J-K, Ladakh and Arunachal integral parts of India, fact conveyed to China: MEA
New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) India’s consistent position has been that Arunachal Pradesh and the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are its integral parts and it has been clearly conveyed to the Chinese side on several occasions, the External Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday. Responding to a query in Lok Sabha, Minister […]
No proposal to bring law to check road blocking incidents by protestors: Govt
New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) Union minister G Kishan Reddy informed the parliament on Wednesday that there is no proposal at present for a legislation to check the recurrence of road blocking incidents by protestors like in Shaheen Bagh, in the future. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for Home […]
Economic offences wing set up in ACB
Jammu, March 11 (PTI) The Jammu and Kashmir government has set up an economic offences wing in the Anti-Corruption Bureau to be headquartered in Jammu, officials said. According to the order issued by the General Administration Department (GAD) on Tuesday, the government has given sanction for establishing the economic offences wing with its headquarters in Jammu […]
PAF F-16 jet crashes in Islamabad during Pakistan Day parade rehearsals
Islamabad, Mar 11 (PTI) An F-16 fighter jet belonging to the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Islamabad on Wednesday while carrying out rehearsals for the country’s Republic Day parade to be held on March 23. The plane crashed in a jungle near Shakarparian area of the capital, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said in a statement. […]
Elderly man suspected to be infected with coronavirus dies in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 11 (PTI) A 76-year-old man suspected to be infected with coronavirus died in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, District Health and Family Welfare department said on Wednesday. An official note of the department in the district headquarters town identified him as Mohammed Hussain Siddiqui, who died in a government hospital on Tuesday. “His swab samples have been […]
COVID19: After closing schools, Ladakh UT shuts all collages, university till March 31
Leh/Jammu, Mar 11 (PTI) The Ladakh administration has closed all colleges and the university in the union territory from Wednesday until March 31 as a precautionary measure in consideration of the coronavirus outbreak. “In view of the prevailing circumstances and as a precautionary measure for containment of COVID-19, all the colleges and the university of Ladakh […]
Elderly woman COVID-19 patient in Kerala serious: Officials
Kottayam (Ker), Mar 11 (PTI) The health condition of an 85-year old woman being treated for COVID-19 at the isolation ward of the government medical college hospital here is serious, health officials said on Wednesday. In view of her chronic health condition like heart disease, she is serious while her 96-year old husband is stable, […]
95 Cong MLAs reach Bhopal airport, to leave for Jaipur
Bhopal, Mar 11 (PTI) Amid the political crisis in Madhya Pradesh, 95 Congress MLAs reached the Bhopal airport to leave for Jaipur on Wednesday after the ruling party decided to shift its MLAs out of the state in a bid to keep its flock together. The ruling party MLAs, who reached the Raja Bhoj Airport here […]
Srinagar Mayor orders closure of schools, Div Com says orders do not count
Srinagar, Mar 11: Hours after Srinagar Mayor, Junaid Mattu, made announcement regarding closure of all schools within SMC limits, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan on Wednesday said decision of “closing or keeping open” the educational institutions was administrative matter to be decided only by the government. Mattu, quoting special set of statutory provisions, had ordered […]