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New Delhi: The Pakistan High Commission on Tuesday said it has issued visas to 163 Sikh pilgrims from India. Under the provision of a bilateral protocol on visits to religious shrines, Sikh and Hindu pilgrims from India visit Pakistan every year. Pakistani pilgrims also visit India every year under the protocol. “On the eve of […]
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Leh: The Union Territory of Ladakh will soon have a state policy on solid waste and plastic waste management to achieve zero waste’ status through sustainable interventions, innovations and technology, an official spokesman said on Tuesday. The policy document has been drafted with a vision to make Ladakh a garbage-free, energy-efficient and carbon-neutral waste management […]
Added on June 7, 2022
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New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday said that the era of generalisation is over and there is a need for a role specific training module to impart citizen-centric service delivery mechanism, which is the core of all governance models. He also called for increased use of technology in learning and training modules besides […]
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Jammu: Rescue teams will be deployed along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway to provide help to pilgrims during the upcoming Amarnath yatra, police said on Monday. The decision to deploy the rescue teams on the highway, especially in slide-prone areas, was taken at a security review meeting chaired by Superintendent of Police, Ramban, Mohita Sharma, a […]
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Police also lodges FIR
Bhaderwah/Jammu: The police on Monday constituted a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged vandalism at a temple in Doda district here that sparked protests in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The police have already registered a case after pictures of the alleged vandalism at Lord Vasuki Nag temple, situated […]
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United Nations/Geneva: A total of 780 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported or identified since May 13 and as of June 2 from 27 countries across four WHO regions that are not endemic for the monkeypox virus, the World Health Organisation has said. The UN’s health agency said that while epidemiological investigations are ongoing, […]
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Jammu: The threat of drones is present everywhere along the Indo-Pakistan border but security forces are alert to foil any nefarious design from across the border in the region, a senior Border Security Force (BSF) said on Monday. He said that Army and BSF are fully dominating the Line of Control (LoC) to ensure the […]
Added on June 7, 2022
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Jammu: A suspected terrorist was arrested Monday, along with an improvised explosive device (IED), from his house in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police officer said. The arrest and recovery of the IED followed busting of a module run by local Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Amin alias Khubaib , who is presently […]
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Jammu: A man and his son died after drowning in a river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Monday, officials said. Ashok was taking a bath in the Naaz-Phinnu river in the Billawar area, when he slipped into deep waters, they said. His father Seva Rama jumped into river to save him but both […]
Added on June 7, 2022
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Jammu: Dogras and Kashmiri Pandits on Monday continued their protests demanding that employees from the two communities posted in Kashmir be relocated here in the wake of the targeted killings of minorities in the Valley. Dogra employees assembled under the banner of “All Jammu-based Reserved Categories Employees Association” at Panama Chowk here for the sixth […]
