Added on June 25, 2022
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5-member coordination panel formed
Jammu: In a significant development, Jammu and Kashmir will be hosting the 2023 meetings of G-20, an influential grouping that brings together the world’s major economies, with the Union Territory government Thursday setting up a five-member high level committee for overall coordination. This will be the first major international summit to be held in Jammu […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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Keran: No infiltration attempt was successful along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Keran sector in over a year as there is multi-tier deployment of troops and surveillance equipment to maintain vigil, a senior Army officer said here. Troops deployed along the LoC in the sector have intercepted terrorists twice in over […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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Say stranded vehicles to be let first
Udhampur/Ramban/Jammu: Explosives were used to blast boulders that were hampering the ongoing restoration work on the 270-km-long Jammu-Srinagar national highway, which remained closed due to multiple landslides triggered by incessant rains for the third consecutive day on Thursday, officials said. With improvement in weather, the restoration work at over half-a-dozen places in Udhampur and Ramban […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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Docs stage protest against proposed move, demand shelving of proposal
Jammu: Doctors on Thursday staged a protest against the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s proposed move to pool 50 per cent post-graduate seats from Government Medical College (GMC) and all seats of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences for all-India quota this year. Accompanied by medical students, the doctors staged a protest in front of the GMC […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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New Delhi: As India elects its next president on July 18, the Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will not be a part of the exercise for the second time in the history of the election to the top constitutional post. There have been precedents of legislative assemblies of states not […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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New Delhi: India on Thursday resumed its diplomatic presence in Kabul as it deployed a team in its embassy in the Afghan capital, over 10 months after it pulled out its officials from the mission following the Taliban’s capture of power. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), in a statement, said an Indian technical team […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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Jammu: The annual fair at the Baba Chamliyal shrine along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir saw a huge rush of devotees on Thursday as it was being held after a gap of two years due to Covid, officials said. According to a police official, nearly 25,000 devotees from different parts […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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Srinagar: A tourist guide drowned while a trekker from Uttarakhand is reported missing from the Tarsar Lake area in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said on Thursday. “Tourist guide Shakeel Ahmad, a resident of Ganderbal district, drowned in the Tarsar Lake on Wednesday. His body was fished out on Thursday,” an official said here. The […]
Added on June 24, 2022
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Leh: Ladakh reported six fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, pushing the infection tally in the Union territory to 28,334, while six more patients were discharged from hospitals, officials said. All the new cases were detected in Leh, they said. So far, 228 people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Ladakh 168 in Leh and 60 in […]
Added on June 23, 2022
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Banihal/Udhampur/Jammu: Flash floods triggered by heavy rains washed away the shuttering of an under-construction bridge and a 150-foot section of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway even as landslides in Ramban and Udhampur districts forced closure of the strategic road for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded, officials said. The traffic on […]
