A Tokyo restaurant is honouring the crowning of the new Japanese emperor next month with a football-sized wagyu beef hamburger served between gold-dusted buns — at an eye-watering cost of $900. The juicy three-kilogram (six-pound) whopper, painstakingly prepared by chefs at the swanky Oak Door steakhouse in Tokyo’s […]
“Reiwa”: Japan on Monday revealed the name of the era that will define the new emperor’s reign when he ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne next month following a historic abdication. The new imperial name consists of two characters: “Rei”, which can mean “order” but also “auspicious” and “Wa”, usually […]
Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky topped the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election with almost twice the vote share of his nearest rival, incumbent Petro Poroshenko, partial results showed Monday. Zelensky’s political experience had been limited to playing the president in a TV show when he announced his long-shot candidacy […]
A Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother is to walk free after Malaysia dropped murder charges against her Monday, weeks after her Indonesian co-accused was also released. The 2017 killing of Kim Jong Nam with a toxic nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport […]
China announced Monday it will launch a crackdown on all fentanyl-like substances from May 1 following US pleas for Beijing to control a drug fuelling a deadly opioid crisis. China is suspected of being the main source of a powerful painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin that has […]
open view news desk SRINAGAR : Director Horticulture Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat today impressed upon the concerned officers to keep strict watch on the pesticide traders to curb the practices of selling spurious/substandard pesticides as per the provisions of law. The Director Horticulture said this during his meeting […]
open view news desk SRINAGAR : In continuation with its plantation drive, Forest Department distributed 1000 saplings of various conifer species including Deodar, Kail to a private School management free of cost in Srinagar. The Chief Conservator of Forests, Kashmir, Farooq Ahmad Gillani informed that during the current […]
open view news desk JAMMU : In order to carry out the necessary repairs and tree branch cutting at various places in Jammu city and its outskirts, the power supply to Babliana, Digiana, Deshmesh Nagar, Part of Gangyal, Jeevan Nagar and its adjoining areas fed from BL-2, BL-3, […]
open view news desk JAMMU : The Food Safety Authorities of J&K has declared the two packaged drinking water brands being sold in the market under the brand names “AQUA NICE” and “Mc Dowell’s No. 1 Platinum” as unsafe for human consumption and urged all the stakeholders to […]
open view news desk JAMMU : The Jammu and Kashmir State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) today carried out an anti-polythene drive in industrial area Gangyal Jammu and seized around 1380 kilograms of banned polythene material. The drive was conducted under the direct supervision of Member- Secretary J&K SPCB, […]
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