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PDP youth wing president Waheed Para arrested again

PDP youth wing president Waheed Para arrested again

Srinagar: PDP youth wing president Waheed Para, who was granted bail by an NIA court Saturday, was arrested again on Monday by the Jammu and Kashmir Police over a case related to an alleged nexus involving politicians, terrorists and secessionist forces, officials said. The case was registered by the Criminal Investigation (Kashmir) range which has […]

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Mehbooba terms arrest as ‘political vendetta’

Mehbooba terms arrest as ‘political vendetta’

Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday termed the arrest of her party colleague Waheed Para an act of political vendetta against her party for raising voice against “Delhi’s onslaught”. “After getting bail from NIA Court due to lack of evidence, @parawahid has now been booked under UAPA by CIK on fabricated charges in a […]

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Wuhan probe: WHO experts’ team to visit China on January 14

Wuhan probe: WHO experts’ team to visit China on January 14

Beijing: China said on Monday that a group of experts from the WHO will arrive in the country on Thursday for a long-anticipated probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, ending the uncertainty and delay which drew sharp criticism from the world health body. Experts from the WHO will conduct a field visit to […]

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RSS leader arrives in Jammu

Will review organisational matters of RSS in JK

Jammu: Senior leader of the RSS, Suresh “Bhaiyyaji” Joshi, arrived here on Monday on a four-day visit to review the organisational matters of the Sangh in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Joshi, the national general secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), will take stock of the work done by the organisation during the COVID-19 […]

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Srinagar-Jammu national highway reopens for traffic

Srinagar: The Srinagar-Jammu national highway was reopened on Sunday after seven days in the wake of heavy snowfall last week, even as the city and some other parts of Kashmir received another spell of snowfall, officials said. The 260 kilometre-long highway — the only all-weather road connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country — […]

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Kashmir gets another snow ‘surprise’

Kashmir gets another snow ‘surprise’

Air traffic disrupted as fresh downpour halts life

Srinagar: Air traffic to and from Kashmir was affected on Saturday as several flights were cancelled due to fresh snowfall in Srinagar and other parts of the Valley, officials said. They said snow accumulated on the runway of the Srinagar airport which hampered the flight operations. No flight operations have taken place at Srinagar airport […]

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COVID-19 vaccination: 3 Cr healthcare, frontline workers to get shots from Jan 16

COVID-19 vaccination: 3 Cr healthcare, frontline workers to get shots from Jan 16

New Delhi: India will launch its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the world’s largest inoculation programme with priority to be given to nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers. The decision, the government said on Saturday, was taken at a high-level meeting where Modi reviewed the […]

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PM Modi should quit if he can’t repeal farm laws: Congress

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday asked the Centre why it wants farmer groups opposed to the new agricultural reforms to move the Supreme Court and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should quit if he is not competent enough to repeal them. People have elected the government and not the Supreme Court, Congress chief spokesperson […]

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Terror financing case: PDP youth leader Waheed Para granted bail

Jammu: PDP youth president Waheed Para was on Saturday granted bail by an NIA court here after remaining in custody for one-and-a-half month for his alleged links with Hizbul Mujahideen militants. Para, who recently won district development council (DDC) elections from his home town Pulwama district of south Kashmir, was produced in the NIA court, […]

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Chinese soldier apprehended along LAC in Ladakh

Second such incident in three months

New Delhi: In a second such incident in nearly three months, a Chinese soldier was apprehended by the Indian Army at the southern bank of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh on Friday morning after he transgressed across the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), official sources said on Saturday. The capture of […]