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Srinagar: Two non-locals were shot dead by militants in Srinagar and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. Arvind Kumar Sah (30), a resident of the Banka area in Bihar, was shot at by the ultras outside a park at Eidgah in Srinagar in the evening, a police official said. He said […]
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‘11 militants have been killed in nine encounters’
Srinagar: A senior Jammu and Kashmir Police officer on Saturday ruled out any security lapse behind the recent civilian killings in the Valley and said that it is not possible to provide security to all those who may be soft targets for terrorists. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, Inspector General […]
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Massive search operation continues: Army
Jammu: Two more soldiers, including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), were killed as the massive search operation to track down militants continued for the sixth day in the forest areas twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri on Saturday, officials said. With the latest killings, a total of nine Army personnel, including two JCOs, have […]
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Gurgaon: Counter-terrorism commando force National Security Guard has been deployed at the IAF stations in Srinagar and Jammu to provide anti-drone security cover to these vital installations, the force’s director general M A Ganapathy said on Saturday. The first-ever drone attack took place on June 27 at the Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Jammu […]
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Srinagar: Hilal Rather, son of veteran National Conference leader Abdul Rahim Rather, joined the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference on Saturday. Rather, who is out on bail in a case related to diversion of loan money taken from Jammu and Kashmir Bank, joined the People’s Conference in the presence of party chairman Sajad Gani Lone. […]
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Washington: Describing the Indian government’s response to the COVID-19 situation as “swift and substantial”, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the country continued with labour reforms and privatisation despite the pandemic. The IMF in its report based on “consultations” among members, however, sounded a note of caution saying that the economic outlook remains “clouded” […]
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New Delhi: Petrol and diesel price on Saturday was hiked again by 35 paise a litre to take retail rates across the country to new record highs. With this hike, petrol is now at Rs 100-a-litre mark or more in all state capitals, while diesel has touched the 100-level in a dozen states. Diesel is […]
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New Delhi: A deputy labour commissioner in the Jammu and Kashmir administration was allegedly robbed by members of a ‘Thak Thak’ gang in south Delhi’s Khanpur area, police said on Saturday. The 47-year-old official is a resident of Vasant Kunj, they said. According to the police, two to three days ago, when the victim was […]
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Plans to initiate measures to boost vaccine manufacturing
Washington: The head of the US International Development Finance Corporation would be visiting India later this month as part of the Quad’s efforts to boost vaccine manufacturing. The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a state-run development finance institution, which invests in development projects primarily in lower- and middle-income countries. Leading a high-powered […]
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported 82 COVID-19 cases and zero daily deaths due to the disease on Saturday, taking the union territory’s infection tally to 3,30,967. Fifteen of these were from Jammu division and 67 from Kashmir division, officials said. They said Srinagar district recorded the highest number of 37 new cases, followed Baramulla with […]
