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New Delhi: Conducting Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir is the prerogative of the Election Commission (EC) and the poll body has initiated the process to revise the electoral rolls there, the Centre informed Parliament on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said this in a written reply to a question in […]
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New Delhi: Nearly 30,000 people have been recruited in the public sector by the Jammu and Kashmir administration since 2019, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said employment for 5.2 lakh people is estimated to have been created through self-employment schemes from August 2019 up to […]
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New Delhi: Sri Lanka is facing “a very serious crisis” that makes India naturally worried, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told an all-party meeting here on Tuesday and dismissed suggestions about such a situation arising in India. Jaishankar, who made the initial remarks, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi were among the senior members of […]
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Srinagar: The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday conducted raids at multiple locations in Baramulla district as part of its investigation into narco financing of terror activities in the Union territory, officials said. “Today, the State Investigation Agency (SIA), Jammu with the help of district police and civil administration of Baramualla […]
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New Delhi: The three services are reeling under a shortage of 1,35,784 personnel with the Army having the maximum vacancies at 1,16,464, according to details provided by the government. The total shortage includes officers and soldiers. In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Monday, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt […]
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Beijing: China on Tuesday termed as “constructive and forward-looking” the 16th round of Sino-India talks to resolve the outstanding issues on the remaining friction points in the eastern Ladakh border and said a joint statement issued by both sides commented “positively” about the meeting. The latest round of military-level talks took place on Sunday at […]
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New Delhi: Kashmir has always been a victim of bad publicity, believes renowned artist Rouble Nagi, who is known for her campaign for repairing and beautifying slums and villages across the country. Nagi, who was born in Jammu, started a programme ‘Missal Kashmir’, which involves taking colours and sketch books inside ‘Madrassas’ for encouraging children […]
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Teams dispatched for crackdown
Jammu: A Lashkar-e-Taiba module has brought four of its terrorists to the Pir-Panjal belt of Jammu region from Kashmir, prompting the police and security agencies to send teams to hunt them down, officials said on Tuesday. The security forces unearthed this information while interrogating the members of the twin modules busted by the police in […]
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Leh: Ladakh recorded 13 fresh Covid cases that pushed the infection tally to 28,648, officials said on Tuesday. All the new cases were recorded in Leh, they said. So far, 228 people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Ladakh. Of these, 168 deaths were reported from Leh and 60 from Kargil, according to officials. The number […]
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Jammu: The police have arrested a man with a country-made-pistol in Jammu on Tuesday, officials said. During a routine check, a pistol was recovered from 24-year old Akshay Kumar, who runs a drug rehabilitation centre at Gharota in the name of Ayodhya foundation, they said. He was arrested and a case under the Arms Act […]
