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New Delhi: India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia. According to the report, India has closed 62.5 per cent of its gender gap till date. The country had ranked 112th among 153 countries in […]
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Srinagar: A Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel died after a snow avalanche hit a vehicle near Zojilla Pass on Srinagar-Leh highway on Wednesday, officials said. Ghulam Rasool Bhat, working as a driver with Project Beacon of the BRO, died after an avalanche hit a beacon vehicle near Zojilla, the officials said. They said Bhat was […]
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New Delhi: After raising cooking gas prices by Rs 125 per cylinder last month, state-owned oil firms on Wednesday announced a Rs 10 per cylinder cut in LPG rates on softening international oil prices. A 14.2-kg LPG cylinder — both for subsidised and market price users — will cost Rs 809 from April 1 as […]
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Srinagar: Srinagar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sandeep Chaudhary on Wednesday reviewed the security setup in the hotels across the city where protected persons are accommodated, a police spokesman said here. Guards deployed for the safeguard of protected persons who are staying in the hotels were checked and briefed to remain on extra alert, the […]
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Srinagar: Security forces arrested two militant associates of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and recovered incriminating materials from their possession in Budgam district, police said on Wednesday. Acting on specific inputs, security forces arrested the LeT militant associates in a joint operation at Laloo Sheshgari Hyderpora, a police spokesman said. He identified them as Aquib Ahmad Wani, […]
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Jammu: The process of deporting over 150 Rohingya Muslims detained here in a special drive against illegal immigrants early this month has been initiated in Jammu and Kashmir, an official spokesman said on Wednesday. These people are presently lodged at a ‘holding centre’ in Kathua district, where all necessary facilities are being provided to them, […]
Added on April 1, 2021
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Washington: Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at higher risk from the […]
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (Prisons) V K Singh on Wednesday granted approval for a drug treatment centre inside the Central Jail Srinagar, officials said here. The DGP was on a visit to the high security prison here to take stock of arrangements and evaluate facilities for inmates, they said. “In view […]
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Discrimination against the fairer sex has been witnessing a surge despite various tall claims by the incumbent government and the measures taken over the years. The hard fact is that mere statements have not worked as the action on ground was reported missing. Due to this reason India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th […]
Added on April 1, 2021
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K S S Pillai Lying awake at night, half-listening to the chorus of insects, I often think of those who had been my friends at different times. Like the seven-year-old boy who had frantically cut his new pencil into two with a rusted blade and given me the portion with an eraser at the end. […]
