76,472 fresh cases take Covid tally in India past 34 lakh

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally raced past 34 lakh with a single-day spike of 76,472 cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 26,48,998, pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. The total number of COVID-19 cases rose to 34,63,972, while the death toll due to […]

Constitution, democracy in danger: Sonia Gandhi

Says influence of dictatoship on country's democracy rising

Raipur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday alleged that anti-national and anti-poor forces were spreading hatred and venom of violence in India and the influence of ‘tanashahi’ (dictatorship) on the country’s ‘lokshahi’ (democracy) was rising. She also said that the founding fathers of the country would have never imagined that the Constitution and democracy will […]

Reform: JK to have SCERT on the lines of NCERT

SRINAGAR: Aiming to achieve excellence in the field of education the administration has given an approval for establishing the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT). The Administrative Council (AC) which met under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, gave approval to establishment of SCERT by merging State Institutes of Education Jammu and […]

BSF detects tunnel along India-Pak border in Jammu

New Delhi/Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) has detected a tunnel just beneath the India-Pakistan international border fence in Jammu, officials said on Saturday. The force has launched a major search operation in the area to look for other such hidden structures that aid infiltration even as it is analysing the spotted structure, they said. […]

Jmu-Sgr highway reopens, stranded vehicles cleared

Banihal/Jammu: The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was cleared for stranded vehicles on Saturday after remaining closed for the past four days due to multiple landslides triggered by incessant rains at a dozen places in Ramban district, officials said. The highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for […]

Youth in Bijbehara resort to ‘self help’

Open own fruit Mandi as govt fails to establish one

Bijbehara: Alleging that the government failed on its promise of establishing a fruit Mandi in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara several educated youth in Dachnipora belt in Bijbehara area have opened their mini fruit mandis in the area. Locals from the area said that since the past eight years the authorities have been assuring the people that […]

17-year-old girl raped in Jammu, accused arrested

Jammu: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man here, following which the accused was arrested, police said on Saturday. The girl alleged that the accused, identified as Suraj Singh of Jourian, called her to the neighbour’s house on Friday and raped her, a police official said. Acting on the complaint of the teenager, […]

August receives 25 pc more rainfall, highest in 44 years: IMD

New Delhi: India has received the highest rainfall in the month of August in the last 44 years, IMD data shows, as several parts of the country have witnessed floods. Until August 28, the month recorded a 25-per cent surplus rainfall. It has also surpassed the previous highest rainfall in August, which was recorded in […]

Relatives of slain militants stage protest

Srinagar: Police used tear-smoke shells to disperse the relatives of slain militants outside Police Control Room (PCR) here in Kashmir capital Srinagar. Police said the relatives of militants mostly women pelted stone on police personnel deployed at Police Control Room. A police official said that over 40 to 50 relatives of the militants who were […]