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Home guards stage protest outside Raj Bhavan in Jammu

Jammu: Hundreds of home guards on Wednesday staged a protest outside the Raj Bhavan here in support of their various demands including regularization of their services and fixation of their salaries as per the Supreme Court order. The protesters, both men and women, were carrying placards and chanted slogans during an over hour-long sit-in demonstration […]

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BSF alert to thwart any misadventure by Pak: Special DG

Jammu: The BSF is fully alert to thwart any misadventure by Pakistan along the borders of the country, the force’s Special Director General, Western Command, Surender Panwar said on Wednesday. He was speaking at a civil action programme organised by the BSF at Makwal village near the International Border here as part of the force’s […]

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3 IPS officers promoted to the rank of ADGP

Jammu: Three 1996-batch IPS officers, including Jammu Zone Inspector General of Police Mukesh Singh, were promoted to the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) in Jammu and Kashmir, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. At a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam here on Tuesday, the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) cleared […]

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Lone’s goodbye to PAGD no surprise, others to follow: BJP leader

Jammu: Senior BJP leader and former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta on Wednesday said there is no surprise element in the departure of Sajad Lone-led People’s Conference from the Gupkar alliance as fall of this opportunistic amalgam is inevitable. Lone on Tuesday announced his party’s exit from the People’s Alliance for Gupkar […]

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Haryana trucker’s body found in stream

Banihal/Jammu: The body of a 22-year-old truck driver from Haryana was found in a stream in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Wednesday, two days after his vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a 150-foot-deep gorge along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, officials said. The Jammu-bound truck rolled down into a stream at Sherbibi […]

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PAGD ‘jolted’ as Sajjad Lone exits

PAGD  ‘jolted’ as Sajjad  Lone  exits

Srinagar: People’s Conference chairperson Sajad Lone on Tuesday announced his party’s exit from the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, citing a breach of trust and saying some constituents of the seven-member grouping had fielded proxy candidates in the recent district development council (DDC) elections. People know that blinded by political greed we fielded candidates against […]

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Roshini scam: CBI books former DC Pulwama, others

New Delhi: The CBI has booked former Deputy Commissioner of Pulwama and 12 others in connection with conferring of land ownership rights under the Roshni Act in alleged violation of provisions, officials said. It is alleged that Kakapora-residents Ghulam Ahmed Pandith, Ghulam Nabi Naikoo, Mohammad Amin Pandith and Farhat Pandith, Abdul Majid Sheikh and Ghulam […]

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No let up in cold wave conditions across Kashmir

Srinagar: Minimum temperatures across Kashmir stayed several degrees below the freezing point as an intense cold wave sweeps the region, a meteroelogical department official said on Tuesday. Several water bodies, including the surface of the famous Dal Lake here, have frozen, while a thick layer of ice has formed on several roads in Srinagar and […]

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Purported Arnab chats: Providing official secret info to journalist ‘criminal act’: Rahul Gandhi

Purported Arnab chats: Providing official secret info to journalist ‘criminal act’: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Providing official secret information to a journalist is a “criminal act” and both the giver and the receiver will have to go to jail, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday referring to the purported WhatsApp chats of Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami doing the rounds of social media. Addressing a press conference, […]

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Pakistan PM feels angered

Islamabad: Pakistan’s prime minister reacted angrily Monday to media reports of a text exchange between an Indian TV anchor and a former media industry executive that suggests a 2019 Indian airstrike inside Pakistan was designed to boost Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chances for re-election. Imran Khan took to Twitter to respond to Indian media […]