People in Srinagar, Jammu, Shopian and several other parts of Kashmir region felt the tremors.
Strong tremors were also felt in Srinagar, and several other parts of Jammu and Kashmir following the earthquake.
Chinese researchers have revealed that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years, according to the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Britain on Friday announced a 450 million British pound (about 589 million US dollars) "surge of military support" for Ukraine as it co-hosted a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group with Germany in Brussels.
The United States cannot act recklessly and the wheels of history cannot be reversed, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday.
On Monday, the Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq said that the UN Secretary was closely following the developments in Sri Lanka, and stands in solidarity with the country.
“The pandemic wiped out more than four years of progress on poverty eradication and pushed 93 million more people into extreme poverty in 2020. It has disrupted essential health services, resulting in a drop in immunization coverage for the first time in a decade and a rise in deaths from tuberculosis and malaria, among many other impacts. Prolonged school closures put 24 million learners from pre-primary to university levels at risk of not returning to school.”
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948, which comes on the heels of successive waves of COVID-19, threatening to undo years of development progress.
Thousands of demonstrators surrounded the President's House in Fort on Saturday, leading to Rajapaksa's resignation.
This year, 52.05 per cent of voters turned to the Upper House election, which is higher than the 2019 Upper House election but the second-lowest on record.
