Minimum spot power price dips to 70 paisa/unit for supply on Sunday
New Delhi: The blackout call has a bearing on energy market as spot power price dropped to around 70 paisa per unit for supply during the 15 minutes block from 9PM to 9:15 PM on Sunday at Indian Energy Exchange. The minimum spot power price was around Rs 2 per unit for supplies for Saturday […]
East Bengal signs Iranian winger Omid Singh
Kolkata: East Bengal on Sunday signed Indian-origin Iranian midfielder Omid Singh for a two-year deal. “Omid has signed with us for two years. He will join us once the next season starts,” East Bengal top official Debabrata Sarkar said here. The 29-year-old left-winger, who originally hails from Punjab and holds an Indian passport, currently plies […]
Army to assist JK admin in fight against Covid-19, opens command hospital
Udhampur: Lending its support to the Jammu and Kashmir administration in the fight against coronavirus, the Army on Sunday said it has opened its command hospital here to test samples of suspected cases. The hospital is fully equipped to deal with patients infected with the disease and many wards have been converted into corona-specific intensive […]
Landslide halts traffic for seven hours on Jammu-Srinagar Highway
Banihal/Jammu: A massive landslide struck the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district early Sunday, disrupting the movement of vehicles carrying essential commodities to Kashmir. The landslide blocked the highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, at Maroog near Ramban town, at 3 am, officials said. “The road clearance agencies […]
Army foils infiltration bid in Kupwara, 5 militants, one soldier killed
Srinagar: Five militants and a soldier were killed as the Army foiled an infiltration bid by terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said here on Sunday. “In an ongoing anti-infiltration operation in Keran sector of North Kashmir, alert troops braving inclement weather and hostile […]
Soldier commits suicide in Samba
Jammu: An Army jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle inside a camp in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. Makhan Lal (40), posted with the 6th Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, was on sentry duty at Border Road camp when he fatally shot himself with his […]
100-yr-old man dies in quarantine in Udhampur, COVID-19 test report negative
Jammu: A 100-year-old man has died in a quarantine centre in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir but his COVID-19 test report has come negative, a senior government official said on Sunday. The man and his brother were shifted to a quarantine facility a few days ago as a precautionary measure after it came to […]
Omar showers praise on Uddhav Thackeray
Srinagar: Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah on Sunday showered praise on Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, apparently for the way the latter is handling the COVID-19 situation in his state. “UddhavThackeray has been a revelation,” Omar tweeted. The Maharashtra chief minister, the first Thackeray to rule the state, has been lauded […]
Coronavirus: Restrictions in Kashmir Valley tightened
Srinagar: Restrictions on the movement and assembly of people in Kashmir to contain the spread of coronavirus were tightened on Sunday a day after 14 cases the highest increase in a single day — were detected in the valley, the officials said. Security forces sealed off the main roads in the valley and erected barriers […]
1,023 COVID-19 positive cases with links to Tablighi Jamaat reported from 17 states: Health ministry
New Delhi: As many as 1,023 COVID-19 positive cases found in 17 states have been traced to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday, underlining that about 30 per cent of the total coronavirus cases in the country are linked to “one particular place”. Joint Secretary in the ministry Lav Agarwal […]
