Added on March 19, 2021
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United Nations: India is projected to register the greatest increase in the number of deaths among children under 5 in South Asia in 2020 as well as the highest number of maternal deaths as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts the country’s health services, a UN report has said. The report also noted that India could spend […]
Added on March 19, 2021
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‘Stone-pelting incidents reduced drastically’
New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Thursday said 226 militants were killed during operations in Jammu and Kashmir since 2020, while 296 were apprehended. CRPF Director General (DG) Kuldiep Singh said stone-pelting incidents in the Kashmir Valley have “reduced drastically”, although they have not stopped completely. The stone-pelting incidents have now been […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said India will be benefitted economically by having peace with his country as it will be able to directly access resource-rich Central Asia through it. Delivering the inaugural address at the launch of the two-day Islamabad Security Dialogue, Khan also said that his government after coming to […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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New Delhi: There has been a significant decline in terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir in the last three years but instances of shelling from across the border have gone up abruptly, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy shared this in a written reply. “During the […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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New Delhi: The government Wednesday said some instances of supply of weapons through drones from Pakistan have come to light and security agencies were taking action on it. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said this in Rajya Sabha, while responding to a question on whether the central government is aware that […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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New Delhi: Nearly 3,800 Kashmiri migrants have returned to Jammu and Kashmir in the last few years and 520 of them after the abrogation of Article 370 to take up jobs under the prime minister’s special package, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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New Delhi: India on Wednesday said its engagement with China is “complex” and the two countries agreed that the future direction of ties should be built upon respecting each other’s sensitivities, concerns and aspirations. Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan also said in the Lok Sabha that India will continue discussions with China […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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Srinagar: Veteran PDP leader and former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh on Wednesday joined the People’s Conference, a party from where he began his political career. A spokesperson of the People’s Conference said Beigh joined the party after chairman Sajad Gani Lone and other leaders called on him at his residence. […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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New Delhi: India recorded 28,903 new coronavirus infections, the highest so far this year, taking the COVID-19 tally to 1,14,38,734, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll increased to 1,59,044 with 188 new fatalities, the highest in around two months, the data updated at 8 am showed. Registering an […]
Added on March 18, 2021
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Jammu: The National Conference women wing on Wednesday kick-started a membership drive at party headquarters here to mobilise women at micro-level to strengthen and expand “secular and progressive” space in Jammu province. “The women wing has decided to enrol thousands of new female members from all the organisational districts of Jammu province into party fold […]
