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New Delhi: The Delimitation Commission, set up in March last year to redraw the electoral constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, is set to get an extension to complete its work, sources said on Tuesday. An official notification in this regard could be issued on Wednesday, they added. The panel […]
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Geneva: India on Tuesday hit out at Pakistan, a country in dire economic situation but provided pensions to dreaded and listed terrorists out of state funds, and asked Islamabad to stop state-sponsored cross-border terrorism. Using its Right of Reply at the ongoing 46th Session of the Human Rights Council in response to a statement by […]
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Karachi/New Delhi: An Indigo flight from Sharjah to Lucknow made an emergency landing at the Karachi airport in Pakistan on Tuesday morning after a passenger on board fell sick and later died. An official of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority said the landing permission was granted to the Captain of the Lucknow-bound IndiGo flight 6E1412 […]
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded 85 new positive cases, taking the tally to 1,26,589, even as no fresh death due to the virus was reported in the past 24 hours, officials said. Out of the fresh cases, 12 were from Jammu division and 73 from Kashmir division of the Union territory, they said. […]
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Islamabad: All-weather allies Pakistan and China on Tuesday launched year-long activities to celebrate 70 years of the establishment of their diplomatic ties. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi formally commenced the activities through a virtual ceremony simultaneously held in Islamabad and Beijing. The Foreign Office (FO) said that the […]
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Jammu: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday took over a case related to conspiracy by militant organization Lashker-e-Mustafa (LeM), a front of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad, nearly a month after the arrest of its chief and his sensational disclosures, including that NSA Ajit Doval’s office in Delhi was filmed for a possible terror attack. LeM chief […]
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New Delhi: India’s present overall COVID-19 case positivity rate of 5.11 per cent suggests the pandemic is close to being under control, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Addressing a weekly press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said though certain states, including Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, are seeing […]
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London: The Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines for COVID-19 are highly effective in reducing severe coronavirus infection among people aged 70 years and above, according to a study. The research, posted as a pre-print and yet to be peer-reviewed, estimated the effect of both the COVID-19 vaccines on laboratory confirmed symptomatic disease in individuals aged 70 […]
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Srinagar: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, who is Lok Sabha member from Srinagar, on Tuesday got his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital here, officials said. Abdullah, 85, was given the first dose of the vaccine at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, the officials said. Omar Abdullah, son of the NC […]
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Jammu: Five months after they registered for the much-publicised Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (ABPM-JAY), most of the 65,000 Kashmiri Pandit applicants have not received their health cards yet, which they have blamed on the “offline registration process” followed by the . The scheme was launched in Jammu and Kashmir by Prime Minister […]
