More parking spaces needed
Most towns across Kashmir have been experiencing nagging traffic jams that too during peak hours of public mobility. The crisis has become so alarming that people have started to avoid travelling during the morning and evening peak hours when the roads get crammed with vehicles making it impossible to move ahead. Even numerous cases have […]
Erosion of values in our society
Syed Mustafa Ahmad, Syed Mehroosh The erosion of values in our society is a collective mourning for us. Every nation has some values that helps it to reach the pinnacles of glory and to remain apart from others. Till today, no nation has consciously or unconsciously, has trampled up on these to be called as […]
Spine surgery: Minimally invasive procedures revolutionising treatment outcomes
Dr Ayush Sharma With the transformation and development India has seen in the fields of medical science, technology, economy and others, India is already in the making of one of the major superpowers of the world. Neuroscience has seen such a vast progress and expansion in the last few years and the kind of treatment […]
EC makes fresh push for power to de-register parties
New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI) The Election Commission has made a fresh push to change the electoral law to get powers to de-register political parties which are dormant and have not contested polls. The issue was among the various electoral reforms discussed by a senior EC official with Law Minister Kiren Rijiju here last week, EC […]
Two brothers held with heroin and cash in Jammu
Jammu, Sep 8 (PTI) Police have arrested two drug peddlers with 30 grams of heroin and over Rs 1.62 lakh in their possession on the outskirts of Jammu, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. Sanjeev Kumar alias “Chotu” and his brother Jagdeep Kumar, residents of Ban Sultan, were travelling in their car when they […]
Fridge-free Covid vaccines developed using viruses from plants, bacteria
Los Angeles, Sep 8 (PTI) Scientists have used key ingredients from plant and bacterial viruses to develop new COVID-19 vaccine candidates that do not need to be refrigerated. The fridge-free vaccines, described in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on Tuesday, triggered high production of neutralising antibodies in mice against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that […]
NSA Doval, top Russian security official hold talks on Afghan crisis
New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI) NSA Ajit Doval on Wednesday held talks with his Russian counterpart Gen Nikolay Patrushev in mitigating any possible security threat from the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, a day after holding similar deliberations with CIA Chief William Burns. Burns, Patrushev and the UK’s Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Richard Moore were […]
Parl Committee of MEA expresses satisfaction over improved security situation: Army
Srinagar, Sep 8: Army on Wednesday said that an 11-member parliamentary committee of Ministry of External Affairs expressed satisfaction over the “improved security situation” in Kashmir Valley. The members led by committee’s chairman PP Chaudhary visited Chinar Corps headquarters here today and were received by GOC Chinar Corps Lt Gen DP Pandey, a defense ministry […]
Admin orders Installation of CCTVs in Anantnag
Srinagar, Sept 8: District administration Anantnag on Wednesday ordered various government departments and private companies besides owners of shopping malls and all other business establishments including hotels, restaurants, clinics, nursing homes and hospitals to install CCTVs in or outside respective premises. In an order by Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Dr. Piyush Singla (IAS), the CCTV HDD […]
India records 37,875 fresh COVID-19 cases
New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI) India logged 37,875 new cases of coronavirus infection taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,30,96,718, while the active cases declined to 3,91,256, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 4,41,411 with 369 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 […]