UN Tuesday condemned the ISIL attack on civilian-populated areas in As-Sweida in southwest Syria last Wednesday which left more than 200 people dead, while more than two dozen women were taken hostage. “We have received reports that more than 200 people were killed and injured in multiple attacks, including suicide bombings in As-Sweida City and […]
Srinagar: The Indian authorities should ensure that documenting and updating the names of citizens in the northeastern state of Assam is transparent and nondiscriminatory, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International India said today. The potential exclusion of over 4 million people, many of them Muslims, raises concerns over arbitrary detention and possible statelessness without due […]
NEW DELHI: The central government has begun its search for a new Governor for Jammu and Kashmir as they have decided not to continue with NN Vohra, NDTV reported. Vohra has handled the state for more than a decade but according to report will not be given another term. “Search is on for a new face […]
Mumbai: Pharma Major Aurobindo Pharma said that it has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Bivalirudin injection, 250 mg/vial. The approved ANDA is a generic equivalent to the reference listed drug (RLD) product Angiomax Injection of The Medicines Company, the company said in a filing with […]
Mumbai: Opening higher by 40 points, the benchmark index of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) immediately went down on Tuesday by 158.22 points to 37,336.18 as selling was witnessed in Materials, Energy, FMCG, Finance and Telecom stocks. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) too eased by 35.05 points to 11,284.50. In scrips like Tata Motors DVR, Axis […]
SHOPIAN: Militants on Monday night barged into the houses of three police constables, thrashed and asked them to resign from their job. The incident happened in Shopian villages of South Kashmir. Police sourced confirmed the incident. “During intervening night three constables identified as Jahangir Wagay, Faizan Wagay, and Danish Bhat, all residents of Nadpora […]
Srinagar: Three witnesses have moved High court against Special Investigation Team of Crime Branch that is handling the kathua rape and murder case of a minor girl from nomadic community. According to reports High Court after hearing Advocate Ankur Sharma seeks reply from the Home Secretary and all individual members of the SIT on the […]
Hyderabad: Planet Mars will get closest to Earth in 15 years on Tuesday at 57.59 million km and next it will occur only in 2035, Planetary Society, India (PSI) said. PSI Director and Founder Secretary N Sri Raghunandan Kumar said that this closest approach is due once in 26 months celestial event ‘Mars Opposition to […]
Anantnag:- District Bar Association Anantnag, Islamabad Tuesday held a protest rally from court premises up to Lal Chowk against ‘attempts to scrap Article 35 A’. The protest was led by President Bar Association Anantnag Fayaz Sadogar and General Secretary Sheikh Irfan Gulzar, who said that any fiddling with the article 35A will create ‘dire consequences […]
Srinagar: Fresh batches of pilgrims left base camps on Tuesday for the holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, where so far 2.63 lakh yatris have paid obeisance since the commencement of the 60-day-long pilgrimage from June 28. Weather is pleasant and pilgrimage was progressing smoothly from the shortest and traditional Pahalgam tracks, official […]
