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Srinagar: A record 80 lakh tourists have visited Kashmir since January, the deputy commissioner’s office in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district has claimed. “Kashmir is witnessing a ‘golden period of tourism’ as 80 lakh tourists have visited the UT in the past few months alone, breaking all the records of past 20 years,” the Anantnag deputy […]
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Jammu: President Ram Nath Kovind will address the fifth convocation of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) here on Thursday and will also inaugurate a diversity cell at the institute. A total of 214 students, including 77 women, will be awarded Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at the convocation this year. President Kovind will […]
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Says it leads to dearth of doctors
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday pulled up Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) for leaving more than 1450 seats vacant in NEET-PG-21, saying it will not only put the aspirants in difficulty but would also lead to a dearth of doctors. The apex court gave 24-hours to the Centre and the MCC to file an affidavit […]
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Jammu: A landslide on Wednesday blocked the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Udhampur district here for nearly two hours, officials said. The landslide struck the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, near Samroli around 12.30 pm during the ongoing work on a four-laning project, they said. The concerned […]
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Jammu: After two years of coronavirus pandemic, authorities in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir are going to host Baba Chamliyal Mela on June 23 on the Indo-Pakistan international border in Ramgarh sector, an official said. An epicenter of the Indo-Pak bonhomie in the past, the famous fair at the shrine of Baba Dalip Singh […]
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Jammu: Rusted arms and ammunition, including a carbine, were recovered from a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, police said on Wednesday. The arms and ammunition were found by residents of Chak Manga village on Tuesday evening while digging a well, they said. The villagers informed the police, which recovered a rusted carbine, two […]
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Jammu: Amid tight security arrangements nearly 250 devotees, mostly migrant Kashmiri pandits, left Jammu on Tuesday in a fleet of government arranged buses to pay obeisance at the revered Kheer Bhawani temple in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, officials said. The annual Mata Kheer Bhawani mela at the famous Ragnya Devi temple, one of the biggest […]
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Srinagar: Four terrorists, including two Pakistanis, were killed in joint operations by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and central security forces in the restive valley in the last two days, officials said on Tuesday. The action followed Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s directive to security forces to eliminate those involved in the recent series of […]
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New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has disposed of a sizeable number of service cases which were received on transfer from the J&K High Court besides fresh litigation filed by the government employees, a statement issued by the personnel ministry on Tuesday said. Consequent upon re-constitution of the […]
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Jammu: Serving in the war zone between Russia and Ukraine, the latest state-of-the-art “Vector and Scorpion” drone, which is India’s longest-range drone with a 65-kilometre telemetric range, is all set to undergo test trials along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in July, ahead of its possible induction into the armed forces. The […]
