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Daily Archives: September 8, 2020

Panel begins review of global health treaty

UNITED NATIONS: The WHO-appointed committee, mandated to review the global treaty governing responses to international health emergencies, will begin its work tomorrow.

Brexit in crisis as UK threatens to undermine divorce treaty

LONDON: Britain's tortuous divorce from the European Union veered into fresh crisis on Monday after London signalled it could undermine the exit...

California fires burn record 2m acres

NORTH FORK: Wildfires in California have torched a record more than two million acres, the state fire department said Monday, as an...

Govt defers SMC Mayoral elections for three more months

SRINAGAR: Nearly over a month after effecting legal changes in the law governing the election through an executive order, the government in Jammu...

Saudi scraps death sentences over Khashoggi murder, jails 8

RIYADH: A Saudi court overturned five death sentences over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, in a final ruling that was condemned by his...

Bihar Elections: Nitish Kumar kicks off poll campaign

PATNA: Fashioning his campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections around 15 years of his rule versus a decade-and-half of the Lalu-Rabri government,...

2 decades on, Baramulla’s Jetty bridge awaits completion

BARAMULLA: After elapsing twenty years, the authorities have miserably failed to complete the Jetty Bridge in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, thus simultaneously leaving...

Education policy will help make India self-reliant: PM

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the new National Education Policy (NEP) has been prepared after widespread consultations and is...

In times of Covid, a flu shot must for everyone, say experts

Quadrivalent vaccine must be given to whole people in September: Dr Nissar Ul Hassan SRINAGAR: With the Coronavirus still spreading...

Govt working on livelihood plan for IB dwellers

NEW DELHI: As part of its strategy to ensure local support for the forces, the Centre has worked out a special plan...