Workshop on NID Scheme held in Srinagar
SRINAGAR, JUNE 29: Directorate of Industries and Commerce organized an awareness workshop on ‘New Industrial Development (NID) Scheme’ to disseminate information among the entrepreneurs at Sanat Ghar, Bemina here today. On the occasion, Joint Secretary Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Industries and Commerce, Government of India, Dr Vandana Kumar informed that […]
Social Media- A blessing or a Curse!
By: Suhail Ahmad With the advent of internet, the world definitely saw a paradigm shift with distances becomes too fragile to stop people conversing with each other while being continents apart. Communication is very easy and swift now. Social media is one of the recent additions to this; by definition social media is any that […]
Trump shuts out the world
Check this out. With more than 1.8 billion population, Muslims are currently the second largest religious community in the world after Christianity. Islam’s followers form nearly 25 percent of humanity. According to a much cited global survey by the Pew Research Centre last year, in the next half century or so, Christianity’s long reign as […]
Reigning champion Pliskova knocked out at Eastbourne
EASTBOURNE: Reigning champion Karolina Pliskova was surprisingly knocked out of the Eastbourne tournament on Thursday after squandering a three-game lead in the final set. It seemed Pliskova was on course to reach the semi-finals of the grass-court event that acts as a warm-up for Wimbledon but surrendered her advantage against 20-year-old Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka to […]
ICC launches integrity app
Dubai: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday announced the launch of an integrity app as part of its ongoing commitment to protect the spirit and integrity of the game. The ICC Integrity App will give anyone in the game easy access to information they need to tackle issues relating to anti-corruption and anti-doping. The […]
Where women are without fear
A new survey says India is the most dangerous country for women. It should be an occasion, not for defensiveness and denial, but for serious reflection and the joining of forces for women’s equality.
By: Zakia Soman A recent survey by Thomson Reuters Foundation found that India is the most dangerous country for women. In this poll, India ranks below Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and Saudi Arabia on the six issues surveyed. These were healthcare, access to economic resources and discrimination, customary practices, sexual violence, non-sexual violence and human trafficking. […]
Beyond militarism
Unabated violence in Kashmir is indicative of the unfortunate reality that all is not just as fine here as people otherwise are expected to believe it is. With certain sections in the political establishment seemingly believing that they can resolve Kashmir at the back of its military onslaught on the militants, as could be made […]
Modi-Fadnavis dictators, noise against Emergency a farce: Sena
Mumbai, Jun 29 : Slamming the central and the Maharashtra governments over the Nanar refinery project, the Shiv Sena today dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis dictators and claimed that the noise made by them against the Emergency was a farce. In an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the Sena also […]
DDC Bandipora visits Yatra transit camp Shadipora
BANDIPORA, JUNE 29: District Development Commissioner Bandipora Khursheed Ahmad Sanai today visited the Yatra transit camp at Shadipora Sumbal to take stock of the arrangements put in place for smooth conduct of Amarnathji Yatra. ASP Bandipora, SDM Sonawari, District Nodal Officer ISM Health Bandipora besides other officers accompanied the DDC. The DDC reviewed the facilities […]
EU leaders agree to roll over Russia economic sanctions
Brussels, Jun 29: European Union leaders agreed at a summit today to extend punishing economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine for a further six months, the bloc said. The EU first imposed the sanctions in July 2014 after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014 was shot down over Ukraine, killing 298 […]
