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Attack against Indian elite- Russia detains ISIS terrorist plotting suicide attack: Russian media

Attack against Indian elite- Russia detains ISIS terrorist plotting suicide attack: Russian media

Moscow: Russia’s top intelligence agency said on Monday that it has detained an Islamic State terrorist from a Central Asian country who underwent special training to carry out a suicide attack against a member of India’s leadership elite for the offensive comments on the Prophet. According to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the foreign national […]

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Missing student found dead in Punjab

Protesters block national highway in Samba

Jammu: Hundreds of protesters on Monday blocked the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway in Samba district after a college student from the district was found dead in Punjab, officials said. Twenty-year-old Vaishali, a resident of Madkoli village of Sumb block, went missing on Saturday while returning from Government Degree College in Samba. Her body was found under […]

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Handicraft products from Rajouri find their way to e-commerce sites

Handicraft products from Rajouri find their way to e-commerce sites

Jammu: In a bid to provide market linkage to local artisans, authorities in Rajouri have taken an initiative of listing handicraft products on e-commerce platforms, an official said on Monday. The products listed on online marketplaces like Amazon and GeM included ‘chikri woodcraft’, which has been practised for over a century with Thana Mandi area […]

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JK moving ahead to become one of leading regions: LG

JK moving ahead to become one of leading regions: LG

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir is now moving ahead to become one of the leading regions in sectors like IT, industries, tourism, women entrepreneurship and youth empowerment, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said here on Sunday. Addressing the 17th edition of the ‘Awaam Ki Awaaz’ programme, Sinha said ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ provides the perfect opportunity to […]

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India in advanced stage of talks with US for procuring MQ-9B drones

New Delhi: India is in an “advanced stage” of negotiations with the US to procure 30 MQ-9B Predator armed drones for over USD 3 billion to crank up its surveillance apparatus along the frontier with China as well as in the Indian Ocean region, people familiar with the developments said on Sunday. The MQ-9B drone […]

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China disregarded border pacts with India, casting shadow on bilateral ties: Jaishankar

Sao Paulo (Brazil): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that China has disregarded the border pacts with India, casting a shadow on the bilateral ties as he asserted that a lasting relationship cannot be a one-way street and there has to be mutual respect. Jaishankar, who arrived here on the first leg of his […]

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LeT guide trained by Pak Army arrested along LoC in Rajouri

Jammu: A highly trained Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guide, who also worked for Pakistan Army’s intelligence unit, was arrested after being shot at by the Indian Army near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday, officials said. Tabarak Hussain (32), a resident of Sabzkot village of Kotli in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), […]

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IED found in J-K’s Pulwama, destroyed: Police

Srinagar: Police on Sunday claimed to have averted a “major” terror incident by destroying an improvised explosive device (IED) recovered in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. The IED, weighing about 10-12 kg, was recovered by security forces in the Beihgund area of Tral in the south Kashmir district. “On a specific input of […]

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Soldier dies by suicide in Rajouri

Jammu: An Army jawan allegedly ended his life by hanging himself in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. The personnel was found hanging with a rope by his colleagues inside a camp at Mankote on August 18 and was rushed to a military hospital, a police official said. However, the […]

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KCR govt ‘anti-farmer’, has not fulfilled its promises to people: Amit Shah

Munugode (Telangana): Union Home Minister Amit Shah Sunday accused the K Chandrashekar Rao-led government of being “anti-farmer”, and plunging Telangana into a debt trap despite over “Rs 2-lakh crore help” from the Modi government. At a public meeting, where former Congress legislator from Munugode K Rajagopal Reddy joined the BJP, Shah said it marks the […]