Press Trust of India

Jmu-Sgr highway closed as rains trigger massive landslide

Banihal/Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic on Saturday due to a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district that left over 500 vehicles stranded, officials said. The 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was blocked by a landslide at Magarkot belt in […]

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Group selling stolen mobile phones in Kashmir held

New Delhi: The police have arrested four members of a Mewat-based gang who allegedly brought thousands of stolen mobile phones from snatchers and burglars operating in Delhi and its neighbouring areas, police said on Friday. The police said they nabbed Jiyauddin (24), Mohammad Aalim (25), Ajay (23) and Shiv Kumar (27), and recovered 70 mobile […]

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JK reports 185 Covid-19 cases, two more deaths

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported 185 new covid-19 cases, lowest single day count in 108 days, even as two more people succumbed to the virus during the past 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. They said 74 of them were reported from Jammu Division and 111 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall case tally to […]

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Regional consensus, support for Afghan-led peace process imp: US

Regional consensus, support for Afghan-led peace process imp: US

Washington: The US has said that regional consensus and support for an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process is important for an enduring peace, stressing that Afghanistan’s neighbours and countries in the region have a real stake in the war-torn nation’s future. The comments came on Friday, hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had […]

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US official discusses Afghanistan issue with Pakistan FM

Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has underscored the importance of bilateral relations with Pakistan in a telephonic conversation with his counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, amidst a rapid withdrawal of American and NATO troops from neighbouring Afghanistan. The conversation took place in the backdrop of reports that the Taliban has made huge territorial gains […]

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Taliban says it sees China as a ‘friend’

Promises not to host Uyghur militants from Xinjiang: Report

Beijing: The Taliban has said it sees China as a “friend” of Afghanistan and assured Beijing that it would not host Uyghur Islamic militants from the volatile Xinjiang province, which is a major worry for the Chinese government, according to a media report. The comments came as the Taliban made territorial gains in the war-torn […]

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City Livelihood Centres: A welcome move

City Livelihood Centres: A welcome move

The twin cities of Jammu and Srinagar have been witnessing a haphazard growth both in terms of economic development and urbanization. Though the two are interlinked but so far no attention was provided to provide any scientific intervention so that the growth trajectory could have been capitalized in a better way. The growth and expansion […]

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Global disability: An emerging issue

Global disability: An emerging issue

M Ahmad World Population Day is celebrated annually on 11 July to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. The Day was established by the Governing Council of the UN Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July […]

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Knowing about Schizophrenia

Ishrat Amin Schizophrenia is a serious disorder in which people interpret realty abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions and extremely disordered thinking and behaviour that impairs daily functioning and can be disabling. People with schizophrenia require lifelong treatment. Early treatment may help get symptoms under control before serious complications develop and […]

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Online Learning: Strengths and Weaknesses

Vijay Garg All educators approach this new paradigm with varying degrees of enthusiasm and concern. Are you optimistic about Online Learning? Are you interested in knowing how delivering courses online can improve your teaching and offer unprecedented learning opportunities for your students, or do you want to know what you will be up against as […]

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