Breakthrough: COVID-19 treatments for better protection against future variants identified
London: Researchers have identified new therapies for COVID-19 that they say could provide better protection against future variants and outbreaks. An international team led by researchers from the University of Kent in the UK and the Goethe-University in Germany tested the sensitivity of different SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta viruses to combinations of the four currently […]
IAF rescues Israeli national from high-altitude area in Ladakh
Srinagar: The Indian Air Force on Wednesday rescued an Israeli national who was stuck at a height of more than 16,000 feet near Markha Valley in Ladakh. “On 31 August 2022, 114 Helicopter Unit received a call for casualty evacuation from Nimaling Camp near Markha Valley. The Israeli national, Atar Kahana, was suffering from high-altitude […]
Did not receive any donation in excess of Rs 20,000 in 2018-19, 2020-21: NC to poll panel
New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference has informed the Election Commission that it did not receive any donation in excess of Rs 20,000 from individual donors and entities during financial years 2018-19 and 2020-21. The party’s contribution reports for the two fiscals were put in public domain by the poll panel on Wednesday. […]
PM Modi expresses anguish over deaths in Kishtwar accident

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed anguish at the loss of lives in a road accident in Kishtwar district and announced compensation to the families of the victims. Eight people were killed and three others suffered serious injuries when their car skidded off the road and plunged into a 300-feet gorge in […]
Eight killed as car falls into gorge in Kishtwar

LG expresses grief, directs to provide best treatment for the injured
Kishtwar/Jammu: Eight people, including a 16-year-old girl, were killed and three others sustained serious injuries when the car in which they were travelling skidded off the road and plunged into a 300-feet gorge in Kishtwar district Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. The vehicle was on its way from Chingam to Chatroo and the accident occurred […]
Cong calls Azad ‘selfish’, says he left party when tasked to serve JK
Jammu: The Congress on Tuesday called Gulam Nabi Azad a “selfish person” and said he left the party when he was tasked to render his services in Jammu and Kashmir. It said Azad forgot the favours done to him by the party leadership by giving him important responsibilities in the past 50 years. “A sadhu […]
Former Dy CM among 64 Cong leaders resign in support of Azad
Jammu: The spate of resignations in the Jammu and Kashmir Congress continued unabated with 64 more leaders including a former deputy chief minister tendering their resignation and joining the Ghulam Nabi Azad camp on Tuesday, leaving the unit of the national party in the Union Territory in tatters. Led by former deputy chief minister Tara […]
Eastern Ladakh row: Indian graziers stopped by Chinese troops near LAC in Demchok
New Delhi: Indian graziers were stopped by Chinese troops from moving ahead near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Demchok region of eastern Ladakh over a week ago, people familiar with the development said on Monday. There was no face-off or confrontation between the Indian and Chinese forces in view of the incident […]
China’s infringements along India’s border violation of international order: Germany
New Delhi: China’s infringements along India’s border are a violation of the international order and should not be accepted, but at the same time, there is a need to understand Europe’s outrage over the Russian attack on Ukraine, German Ambassador Philipp Ackermann said on Monday. In an interaction with the media, the newly-appointed envoy also […]
Three local LeT terrorists killed in Shopian encounter
Srinagar: Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday, police said. The security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Shopian’s Nagbal following information about the presence of terrorists there, a police official said. He said the search operation turned into an encounter, in which […]