Month: March 2019

Governor inaugurates Dr. Karan Singh Library for Senior Citizens

open view news desk JAMMU, MARCH 10: Governor Satya Pal Malik today inaugurated Dr. Karan Singh Library for Senior Citizens at Gulab Bhawan, Jammu. Dr. Karan Singh, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Shri K Vijay Kumar, Advisor to Governor, Shri Chander Mohan Gupta, Mayor JMC besides prominent […]

No survivors as Ethiopian Airlines crashes with 157 aboard

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed Sunday morning en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew on board, state media reported as African leaders offered condolences. “We hereby confirm that our scheduled flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi was involved […]

Dr Shahid Iqbal launches Pulse Polio Immunisation programme in Srinagar

open view news desk SRINAGAR, MARCH 10: Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Sunday launched the Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization programme in the district as part of Kashmir-wide campaign in which children up to the age of 5 are being administered poliomyelitis vaccine. The programme was launched […]

Pulse polio immunization program held across Jammu Division

open view news desk JAMMU, MARCH 10: The First round of 3-Day campaign Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) programme was started across Jammu Division under which the children upto the age of 5 years are being administered anti-polio vaccine. At Doda near about 75000 children below 5 years […]

Turbulence injures 30 on flight from Istanbul to New York

NEW YORK — Severe turbulence tossed terrified passengers and crew around a Turkish Airlines plane cabin as it passed over Maine on Saturday, with 30 people suffering bumps, bruises, cuts and a broken leg before the flight landed safely at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials […]

First time in Baghdad: Iran’s president to visit Iraq

TEHRAN, Iran  — Iran’s president is making his first official visit to Iraq this week as he faces mounting pressure from hard-liners at home in the wake of the Trump administration’s unraveling of the nuclear deal. Hassan Rouhani’s trip — billed as “historic and noble” by his foreign […]

Town by town, local journalism is dying in plain sight

WAYNESVILLE, Mo.  — Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder. The earplug in his left ear is attached to a police scanner in his […]

No survivors in Ethiopian Airlines crash en route to Kenya

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination, Nairobi. More than 30 nationalities were among the dead. It was […]

Cong welcomes declaration of Lok Sabha election schedule

New Delhi, Mar 10: The Congress welcomed the declaration of the Lok Sabha election schedule and said the victory will be of the truth. Soon after the declaration of the polls by the Election Commission, the Congress put out a two-minute video entitled ‘aarambh hai prachand’ (the beginning of […]

EC imposes model code of conduct with immediate effect

New Delhi, Mar 10: The Election Commission on Sunday imposed model code of conduct’ with immediate effect for the Lok Sabha elections and announced that voter verifiable paper audit trail’ will be used in all polling stations this time. Among other things, the model code of conduct bars the […]

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