The UK and European Union (EU) face a “furious race against time” to finalise Brexit talks before March 2019, the head of the European Council says. Donald Tusk urged EU leaders to show unity as they try to negotiate what the future relationship will look like and to set up transitional arrangements, BBC reported on […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned the international community that it was losing the battle against global warming and called on the world leaders to take concrete action. Macron on Tuesday hosted the One Planet Summit in Paris, an event marking the two-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement on mitigating global warming that brought together […]
Democrat Doug Jones knocked off Republican Roy Moore in the race for an Alabama Senate seat “dealing a stunning blow” to US President Donald Trump, who endorsed the latter. Jones defeated Moore on Tuesday, becoming the first Democratic senator to represent Alabama in two decades, further narrowing the Republican’s slim majority in the upper chamber, […]
A delegation of the Russian Defence Ministry is visiting North Korea amid efforts “to revise the policy of mutual threat and intimidation”, media reports said. The delegation led by Victor Kalganov, vice director of the Russian National Defence Command Centre, arrived here on Tuesday, the Korean Central News Agency said. The visit came two weeks […]
The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday due to multiple landslides in Ramban district, a traffic official said. “Snow clearance operation in Bannihal and landslide debris removal elsewhere has started. However, travellers are advised not to undertake any journey without contacting our control rooms in Jammu and Srinagar,” […]
Minimum temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region remained below freezing point on Wednesday as the ski resort of Gulmarg recorded the coldest temperature at minus 9.8. The weather office has forecast rain in the plains and snowfall in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir till Thursday. Leh recorded a minimum temperature of […]
Kim Jong-un, the top leader of North Korea has asked for further strengthening of his country’s nuclear force, the state media said on Wednesday. According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim “expressed belief that the scientists of the national defence industry and workers of munitions would bolster up the nuclear force in quality […]
The Google Doodle on Monday celebrated the 135th birth anniversary of German physicist and mathematician Max Born who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the field of quantum mechanics. An atom is the smallest unit of matter and quantum mechanics studies matter at this incredibly granular level, leading to the invention of […]
Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, has said that the women who have accused President Donald Trump of touching or groping them without their consent “should be heard”, the media reported. Haley’s comments to CBS News on Sunday evening diverged from the White House position on the more than a dozen women who […]
Overnight rains on Monday broke the dry, cold wave conditions in Jammu and Kashmir as the weather office forecast more rain and snow in the next two days. The rains both in the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley raised the minimum temperatures and broke the dry cold spell prevailing in the state for a […]