Srinagar: National Conference (NC) president and MP Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday visited Baltal to review preparations for the annual Amarnath Yatra which begins early next month. Abdullah, the Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, discussed with the concerned authorities the availability of facilities for the pilgrims, including healthcare, electricity, water supply and sanitation, and disaster management among…
Kathmandu: The triple whammy of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine-Russia war, and frequent natural disasters have made the food security system in South Asia more vulnerable while increasing the prevalence of undernourishment in the region, including in India, according to an international report. The Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) 2023 launched by the International Food…
New Delhi: Doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna will once again be the flag-bearer of India’s hopes in tennis at the Asian Games as the All India Tennis Association (AITA) on Tuesday announced a 12-member squad for the continental quadrennial games. The Asian Games will begin in Hangzhou on September 23 with the men’s team comprising Sumit Nagal,…
London: Hamish Harding, a British businessman who collaborated with the Indian government to reintroduce eight wild cheetahs from Namibia to India, is among five people who went missing in the Atlantic Ocean aboard a tourist submersible on a mission to view the wreckage of the iconic ocean liner the Titanic. British-Pakistani billionaire businessman Shahzada Dawood and…
Islamabad: Pakistan, currently in the throes of a major political as well as economic crisis, has started preparations for the general elections with a meeting of the election body chaired by its chief reviewing the arrangements made so far to organise polls in a fair and free manner later this year. Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar…
Lahore: Two teenage girls and a man were killed while a man’s nose and an ear were cut off “in the name of honour” in three separate incidents in Punjab province of Pakistan, police said on Tuesday. In the first incident in Sargodha district of Punjab, some 200 kilometres from Lahore, police said Naseer Ahmad suspected…
Islamabad: Key leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) are holding meetings to sort out their disagreement over budget amid rumours of intensifying discord between the two major parties of the coalition government ahead of the general election, according to media reports. The attempt by the PML-N and PPP to sort out…
New Delhi: COVID-19 is on the verge of becoming endemic but Indian scientists are keeping a close watch on each new variant and the government would continue to maintain a high alert, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has said, underlining that the virus has managed to survive and is going to stay. In an exclusive…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed pleas challenging a Calcutta High Court order directing the State Election Commission (SEC) to requisition and deploy central forces across West Bengal for the upcoming panchayat elections. A vacation bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Manoj Misra said the fact remains that the tenor of the high…
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court’s decision on the deployment of central forces for the upcoming panchayat elections in West Bengal, terming it a “lesson” for the Mamata Banerjee government and a “moral defeat” for the Trinamool Congress. The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed pleas challenging a Calcutta High Court order directing…
