rise of 35,662 new COVID-19 infections, while the active cases increased to 3,40,639, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The active cases now comprise 1.02 per cent of the total infections and the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 97.65 […]
Militant apprehend in Kishtwar
Jammu, Sep 18 (PTI) Security forces have arrested a former militant in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said on Saturday. On specific information received through reliable sources, a special team of security forces raided the suspected locations on Friday and arrested the former militant, they said. The arrested person has been identified as Abdul […]