Mehbooba Mufti’s PSA revoked
Srinagar: PDP president and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti is being released after being in preventive detention for more than 14 months following the abrogation of Article 370 last year. “Ms. Mehbooba Mufti being released,” JK government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted. Mehbooba, who became the first woman chief minister of the […]
Pakistani dissidents blame military for country’s multiple crises
Washington: Terming Prime Minister Imran Khan as a “military puppet,” prominent Pakistani dissidents, including former and current members of parliament, have blamed the powerful army for the country’s fragility, insecurity and inability to get along with its neighbours. “Pakistan is under unannounced martial law,” Pashtun leader and former Senator Afrasiab Khattak told the fifth annual […]
Security of Sarpanches: BJP leader approaches NHRC, seeks intervention
Jammu: A BJP leader has approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to seek its intervention to ensure security of sarpanches facing militant threats in Kashmir. The NHRC has taken note of the matter and has forwarded it to the Union secretary for home affairs and Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary, calling for an action […]
Stop pursuing herd immunity to end coronavirus, warns WHO
London: The head of the World Health Organization warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic, dismissing such proposals as simply unethical.” At a media briefing, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health officials typically aim to achieve herd immunity by vaccination. Tedros noted that to obtain […]
Multiple sources to provide Covid vaccine to India: Union Minister
New Delhi: India is expected to have a COVID-19 vaccine from more than one source by early next year and the government is formulating distribution strategies for the immunisation of people across the country, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday. “We’re expecting that early next year we should have vaccine in the country […]
Congress leader demands restoration of JK’s statehood
Srinagar: Senior Congress leader Rajni Patil on Tuesday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir were angry about it being made a union territory and demanded restoration of its statehood as well as adequate constitutional safeguards for the protection of jobs and land rights. “It is for the first time that a state has been […]
Mortar shell defused near LoC
Jammu: A mortar shell, which did not unexploded during cross-border shelling by Pakistan, was on Tuesday safely defused by army experts near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch, officials said. The shell was noticed lying in an open field at Khari Karmara by villagers, who informed the army, the officials said. They said the […]
Veterans seek preservation of Mubarak Mandi, Shergarhi complex
Jammu: Over 120 eminent personalities have approached Lt Governor Manoj Sinha over the slow pace of work on the Mubarak Mandi palace in Jammu and a proposal to move some government offices into Shergarhi complex in Srinagar. People from both the regions have joined hands to approach the government for the preservation of the two […]
Ladakh records 70 new COVID-19 cases
Leh: Ladakh reported 70 fresh COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the union territory’s caseload to 5,151, an official bulletin said. All the new cases were detected in Leh district during the past 24 hours, it said. Eighty-nine more patients were discharged from different hospitals on Monday. Seven out of them were from Kargil district and […]