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India crosses 75 crore Covid vaccine doses
New Delhi: The World Health Organization’s approval for the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, developed by the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, is likely to come this month, official sources said Monday. The WHO has so far approved Covid vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, US pharma majors Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, China’s Sinopharm and Oxford-AstraZeneca for emergency use. Covaxin […]
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New Delhi: In a first, the Centre has decided to cross check land records before the procurement of paddy from next month in a bid to ensure the MSP reaches farmers and not traders, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said on Monday. Most procuring states, barring Assam and Uttarakhand as well as Jammu and Kashmir, are […]
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Bhaderwah: The bi-annual board examination of Class 12 students started on Monday in the winter zone Jammu with all the students and invigilators subjected to Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) here before being allowed entry into the examination centres, officials said. This was the first offline examination being conducted by the J-K Board of School Education […]
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New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 27,254 new COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally in the country to 3,32,64,175, while the count of active cases declined to 3,74,269, according to Union Health Ministry data on Monday. The death toll due to the disease has climbed to 4,42,874, with 219 daily fatalities being recorded, […]
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Jammu: A 37-year-old man was stabbed to death by a mentally-challenged person at a barber shop on the outskirts of Jammu on Monday, police said. Mukesh Raina, a resident of Brij Nagar, had gone for a haircut when he was attacked by Surinder Kumar inside the barber shop at TCP Kharian, a police official said. […]
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Barcelona: Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. The second part of the Groundswell report published on Monday examines how […]
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New Delhi: Subdued prices of food items like vegetables pulled down retail inflation for the third month in a row to 5.3 per cent in August, within the RBI’s comfort zone. While the Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based retail inflation declined to 5.3 per cent in August from 6.69 per cent in the same month a […]
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Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party president Syed Mohammd Altaf Bukhari Monday said peace and harmony are imperative for progress and development of the union territory. Addressing a day-long party convention at Chougan in Kishtwar district, Bukhari said, “The impact of armed violence negatively influences development, peace and good governance, often by creating a climate […]
Added on September 13, 2021
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 105 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday, taking the tally to 3,26,904, while two fresh deaths were reported from the union territory in the past 24 hours, officials said. Out of the fresh cases, 16 were from the Jammu Division and 89 from the Kashmir Division of the union territory, they […]
Added on September 12, 2021
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SRINAGAR: To take a firsthand appraisal of the various ongoing schemes and initiatives for the development of tribal communities of J&K and to discuss their concerning issues, Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha Saturday interacted with a delegation of the Gujjar-Bakerwal community along with members of the Gaddi-Sippi Community, at Raj Bhavan. While addressing the members of […]
