‘Focus on Covid-19 at home’: Beijing to US after expelling US warship from South China Sea
China scrambled aircraft and sortied ships to track and expel a frontline US warship from near a Beijing-controlled island chain in the South China Sea on Tuesday, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has said. Accusing the guided-missile destroyer USS Barry of carrying out a “provocative act” and violating Chinese sovereignty, the PLA’s southern command said […]
P Chidambaram spotlights MSMEs concern on paying April wages, advises govt
Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide Rs 1 lakh crore wage protection assistance to 6.3 crore Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to help them pay wages and salaries to 110 million people engaged in these MSMEs for the month of April. And for non-MSMEs, he said the government should announce […]
Actor Irrfan passes away at the age of 53
Actor Irrfan passes away at the age of 53. He was rushed to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital yesterday due to breathing issues. The actor was suffering from neuroendocrine tumour.
Shopian gunfight: Third militant killed, operation over
Three militants were killed while as an army officer, a soldier and a civilian were injured in an encounter at Melhoora village of Zainapora area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district officials said. The Mehloora gunfight started yesterday and all three militant bodies have been recovered while as a woman sustained injury. Pertinently, four militants of AGH […]
Shopian gunfight :Fresh firing resumes, army major injured
An army major was injured after a fresh firing resumed at Melhoora area of Shopian district in south Kashmir on Wednesday. Official sources told that when forces were searching for third militant body at encounter site, the militant hiding under debris fired upon forces. In this incident a army Major was injured, identified as Major […]
Why Abdullahs, Mehbooba are silent on Article 370 and what it means for Kashmir politics
Srinagar: It’s been more than a month since former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers and National Conference leaders Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah were released from detention, but they have remained silent on the scrapping of Article 370 by the Narendra Modi government last August. Mehbooba Mufti, president of their rival Peoples Democratic Party and also a former chief minister, […]
‘Biased And Tendentious’: India Rejects US Panel Report On Religious Freedom
India on Tuesday rejected its criticism by a US commission on religious freedom, terming its observations on condition of minorities and religious freedom as “biased and tendentious”. In the 2020 edition of its annual report on International Religious Freedom, the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) alleged that religious freedom in India witnessed a […]
US Religious Freedom Monitor Recommends Designating India as ‘Country of Particular Concern’
New Delhi: A US government body monitoring international religious freedom has recommended that the state department include India in the list of “countries of special concern,” joining a group of 13 other countries that include China, Pakistan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Unveiling the 2020 annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious […]
Domestic makers of rapid kits in a fix as ICMR halts their use
Local manufacturers of antibody based rapid testing kits (RTKs) for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), whose kits were validated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and approved by the Central Drugs Standard Organisation (CDSCO), seem to be grappling with a sense of uncertainty as they are yet to receive any orders from the ICMR. […]
Covid cases climb to 31,000, spike puts deaths over 1,000
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in India crossed the 30,000 mark on Tuesday while that of fatalities due to the pandemic exceeded 1,000, as the country maintained a precarious grip on a disease that officials fear could peak over the next couple of months. According data disclosed by state health departments, the total number of Covid-19 […]