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Jammu: At least 168 terrorists are operating in Jammu and Kashmir while 75 have been killed in encounters with security forces this year, officials said. Among those neutralised include 21 foreign mercenaries, they pointed out. In the past 11 months, 11 terrorists were encountered and 12 infiltration bids were foiled in the vicinity of the […]
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New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday approved revised “scales of accommodation” for defence services with an aim to ensure better standards of living for the armed forces personnel. The defence ministry said the implementation of scales of accommodation — 2022 would facilitate improvement in facilities and infrastructure for the stay of the armed […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for reforming the World Health Organisation (WHO) and streamlining its approval process for vaccines and therapeutics, and favoured making flexible the WTO’s rules relating to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS). In his address at the second global virtual summit on COVID-19 hosted by US […]
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New Delhi: The government may not allow precaution dose of a COVID-19 vaccine other than the one used for primary vaccination in light of a CMC Vellore study which showed lack of uniformity in results upon mixing of jabs for booster shots, sources said on Thursday. The Covid Working Group of NTAGI which reviewed the […]
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New Delhi: India’s headline inflation galloped for a seventh straight month to touch an 8-year high of 7.79 per cent in April on rising food and fuel prices, raising the odds of an interest rate hike by the RBI early next month to tame prices. With factory output measured in terms of the Index of […]
Added on May 12, 2022
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New Delhi: The “exponential growth” in local youngsters joining terrorist ranks in Jammu and Kashmir over the last two years is a cause of concern for the security establishment with officials saying such operatives constitute about 60 per cent of the total active strength, CRPF sources said on Wednesday. At the same time, as per […]
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Jammu: Police and other security forces on Wednesday launched a massive search operation along the International Border (IB) in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir to sanitize the border villages ahead of Amarnath Yatra next month, officials said. The joint operation by police, Army, BSF and CRPF is underway at village Glad and adjoining areas […]
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Jammu: Additional Director General (ADG) of BSF (Western Command) P V Rama Sastry on Wednesday visited forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch and reviewed the security situation there, officials said. Sastry’s two-day visit to the Jammu frontier, which began on Tuesday, comes in […]
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New Delhi: Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said eight years of his government has brought terrorism at the centre of the global debate and made the country strong enough to face “hard security challenges”. Addressing the gathering where Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu released the book […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the Centre’s reply on a plea preferred by NEET-UG aspirants challenging the Centre’s decision refusing to lower the percentile for qualification of NEET-BDS courses for the academic session 2021-22. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Sanjiv Khanna, and Surya Kant issued notice to the Centre and sought […]
