Minor among four killed as car falls in canal in Jammu
Jammu, Sep 11: Four persons including a 2-month-old baby and her 2-year-old sister were among four persons killed while as many persons were rescued after a car they were travelling in fell into a canal in Jammu, officials said on Saturday. They said late last night, one Maruti car (JK02AC-7169) driven by one Ganesh Kumar […]
India records 33,376 new coronavirus cases, 308 deaths
New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI) India saw a single-day rise of 33,376 coronavirus infections, taking the overall tally of cases to 3,32,08,330, while the number of active cases increased marginally since Friday to stand at 3,91,516, according to the Union Health Ministry. The death toll climbed to 4,42,317 with 308 daily fatalities, according to the […]
Youth’s dead body recovered in Baramulla
Srinagar, Sep 11: A dead body of a 21-year-old youth was found was recovered in Darwa Chandoosa area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla on Saturday. A senior police officer said that the body Javiad Ahmad (21), a student, was found near Ningli Nallah and latter recovered by a police team. The death is mysterious and investigation […]
UN raises alarm on Taliban crackdown on dissent, journalists
Kabul, Sep 11 (AP) The United Nations on Friday sounded the alarm over Taliban crackdowns on peaceful protests, many of them by women demanding equal rights, and journalists covering such events. In one case, two Afghan video journalists were beaten with iron rods. Tagi Daryabi said he and a colleague were covering a protest earlier […]
Deficient rainfall
This year has once again witnessed an increased temperature during the peak summer with most of the regions recording deficient rainfall during the monsoon. The phenomenon has meant that the people will have to cope with shortage of water especially for the agricultural activity. Rainfall in August, which recorded 24 percent deficiency, was lowest in […]
The missing human touch
Zubair Hamid Parray We are now living in a tech-savvy world filled with objects like smart phones, computers and tablets that have become an integral part of our life. It is now hard to imagine our lives without artificial intelligence. The progress that we have made from mobile phones to smart phones and computers to […]
Dunbar’s magic number and my sense of guilt!
Desh Bir Robin Dunbar, the anthropologist and psychologist, whose research found that the maximum number of people a person can have in a very well knit network of friends and acquaintances does not exceed 150. He claims that this is universally true. He must be legitimate in his enunciation since it is based on scientific […]
JK reports 173 new covid-19 cases, one fatality
Srinagar, Sep 10: The spike in the covid-19 cases continued for the third consecutive day on Friday as Jammu & Kashmir reported 173 new novel coronavirus infections even as one death was reported due to the virus during the past 24 hours, officials said. 23 of the fresh cases were reported from Jammu Division and […]
Industrial production grows 11.5 pc in July
New Delhi, Sep 10 (PTI) India’s industrial production rose 11.5 per cent in July, according to official data released on Friday. As per the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), the manufacturing sector’s output surged 10.5 per cent in July 2021. In July, the mining output climbed 19.5 per […]
PM chairs high-level meeting on COVID situation, vaccination
New Delhi, Sep 10 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a high-level meeting to review the COVID-19 related situation and the vaccination drive in the country, government sources said. The meeting comes a day after Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said India is still going through the second wave of COVID-19 and it […]