Ladakh standoff: Hoping for amicable solution: Army Chief
Says collusive threat from China and Pak
New Delhi: Army chief Gen MM Naravane on Tuesday hoped for an amicable resolution of the military standoff with China in Ladakh through talks and based on “mutual and equal security” even as he said the collusive and potent threat from China and Pakistan to India cannot be “wished away”. Gen Naravane at the same […]
Centre should restore statehood, hold assembly polls: Bukhari
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday advocated the early restoration of statehood and holding of assembly elections in the Union Territory, asserting that the people desperately need a popular government as the present administration is paralysed . Bukhari also pitched for the immediate restoration of the 4G […]
WHO experts to directly fly to Wuhan to probe COVID-19 origins
Beijing: A 10-member team of WHO experts assigned to probe the origins of COVID-19 will directly fly from Singapore to the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December 2019, amid a resurgence of the deadly disease in several cities close to Beijing, prompting lockdowns. “Current plan is that they will […]
Dubai royals to hunt internationally protected bird in Pakistan
PM Imran Khan issues special permit
Islamabad: The Pakistan government has issued at least seven special permits to Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum and six other members of the ruling family to hunt the internationally protected bird houbara bustard during the 2020-21 hunting season, according to a media report on Tuesday. Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has earlier opposed […]
Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping : TADA court frames charges against Yasin Malik, 9 others
Jammu: A special TADA court has framed charges against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammd Yasin Malik and nine others in a 31-year-old kidnapping case involving Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. Malik is presently lodged in Tihar jail, Delhi, after he was arrested by the National […]
Kashmir to remain cutoff for five days
Jammu-Srinagar NH closed, repair work started: Officials
Banihal/Jammu: The 270-kilometre Jammu-Srinagar highway was closed for traffic after a portion of the road caved in near Ramban town, officials said on Monday, adding the repair work would take at least five days to restore the arterial route. A portion of the road near Kela Morh, about four km ahead of the Ramban district […]
Centre to bear expenses for first round of vaccination: PM
3 Cr healthcare, frontline workers to be inoculated
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that the central government will bear the expenses of vaccinating nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first round and suggested that public representatives, a reference to politicians, should not be part of this initial exercise. Interacting with state chief ministers, Modi underscored the […]