Added on December 26, 2020
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New Delhi: Students from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar will get direct admission to PhD programme at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, according to an MoU signed on Friday. The MoU was signed by V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi and Rakesh Sehgal, Director, NIT Srinagar. As per the agreement, NIT students […]
Added on December 26, 2020
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Jammu: Senior PDP leader and former legislator Surinder Choudhary has been booked for allegedly manhandling a BJP worker in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, police said on Friday. A video of PDP workers led by Choudhary barging into a shop and beating a BJP worker, Ripu Daman, in the Nowshera area has gone viral on […]
Added on December 26, 2020
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Karachi: British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three aides, whose release in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl was ordered by a court here, would walk out of the prison on Saturday, police and lawyer said on Friday. In a surprise move, a two-judge bench of the Sindh […]
Added on December 26, 2020
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Srinagar: Christmas was celebrated in Kashmir on Friday with religious fervour as devotees held special prayers for peace and prosperity in the union territory. However, the celebrations were a low-key affair due to the coronavirus-related restrictions. The biggest gathering in the Valley was held at Holy Family Catholic Church at Moulana Azad Road in the […]
Added on December 26, 2020
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Larkipora (Kashmir): Sepoy Gurvinder Singh of the Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles was given a new mission in Kashmir on Friday — ‘Mission Smile’. His crisp olive greens gave way to fluffy red costume, assault rifle which always slings on shoulders was replaced by goodie bags and voila! “Fauji” Santa was ready to welcome kids from […]
Added on December 26, 2020
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New Delhi: Domestic violence against women remained a prime cause of concern for the Ministry of Woman and Child Development in 2020 with over 5,000 such complaints received in the year. The National Commission for Women was flooded with complaints of domestic violence in March as the lockdown, imposed in view of the coronavirus outbreak, […]
Added on December 26, 2020
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Jammu: Three Punjab-based narcotic smugglers were arrested with 70 kg of poppy and Rs 1.5 lakh cash in Samba district on Friday, police said. The accused were identified as Jaswinder Lal, Gurtej Singh and Neeraj Kumar, they said. A truck on its way to Punjab from Kashmir was intercepted by a police party during checking […]
Added on December 25, 2020
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Srinagar: PAGD president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said the government should immediately release all PDP leaders who were “detained” ahead of the announcement of the District Development Council (DDC) election results if it wants democracy to survive. Talking to reporters after the first meeting of the Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) following the conclusion […]
Added on December 25, 2020
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Srinagar: The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Thursday warned against disrespecting the people’s mandate in the District Development Council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir, saying tinkering with democracy is totally unacceptable. At the end of the first meeting of the alliance after the polls, in which it secured a majority (110 seats), […]
Added on December 25, 2020
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Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that there is no possibility of a diplomatic dialogue with India in the prevailing situation, according to a media report on Thursday. New Delhi has already been maintaining its stand that “talks and terror” cannot go together as it continues to ask Islamabad to take demonstrable […]
