Smoking, alcohol, high BMI leading causes of global cancer deaths: Lancet study
Washington: Smoking, alcohol use, high body mass index (BMI), and other known risk factors were responsible for nearly 4.45 million global cancer deaths in 2019, according to study published in The Lancet journal on Friday. The findings can help policymakers and researchers identify key risk factors that could be targeted in efforts to reduce deaths […]
Army defuses unexploded ordnance shell in Samba
Jammu: Army troops detected and defused an unexploded ordnance shell in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Friday, officials said. Soldiers of the Tiger division assisted the civil administration in carrying out safe extrication of the unexploded ordnance shell from a heavily populated area near Kikri Morh in Balole Nala of Samba, they said. They […]
Weapons dropping case: Accused dies in jail
Jammu: A suspected member of a terrorist module involved in collection and ferrying of weapons and explosives dropped via drones along the International Border in Jammu frontier died after suffering a heart attack in the Kotbalwal jail here, officials said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the module involved in the May 29 […]
Any Indian ‘ordinarily residing’ at a place eligible to vote there: Govt
Says post-Article 370 and applicability of RPA rules have changed
Jammu: Amid controversy over inclusion of outside voters in Jammu and Kashmir electoral rolls, government officials Thursday cited rules to assert that any citizen of India who has attained the qualifying age and “ordinarily residing” at a place is eligible to get registered as a voter. Upping its ante, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah […]
President Murmu prorogues Parliament
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu has prorogued both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha after the two Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die on August 8. “The Lok Sabha which commenced its ninth session on July 18 has been prorogued by the president on August 17,” according to an official communication from the […]
Ghulam Nabi Azad calls on Vice Prez Dhankhar
New Delhi: Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday called on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar here. The Vice President’s Secretariat tweeted about the meeting between Dhankhar and the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister. Azad had been a member of the Rajya Sabha. Dhankhar took over as the Vice President on August 11. “Former Union […]
