Month: February 2022

J&K Sport Policy 2022 accords importance to vibrant incentivized sports ecosystem in UT

Transforming J&K J&K Sport Policy 2022 accords importance to vibrant incentivized sports ecosystem in UT ‘Scout’, ‘Engage’, ‘Facilitate’, and ‘Recognise’ are its basic cannons JAMMU, FEBRUARY 05: In order to make the sports lucrative for youth, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has sanctioned the implementation of Jammu & […]

World Wetland Day commemorated at Pampore

SRINAGAR, FEBRUARY 05: A function was today organized by the Department of Wildlife Protection, Wetlands Division Kashmir at Government Degree College, Pampore (Pampore Wetland Conservation Reserve) famous Wetlands of Jammu & Kashmir to commemorate the Week of World Wetland Day (WWD). On the occasion, Tehsildar, Pampore Ishtiyaq Mohi […]

Australia Deputy PM apologises for calling PM Morrison ‘hypocrite and liar’

Feb 5 – Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce apologised on Saturday to Prime Minister Scott Morrison for calling him “a hypocrite and a liar” and said that Morrison had rejected his offer to resign. Morrison said in a statement that he accepted Joyce’s apology. In a leaked […]

Moroccan rescuers get within metres of reaching child trapped in well

RABAT, Feb 5 – Rescuers on Saturday dug to within a few metres of reaching a young boy who has been trapped for five days in a well in northern Morocco, a delicate and dangerous operation constantly delayed by rocks and imperilled by the threat of landslides. Workers […]

UN experts: Darfur rebel groups make money in Libya

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. experts say rebel groups in Darfur that signed a peace agreement with the Sudanese government in 2020 continue to operate in Libya and profit from opportunities provided by the civil war and lack of government control in the oil-rich north African nation. In a […]

EXPLAINER: Ukraine not joining NATO so why does Putin worry?

WASHINGTON — At the core of the Ukraine crisis is a puzzle: Why would Russian President Vladimir Putin push Europe to the brink of war to demand the West not do something that it has no plan to do anyway? Russia says NATO, the American-led alliance that has […]

PM kickstarts 50th Anniversary Celebrations of ICRISAT and inaugurates two research facilities

“Your research and technology have helped making agriculture easy and sustainable” “Pro planet people movement is not limited to just words, but is also reflected in the actions of the Government of India” “India’s focus is on the fusion of ‘back to basic’ and ‘march to future’ to […]

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, FEBRUARY 5: 168.98 cr vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive India’s Active caseload currently stands at 13,31,648 Active cases stand at 3.16% Recovery Rate currently at 95.64% 2,30,814 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 4,02,47,902 1,27,952 new cases recorded […]

ISIS leader Quraishi kills himself during Syria raid, U.S. says

Summary Biden says U.S. took measures to minimise civilian harm Quraishi blew himself up, also killing family members Northwestern Syria is haven for several jihadist groups AMMAN/WASHINGTON, Feb 3 – The leader of Islamic State died when he blew himself and family members up during a U.S. military […]

China’s pandemic Olympics begins, with lockdown and boycotts

BEIJING — The country where the coronavirus outbreak emerged two years ago launched a locked-down Winter Olympics on Friday, proudly projecting its might on the most global of stages even as some Western governments mounted a diplomatic boycott over the way China treats millions of its own people. The opening […]

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