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Kabul: The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan’s Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. With many ATMs out of cash and worries about rising food prices in this […]
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New Delhi: India’s national security challenges are becoming “complex” in view of rapidly changing geopolitical scenario globally and there is a need to create a capable and self-reliant defense industry besides a strong and modern military, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. Singh’s comments came amid growing concerns in India and elsewhere over the […]
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Jammu: A Junior Commissioned Officer of the Army died in a fierce gun fight with militants in Thanamandi area of Rajouri district on Thursday in which a militant was also killed, Army officials said. Security forces had launched a search operation in Thanamandi belt following inputs about the presence of militants there, a police official […]
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Jammu: An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 hit Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur-Katra belt in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. The temblor occurred 54 km south-east of Katra at 5.08 am, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said. The epicentre of the earthquake was five km below the surface of the earth at latitude 32.70 […]
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Islamabad: No country can “ignore” Pakistan as it convinced the Afghan Taliban to hold dialogue with the US, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has said as he boasted of Islamabad’s significant role in ensuring peace in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s efforts for the peace process in Afghanistan would be remembered for long, he said on Wednesday. “No […]
Added on August 20, 2021
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London: The COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and AstraZeneca are less effective against the Delta variant of coronavirus compared to the Alpha variant, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Oxford. The researchers, however, noted that with Delta, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca preventive, known as Covishield in India, still offer good protection […]
Added on August 19, 2021
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Washington: The US State Department has released a joint statement signed by about two dozen nations expressing concern for the rights of Afghan women and girls and urging those in power in Afghanistan to guarantee their protection.” Wednesday’s statement was signed by the United States, Britain, the European Union and 18 other countries. It says […]
Added on August 19, 2021
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New Delhi: No gunshots have been heard since the Taliban took control of Kabul but the situation is precarious and getting more so with each passing hour, say four Indian teachers in war-ravaged Afghanistan, appealing for immediate evacuation so they can return to their families back home. All four are teachers at the Bakhtar University […]
Added on August 19, 2021
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Washington: Vaccine stockpiling by nations may strongly impact global trajectories of COVID-19 case numbers, and increase the potential emergence of novel variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a modelling study has warned. The research, published in the journal Science on Tuesday, explored the effects of different vaccine-sharing schemes on the global persistence of COVID-19 infections, as […]
Added on August 19, 2021
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 100 fresh cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the infection count to 3,23,682, while another fatality pushed the death toll to 4,400 in the Union Territory, officials said. Twenty-six of the fresh cases were from the Jammu division and 74 from the Kashmir division, the officials said. They said […]
