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...