India go top of ODI rankings with series win over New Zealand
Indore: India have leapt to the top of the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s ODI Team Rankings following their win over New Zealand in the third and final ODI on Tuesday. India’s victory over New Zealand in Indore completed a clean sweep in the three-match ODI series. They won the first ODI, a high-scoring thriller at […]
Shah Faesal posted as Dy Secy Tourism
Srinagar: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has reinstated Jammu and Kashmir’s IAS officer Shah Faesal and posted him as Deputy Secretary in the Union Ministry for Tourism. Faesal, a 2010 batch IAS topper of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir cadre, now AGMUT, had resigned from the services in January 2019 and formed political party […]
Over 1.79 lakh new Covid cases reported across India
New Delhi: India on Monday recorded 1,79,723 fresh Covid-19 cases, pushing the active caseload to 7,23,619, officials said. The daily positivity rate stood at 13.29 per cent, while 146 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours. The country will begin administering the third ‘precautionary doses’ to priority groups — health care workers, frontline workers […]
Chopper carrying CDS Bipin Rawat crashes in Tamil Nadu
Srinagar: Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat was among top Army officers on board an IAF helicopter which crashed in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, reports said. News agency ANI while quoting sources reported that General Rawat, his wife and other staff were on board the Mi series chopper that crashed in the area falling […]
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Down
New Delhi: WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have gone down in several parts of the world, users reported on Monday evening. All three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure. “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” a message on the Facebook […]
Unidentified male body fished out from Jhelum
Sopore: An unidentified male body was on Saturday found in river Jhelum near Jamia bridge of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to the news agency KNO, some locals spotted the body floating over water at Jamia bridge in Sopore and immediately informed police about it. A police team reached the spot and recovered […]
Shaheen leads Pakistan to 109-run win over West Indies
Kingston: Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi took 10 wickets in the match as the tourists bowled West Indies out on Monday to win the second test at Sabina Park and tie the two-match series. Shaheen claimed 4-43 to add to career best figures of 6-51 in the first innings as West Indies were dismissed for 219 […]
Ex-Deputy CM who slammed govt land transfer was also ‘illegal occupant’
Srinagar: Former Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Kavinder Gupta, who had disparaged the transfer of state land under the controversial Roshni Act to private individuals as “land jihad” in the run-up to the DDC elections last November, was himself an illegal occupant of state land from 2010 till the beginning of 2017, The […]
Minor side effects after getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be treated with paracetamol: Dr Khurshid
Srinagar: Dr Khurshid Ahmad Bhat, Consultant Endocrinologist in Super Speciality Hospital Srinagar, on Monday said that wearing a mask below the chin doesn’t serve its purpose and venturing out unnecessarily is affecting the management and containment of the virus. Dr Khurshid made a fervent appeal to the people to follow the new guidelines and SoPs. […]
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha visits Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad
AHMADABAD: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today visited Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad to take on-spot assessment and get first-hand information on the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, on whose lines Tawi Riverfront in Jammu would be developed. The Lt Governor discussed in detail about the challenges and best practices adopted during the development of Sabarmati Riverfront, besides […]
