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New Delhi: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of summons issued to her by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for March 15 in a money laundering case. The 61-year-old PDP leader, who was released last year after more than a year in detention following the scrapping […]
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Kathua/Jammu: A 55-year-old woman was found murdered inside her house in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. Bholi Devi was living alone at the house in Parliwand village following a dispute with her husband Madan Gopal, Additional Superintendent of Police, Kathua, Ramnish Gupta said. Gupta, who led a police party to […]
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded 77 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus, raising the infection count to 1,27,191, while two more deaths due to the pandemic were reported in the past 24 hours, officials said. Seventeen of the fresh cases were from the Jammu division and 60 from the Kashmir division, they said. […]
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Kabul: Frustrated by a stalled peace process and escalating violence, the US has presented an eight-page draft peace agreement to Afghanistan’s warring sides for review. The US told the parties to come to Turkey in the coming weeks ready to move on it, according to Afghans on both sides of the table. The draft was […]
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New Delhi: As many as 173 people, including separatists, over ground workers, stone pelters, who were detained when the Article 370 was abrogated in August 2019 in Jammu and Kashmir, continue to be under custody, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the government of […]
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New Delhi: Taking a swipe at the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said some people always try to target the prestige and credibility of India’s constitutional bodies due to their “political interests”, and asserted that they do not represent the country’s mainstream. Speaking at an event to release manuscript with commentaries by 21 scholars […]
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Jammu: Days after Jammu and Kashmir administration detained 168 Rohingyas, CPI(M) on Tuesday said the Rohingya refugees’ issue needs to be seen through a humanitarian rather than political angle. Regional Secretary CPI(M) Jammu Sham Prasad Kesar said so far nothing adverse has been found against the Rohingya refugees in the union territory and keeping that […]
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Jammu: Police seized 38 kilograms of poppy from a Punjab-bound truck on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway and arrested two suspected drug peddlers in Udhampur district on Tuesday, officials said. During routine checking, a police team intercepted the truck on the highway at Jakhani area and recovered poppy concealed in a modified compartment in the vehicle, […]
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Issues in Co-WIN, hesitancy were main reasons
New Delhi: At the start of the COVID-19 vaccination drive, fewer beneficiaries than planned attended inoculation sessions due to transient technical issues in the Co-WIN portal, vaccine hesitancy etc, which have progressively been addressed, Rajya Sabha was informed in February. It was inadvertently reported as a reply given on March 8. The rate of vaccination […]
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New Delhi: Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are the six states that cumulatively account for 86.25 per cent of the new coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Maharashtra has reported a maximum of 11,141 fresh cases in a single day, accounting for 59.90 per […]
