The weather office has predicted thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds (speed 40-50 kmph) with isolated hailstorms likely over Jammu- Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during Friday and Saturday.

An Israeli Air Force fighter jet dropped a bomb near an Israeli community on the Gaza border owing to a “technical malfunction”.

President Donald Trump escalated his war against elite US universities Tuesday with a threat to strip Harvard’s tax-exempt status if the country’s most famous educational establishment refuses to submit to wide-ranging government oversight.