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New Delhi: A country’s economic prowess gets automatically reflected in the field of ammunition and India must focus on boosting research and development as well as manufacturing capability in this area, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday. “We have come far ahead of those times when a bomb’s size and explosive capacity were the […]
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Banihal: The strategic 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, which was shut due to mudslides and shooting stones in Ramban district early Wednesday, was opened for vehicular traffic partially, officials said. Authorities allowed stranded vehicles, including an Amarnath Yatra convoy, to move towards Kashmir, they said. Shooting stones struck the highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir […]
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Receives bids worth Rs 1.49 lakh cr on Day 2
New Delhi: India’s first 5G auction on Wednesday received bids worth Rs 1.49 lakh crore on day two, as aggressive bidding across bands by players like Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel pushed the sale over to the third day. As many as five rounds of bidding were conducted for the 5G spectrum, capable of offering […]
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Srinagar: A 26-year-old youth from the remote Bandipora district here has hand-written the Holy Quran on a 500-metre-long paper scroll — a calligraphic feat achieved through painstaking work over three months. Mustafa-Ibn-Jameel, a resident of Tulail area of the frontier Gurez in the north Kashmir district, embarked on the project last year. “It took me […]
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Srinagar: Two ancient sculptures, including about a 1200-year-old idol of Lord Vishnu, were found in Budgam district of central Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. A police spokesman said residents of Gudsathoo village in Budgam on Tuesday informed police that they found a sculpture while digging land. A police party rushed to the spot and took […]
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Jammu: The ongoing Amarnath yatra is showing a decreasing trend in the number of pilgrims as a batch of only 1,147 of them left the base camp here on Wednesday for the twin base camps of the cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. While 3,862 pilgrims had left Jammu for the cave […]
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New Delhi: A judicial officer was Wednesday appointed as an additional judge in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, the Law Ministry said. A notification issued by the Department of Justice in the law ministry said Rajesh Sekhri has been appointed as an additional judge in the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh […]
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New Delhi: Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill which seeks to provide a statutory framework for the functioning of the National Anti-Doping Agency and the National Dope Testing Laboratory. The National Anti-Doping Bill was passed by a voice vote along with certain official amendments moved by the government. Responding to debate on the bill, […]
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New Delhi: Government has given indications that a discussion on price rise may be taken up next week in Parliament, sources in the opposition parties claimed on Wednesday. They, however, said the government does not appear keen on a debate on the Agnipath military recruitment scheme and could evade the matter on the ground that […]
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New Delhi: Two persons associated with media organisations were detained under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir this year, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said on Wednesday. Rai was replying to a question in Rajya Sabha on whether Jammu and Kashmir has seen an increase in detention of journalists and […]
