Pak militant associated with LeT sentenced 10 years imprisonment: NIA
Srinagar, Mar 31: National Investigation Agency (NIA), Wednesday said that a Pakistani militant from Lashkar-e-Toiba was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and also slapped with a fine for hatching conspiracy to carry out attacks in India. In a statement issued here, NIA spokesman said that last week Special Judge for NIA cases, Patiala House Courts, […]
India bounced back big way but not out of woods; real GDP growth to be 7.5 to 12.5 per cent: WB
Washington, Mar 31 (PTI) India’s economy has bounced back amazingly from the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown over the last one year, but it is not out of the woods yet, according to the World Bank, which in its latest report has predicted that the country’s real GDP growth for fiscal year 21/22 could range […]
India records 53,480 new COVID-19 cases, 354 deaths
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) As many as 53,480 fresh infections pushed India’s COVID-19 tally to 1,21,49,335, while 354 new fatalities, the highest single-day spike so far this year, took the death toll to 1,62,468, according to Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The country had recorded 355 deaths on December 17. The active […]
DMs authorised to take preventive steps to check Covid-19 spurt in JK
Jammu, Mar 31 (PTI) The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday authorized district magistrates to take preventive steps for curbing the spurt in coronavirus infection in the Union Territory. In fresh guidelines on Covid containment measures to be implemented from the next month, the J&K government also advised educational institutions to take full safety precautions, […]
Trendlines on human rights continue to move in the wrong direction: Blinken
Washington, Mar 31 (PTI) The trendlines on human rights continue to move in the wrong direction, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. Governments that respect human rights are more likely to support the rules-based international order that the US and its allies have built and invested in for decades and decades, Blinken said. […]
Pune tourist on visit to valley dies of Covid-19 at CD Hospital
Srinagar, Mar 31: A 70-year-old tourist from Maharashtra died of Covid-19 at a hospital here, officials said on Wednesday. They said that the elderly tourist was admitted to the Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar on March 30 after he complained breathlessness and showed other Covid-19 related symptoms. Confirming the death, a senior doctor at hospital said […]
Corona making a comeback
During the peak lockdown period last year Jammu and Kashmir used to report around 400 cases per day. This figure was reported despite every sector witnessing a closure and the entire healthcare setup was put to control the deadly virus from spreading. It was however, after almost a year long lockdown that all the sectors […]
A Global Concert for a new Global Era?
Asad Mirza Well, the murmurs were already there in the pre-Covid era that the plans are afoot to change the present global governance and usher in a new world order. But now things have slowly started falling in place. Influential think tanks and world bodies are flush with new insights or analytical interpretation of the […]
Letter to the Editor
Curb negative election campaigns The assembly elections campaigns in the five States are creating hate politics. Leaders of all parties are attempting their best to tilt voters towards each other by accusing the opposition. The works which the ruling party has performed for the betterment and development of the public in the last five years […]
Tears fall in my heart
Nasreen Begum Kashmir has proud of literacy and language which started its journey centuries ago that grew consistently rich reaching Adnan Shafi who captivates the fadedness of heart by the consecutive sadism (Wizened heart) Wrap your little fingers around my beating heart Sink your nails deep into the walls of my heart to break my […]