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PM uses new VVIP aircraft for 1st time on foreign trip

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday went from Delhi to Dhaka on a new custom-made VVIP aircraft, using it for the first time on a foreign journey. The prime minister is on a two-day visit to Bangladesh. India and Bangladesh are currently celebrating the golden jubilee of the 1971 war victory. India had […]

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Parra paid Rs 5 Cr to Geelani’s aide to widen unrest in Kashmir: NIA

Jammu/New Delhi: The NIA has alleged that PDP youth leader Waheed-ur-Rahman Parra paid Rs 5 crore to the son-in-law of hard-line Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for keeping Kashmir in turmoil after the death of Hizbul Mujahideen’s poster boy Burhan Wani in 2016. In an exhaustive charge sheet recently filed in a special […]

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Centre trying to dismantle PDP: Mehbooba Mufti

Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday accused the Centre of trying to dismantle her party by luring and threatening its members. Her remarks come a day after she was grilled for five hours by the Enforcement Directorate at its Srinagar office in connection with a money laundering case. In a tweet, the former Jammu […]

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Several states record spike in covid-19 cases

Several states record spike in covid-19 cases

New Delhi: Five states — Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat — have registered a sharp rise in daily COVID-19 cases, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday as India recorded 59,118 new infections, the highest single-day rise so far this year. After touching its lowest mark in mid-February, India’s active COVID-19 caseload is on […]

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JK reports 201 new COVID-19 cases, one fatality

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 210 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 57 travellers, taking the infection tally to 1,29,413, while one more fatality pushed the death toll in the union territory to 1,984, officials said. Forty-one of the new cases were from the Jammu division and 169 from the Kashmir division, they said. The […]

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Pakistan test-fires nuclear-capable Shaheen-1A

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 900 kilometres, the Army said. The test of Shaheen-1A surface to surface ballistic missile, was aimed at re-validating various design and technical parameters of the weapon system including advanced navigation system, the media wing of the Pakistani army – the […]

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Imran Khan holds in person meet with media team, draws flak

Imran Khan holds in person meet with media team, draws flak

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has come under severe criticism from both the opposition and the public for holding an in-person meeting with his media team despite being infected with the novel coronavirus, according to a media report on Friday. Khan, 68, tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday last, just a couple of […]

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Rohingya case: Country can’t be capital for illegal immigrants, Centre tells SC

New Delhi: The country cannot be the capital for illegal immigrants, the Centre told the Supreme Court which on Friday reserved order on a fresh plea seeking directions for immediate release of detained Rohingya refugees in Jammu and restrain the government from implementing any order deporting them to Myanmar. A bench headed by Chief Justice […]

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Admin brought transparency, put end to corruption in JK: Lt Guv

Admin brought transparency, put end to corruption in JK: Lt Guv

Jammu: Asserting that his administration has brought transparency in the system and put an end to corruption, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday said his priority is to speed up the development work in the union territory. He said there is a law and there are agencies in the country which look […]

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Not a single shot fired along LoC in March: Army Chief

Says terror infrastructure in Pak still intact

New Delhi: The Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir has been silent for the first time in around five to six years as not a single shot was fired in March, Army Chief Gen M M Naravane said on Thursday referring to the recent commitment by Indian and Pakistani militaries to observe ceasefire in […]