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Washington: With the US closing in on President Joe Biden’s goal of injecting 100 million coronavirus vaccinations weeks ahead of his target date, the White House announced on Thursday the nation is now in position to help supply neighbours Canada and Mexico with millions of lifesaving shots.The Biden administration ...

KEY FACTS5:45 a.m. Bank of Canada to make interest rate announcement5:02 a.m. Pakistan starts vaccinating people 60 or older4:57 a.m. Ontario to spend $255 million to address COVID-19 outbreaks in homeless sheltersMayor John Tory, Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Eileen de Villa and Toronto Fire Chief and General ...

Jammu: The newly-elected District Development Council (DDC) members on Wednesday called off their two-day long protest in support of better status and monthly honorarium, saying they have got an assurance from Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha whom they are meeting on Friday. However, the DDC members said they will decide ...

This comes days after the Jammu and Kashmir administration said Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq ‘was free to go anywhere’. Hurriyat chairman and Valley’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest and allegedly disallowed to lead the Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, days ...

Germany’s hundreds of thousands of unused vaccine dosesTwo weeks after 1.45 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Germany, only 270,986 have been administered, public health officials said, even as people around the world clamor for inoculations and many countries have seen severe shortages.Many Germans — including health ...

Snow, heavy rain likely in JK on Friday Jammu Tawi, February 24: Night temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley remained above or around the freezing point on Wednesday as the weather office forecast a spell of rain or snow in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Friday. “Heavy rain and snow ...

File Photo JAMMU: Night temperatures throughout the Kashmir valley remained above or around the freezing point on Wednesday as the weather office forecast a spell of rain or snow in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Friday.“Heavy rain and snow is expected at some places during February 25-26. Probable ...

  Srinagar, Feb 22: Amid rise in minimum as well as maximum temperature, the weatherman here has predicted moderate snowfall across Jammu and Kashmir from Friday (February 26). Deputy Director Meteorological department (MeT), Mukhtar Ahmad said that there is a possibility of moderate snowfall across J&K from Feb 26. He ...

NINGBO, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The China Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (NCFI) reported a fall in freight indices in the India-Pakistan routes. The NCFI, reflecting freight rate changes of 21 routes departing from the Ningbo-Zhoushan port, stood at 2,332.1 points on Friday, down 1.1 percent compared with last week. ...

After sexist remark, a new Tokyo Olympics leader is namedSeiko Hashimoto, one of Japan’s two female cabinet ministers, is the new head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee.Her appointment was in response to intense criticism following the resignation of Yoshiro Mori, who stepped down after saying that women talked ...