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Elderly population in India expected to double by 2050: UNFPA India chief

Elderly population in India expected to double by 2050: UNFPA India chief

New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) India’s elderly population is expected to double by 2050, UNFPA India chief Andrea Wojnar said, stressing that more investment in healthcare, housing and pensions is needed, especially for older women who are “more likely to live alone and face poverty”. In an interview with PTI given days after the World […]

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Army Chief chairs security review meet in Jammu

Army Chief chairs security review meet in Jammu

‘New Counter Terrorism Strategy rolled’ Jammu: Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi Saturday chaired a security review meetings in Jammu where a new counter terrorism strategy was rolled that entails—“plugging the operational flaws, intensifying counter terrorist operations and tracking the hiding terrorists with active support of locals.” Sources privy to the meeting said that General Dwivedi […]

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Lt Guv chairs a high-level review meeting on security

JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Saturday chaired a high-level meeting with Army Chief, various heads of security and law enforcement agencies on the security situation in Jammu division. Chief of the Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi; DG BSF, DG CRPF, DGP J&K, Heads of Intelligence Agencies and other senior officials of army, CAPFs and J&K […]

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Temperature soars again in Kashmir as MeT predicts ‘heatwave’ for next 72 hours

Srinagar: After relaxing temperatures, the mercury has increased yet again across Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday with twin places of the Valley including Qazigund and Kokernag recording heat wave as the maximum temperatures settled above 5 degrees than the normal temperature. Qazigund and Kokernag recorded heat wave today where the mercury settled at 33.4 degree […]

 Press Trust of India

Parliament’s monsoon session to begin from Monday

FM to present Union Budget on July 23 NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget on Tuesday as the Monsoon Session of Parliament gets underway next week with the united opposition set to corner the NDA government on issues ranging from the NEET paper leak case and railway safety. The Monsoon […]

 Press Trust of India

NEET-UG leak case: CBI nabs NIT graduate, 2 MBBS students

New Delhi: The CBI Saturday arrested an NIT-Jamshedpur B.Tech graduate, one of the masterminds, in the NEET-UG paper leak case and two MBBS students who allegedly solved the exam papers for money, officials said. With the fresh arrests, the total number of people held so far by the agency in six cases related to the […]

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Positive transformation in JK frustrated ‘master of terror’: Lt Guv

Srinagar: The positive transformation in Jammu and Kashmir has frustrated the “master of terror”, but our government will not allow ill intentions of the enemy to succeed, said Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha here on Saturday amidst a spurt in violence in the Jammu region. Speaking at a function at SKICC, Sinha said JK has undergone […]

 Press Trust of India

Electoral bonds scheme: SC to hear on July 22 plea to seize money received by political parties

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 22 a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and others to confiscate the amount received by various political parties under the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme of 2018. In a landmark verdict on February 15, the apex court had junked the Centre’s electoral bonds […]

 Press Trust of India

All communities must join hands to fight Terrorism: Jitendra Singh

DODA/JAMMU: Asserting the Government is focused on improving security situation, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said all communities must join hands to fight the menace of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. Singh, the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, was in Doda, part of his Udhampur parliamentary constituency which was rocked by […]

 Press Trust of India

Study estimates 11.9 lakh excess deaths in 2020 during pandemic

Health ministry terms a study on Covid deaths in India ‘misleading’ New Delhi: In India, 11.9 lakh excess deaths occurred in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 per cent higher compared to 2019, an international study has found. The estimate is about eight times higher than the official COVID-19 deaths in India, and 1.5 times […]

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