File photo: Vehicles lie damaged after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst sweeps through the area, in Pahalgam (Picture credit: PTI) SRINAGAR: Cloudburst-triggered flash floods in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pahalgam inundated hotels and huts, and damaged roads, power infrastructure, and agricultural fields along Overa stream on Saturday evening, sparking panic among locals and tourists…

Labor’s promise to help shield small businesses from the cost of restructuring to avoid its proposed new tax on trusts remains dependent on whether state governments agree to waive stamp duty. Accounting and industry groups have warned businesses cannot know if they should abandon their discretionary trust until they have clarity on how much states…

JAMMU: J&K police arrested three publishers on Sunday in a case linked to two books allegedly glorifying separatists and anti-national elements that were supplied to government school libraries before being withdrawn.Inderpaul of Jammu-based Oberoi Book Service and Amardeep Singh and Girish Arora of Noida-based Dominant Publishers were taken into custody, as police widened the probe…

The Tasmanian government’s own advice was saying that native forest logging practices needed to be urgently reviewed. But what was the cost of protecting critical habitat when forestry jobs were at stake? It was late 2021 when something started to happen in the native forests of Lonnavale. Ecologists had seen it before, but logging regulators…

File photo: J&K CM Omar Abdullah and US President Donald Trump SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah sharpened his attack Centre over delay in restoring statehood, asking Sunday whether he should “go to Donald Trump” after BJP politicians allegedly dismissed protests in J&K, assembly and outside Parliament as futile.“Our patience is running out. First…

Canberra is in its annual winter politician-free zone, with parliament not back until mid-August. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is well known for his love of footy, so think of the recess like half-time, with the PM and Opposition Leader Angus Taylor using the break to review their form and prepare for the second half. When…