Myanmar protest plan for general strike draws junta threat
Yangon, Feb 22 (AP) A call for a Monday general strike by demonstrators in Myanmar protesting the military’s February 1 seizure of power has been met by the ruling junta with a thinly veiled threat to use lethal force, raising the possibility of major clashes. The call for a general strike was made on Sunday […]
US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000
Washington, Feb 22 (AP) The US stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns […]
JK reports 84 new positive cases, 123192 recovered so far
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 21-The Government on Sunday informed that 84 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 16 from Jammu division and 68 from Kashmir division, have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 125867. Moreover, 63 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various […]
BJP leader raises issue of delay in property registration, seeks LG intervention
Jammu, Feb 21 (PTI) A senior BJP leader Sunday claimed that people are facing huge inconvenience due to delays in registration of documents pertaining to immovable properties and sought the intervention of the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha. Raman Suri, a BJP executive member, said the new department of registration under the Revenue Department was established […]
JK issue can only be settled through talks between India-Pak: Mehbooba
Srinagar, Feb 21 (PTI) PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that neither war nor the gun are solutions, and the issue of Jammu and Kashmir can be only settled through talks between India and Pakistan. The Centre should also engage the people of the union territory in the dialogue process, she said after visiting […]
Herd immunity difficult to achieve: AIIMS Director
New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) Herd immunity is “very difficult” to achieve and one should not think of it in “practical terms” in India, especially in the times of “variant strains” of COVID-19 and “waning immunity”, claimed AIIMS director Randeep Guleria on Sunday. Guleria was speaking at the ongoing edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) […]
Fuel prices at ‘historic, unsustainable’ high: Sonia
New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) Writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over “spiralling” fuel and gas prices, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday accused the government of “profiteering” off “people’s misery” and demanded a rollback of the increase in prices. In a letter to Modi, she said the truth is that as GDP “nosedives”, the […]
Three of family dead as vehicles falls into gorge in Kishtwar
Jammu, Feb 21 (PTI) Three members of a family were killed on Sunday after their car skidded off the road and plunged into a 250-feet gorge in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kahmir, police said. Jassi Devi (50), her son Nitin Kumar (27) and daughter Kajal (20) died on the spot in the accident, a […]
Suspicion cannot take the place of proof: SC
New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) Suspicion, however strong, cannot take the place of proof, the Supreme Court has said, stressing that an accused is presumed to be innocent unless proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. There has to be a chain of evidence so complete as to show that in all human probability the act […]
Police busts hideout, arms recovered
Srinagar, Feb 21: Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a militant hideout in south Kashmir’s Anantnag forest area. Police said that a militant hideout was busted by Anantnag police in Anantnag forest area of South Kashmir. A police spokesman said that arms and ammunition recovered from the hideout include AK 56/3, Chinese pistol 02, […]