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New Delhi: The government’s ninth round of negotiations with protesting farmer unions will take place as scheduled on Friday and the Centre is hopeful of positive discussions, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Thursday. “The government is ready to hold talks with farmers’ leaders with an open mind,” Tomar told reporters here. Clearing the […]
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New Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said the protesting farmer unions will attend the scheduled ninth round of talks with the government and asserted it is necessary to continue the dialogue to resolve the deadlock and end the agitation. While the previous eight rounds of negotiations have failed to end the […]
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Jammu: Police on Thursday informed people to use the Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) to address emergencies of citizens. The ERSS is designed to address all emergency signals received from citizens through voice calls, SMS, email, panic SOS signal, ERSS web portal, a police spokesperson said. An SOS alert can be activated through the “112-Mobile […]
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Jammu: More than 270 militants are currently active in Jammu and Kashmir, which is less than the 2019 and 2020 figures, official sources have said. The Union Territory has seen a decrease in militancy incidents, infiltration and civilian killings in 2020, while security forces carried out more than 100 “successful” counter- operations killing 225 militants, […]
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Beijing/Wuhan: Thirteen international experts of the WHO arrived in Wuhan on Thursday for the long-awaited probe into the origins of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, while two others did not board the flight from Singapore to the central Chinese city after they tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. The international team of 13 scientists examining the origins […]
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Washington: The US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump by 232 to 197 votes for his role in for inciting last week’s deadly Capitol Hill riot, making him the first president in American history to be impeached twice. Ten Republican Congressmen also joined the Democrats to vote in favour of an article of impeachment […]
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Asks both nations to find lasting resolution
London: The UK government on Wednesday reiterated its unchanged stance that the situation in Kashmir remains an issue for India and Pakistan to find a lasting political resolution to the issue. Responding to a debate held in the House of Parliament complex on the Political situation in Kashmir , Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) […]
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London: India has expressed its dismay at some of the parliamentarians who participated in a debate on Kashmir in the Houses of Parliament complex in London relying on “false assertions” and unsubstantiated allegations propagated by a “third country” an apparent reference to Pakistan. The debate, organised by backbench British MPs at Westminster Hall in the […]
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New Delhi: The Budget session of Parliament will begin on January 29 with the address of President Ram Nath Kovind to the joint sitting of both the Houses and the Union Budget will be presented on February 1. A communication from the Lok Sabha Secretariat said on Thursday that the session would conclude on April […]
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Islamabad: In an embarrassment to Prime Minister Imran Khan, the high court here on Thursday restrained one of his close associates from working as the chairman of state-run Pakistan Television (PTV). Supreme Court lawyer, politician, and former TV host Naeem Bukhari was appointed as chief of the state broadcaster in November last year, inviting criticism […]
