WHO clears coronavirus vaccine for emergency use
Geneva: The World Health Organization says it has cleared the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, meaning poorer countries may soon get access to the shot already available in Europe and North America. Every country that has a drug regulatory agency will have to issue its own approval for any COVID-19 vaccine, but countries with […]
Intense cold wave conditions return to Kashmir
North India too feels the chill
Srinagar/ New Delhi: The cold wave sweeping Kashmir intensified on Thursday as the mercury fell several notches to settle well below the freezing point across the valley, officials said here. Srinagar city — the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir — recorded a low of minus 5.9 degrees Celsius, which was over three degrees below […]
2020 witnessed decline in cross border infiltration: DGP
Says 225 militants were killed in JK
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir has seen a decrease in militancy incidents, infiltration and civilian killings in 2020, while security forces carried out more than 100 “successful” counter-terrorism operations killing 225 militants, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Thursday. Addressing the annual press conference of Jammu and Kashmir Police, Singh said, “We undertook over […]
Farm protests: Farmers say no to New Year celebrations
Seek fulfillment of all demands
New Delhi: Thousands of farmers protesting at the Singhu border for over a month now will ring in the New Year sans any celebrations. “There is no New Year for us until the government accepts our demands,” said Harjinder Singh from Punjab’s Ropar, who has been camping at the Delhi-Haryana border since November 25. In […]
70 years of Sino-India diplomatic ties: Standoff in Ladakh cleaned out celebratory mood
Beijing: It was meant to be a year of grand celebrations to mark 70 years of diplomatic relations between China and India, but the Chinese aggression in eastern Ladakh in May has profoundly disturbed bilateral ties, carefully developed after the 1962 war. Twenty Indian soldiers besides an unknown number of Chinese troops were killed in […]
9th round of Commander-level meet on Ladakh standoff soon
Beijing: China and India are in consultations to hold the ninth round of Corps Commander-level meeting to discuss the disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh, the Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Sr. Colonel Tan Kefei said on Thursday. Since the eighth round of Corps Commander-level talks between the armies of China and India, the two sides […]
Pakistan to procure 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccines from China
Islamabad: Pakistan has decided to pre-book 1.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm, the health ministry said here on Thursday, as the number of coronavirus cases reached 479,715 after 2,475 new infections were detected in the country. China on Thursday granted conditional approval to the country’s first homegrown COVID-19 […]
