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COVID-19: Six patients die, 470 test positive across JK

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded six deaths due to COVID-19 taking the death toll to 1,761 while as 470 positive cases were reported taking the tally of positive cases to 114,038. Of the exact number of 114,038 cases, 67,558 are from Kashmir and 46,480 from Jammu division. Officials said that among 470 new […]

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LAC faceoff: Working with India for further de-escalation: China

LAC faceoff: Working with India for further de-escalation: China

Beijing: China and India are working for further de-escalation of the border standoff in eastern Ladakh and both sides will have consultations to determine specific arrangements for the next round of talks, a senior Chinese official said on Tuesday. The Chinese and Indian armies held the 8th round of Corps Commander-level meeting on November 6 […]

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Official Language section set-up in GAD

JAMMU: The Government Tuesday approved establishment of a separate Official Language Section in GAD. The Section will have eight Translators, two each of Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri and Dogri languages. The section will also have four Editors, one each in Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri and Dogri languages. The staff for these posts will be drawn from different […]

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Army Chief leaves for UAE, Saudi Arabia

New Delhi: Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane on Tuesday left on a six-day tour of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, in a first-ever visit by a head of the Indian Army to the two strategically important Gulf countries. The visit by the Army chief is seen as a reflection of India’s […]

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Pak, China violating religious freedom: US

Pak, China violating religious freedom: US

Washington: The US has designated Pakistan and China among eight other countries that are of particular concern for violation of religious freedom, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. Pakistan and China along with Myanmar, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were placed in the list for engaging in or tolerating […]

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No need for prior environmental clearance for NH projects: SC

New Delhi: The central government is not required to obtain prior environmental or forest clearance under the laws before declaring a stretch as national highway (NH) and expressing its intention to acquire the land for building, maintenance or operating such roads, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday. This significant observation was made by the top […]

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Justice Bindal appointed acting chief justice of JK High Court

New Delhi: Justice Rajesh Bindal was on Tuesday appointed as the acting chief justice of the common high court for the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, a Law Ministry notification said. He was the senior-most judge of the high court. He has been asked to perform the duties of the office of […]

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Arrest of three Kashmiri men: Court sends detained men to police custody

New Delhi: Five persons suspected to have militant links and arrested after an encounter here were remanded for custodial interrogation of four days by a Delhi Court on Tuesday. According to the police, Shabir Ahmad, Md Ayub Pathan and Riyaz Rather were allegedly affiliated with terrorist organisation Hizbul Mujahideen while Gurjit Singh and Sukhdeep Singh […]

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Corruption kills

Corruption kills

Today the world will be observing the International Anti-Corruption Day. This day is observed every year on December 9 all over the world. It was on 31 October 2003 that the United Nations passed an anti-corruption pact and since then the day has been celebrated. But the moot question remains whether mere observing the day […]

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Modern science and Muslim world

Modern science and Muslim world

Rayees Ahmad Kumar There are more than a billion Muslims in the world today – over a fifth of the world’s total population – spread over many more than the 57 member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in which Islam is the official religion. These include some of the world’s wealthiest […]

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