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PM has decided’ date of war with China, Pak: UP BJP president

PM has decided’ date of war with China, Pak: UP BJP president

Ballia (UP): In a controversial remark, BJP’s Uttar Pradesh chief Swatantra Dev Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided when the country would be at war with Pakistan and China. His remarks on Friday came amid tension at the Line of Actual Control between India and China, where the two countries have massed troops. […]

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Army commanders to review situation in Ladakh, internal reforms at 4-day conference from Monday

New Delhi: Top commanders of the Army will carry out a comprehensive assessment of India’s combat readiness in eastern Ladakh as well as other sensitive areas along the Line of Actual Control with China at a four-day conference beginning Monday, government sources said. The commanders will also deliberate on a slew of long-pending reform measures […]

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Please don’t presume what SC will say on restoration of Article 370: Omar takes swipe at Prasad

Srinagar: National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah took a dig at Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday over his remarks that Article 370 of the Constitution will not be restored, and urged him not to presume what the Supreme Court judges would decide on the matter. “Dear Ravi Shankar Prasad ji, we don’t expect […]

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88 prisoners cured of COVID-19 in Jammu district jail

88 prisoners cured of COVID-19 in Jammu district jail

Jammu:  Eighty-eight prisoners, who were earlier tested positive for COVID-19, have recovered in the district jail in Amphalla here, bringing down the number of active cases in the prison to four, a senior official said on Sunday. There is no positive case among the jail staff, Amphalla District Jail Superintendent Mirza Saleem Ahmad Beig told […]

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ABVP protest outside PDP office in Jammu; several detained

Jammu: Several ABVP activists were briefly detained on Sunday after they staged a protest outside the PDP office here against the recent remarks of its president Mehbooba Mufti and allegedly threw paint at a billboard with her picture on it, officials said. Over half-a-dozen ABVP activists, carrying national flags, appeared outside the heavily guarded Peoples’ […]

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & Defence Secretary Mark Esper to arrive in India on Monday

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & Defence Secretary Mark Esper to arrive in India on Monday

New Delhi: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark T Esper will arrive here on Monday for the third edition of the two-plus-two ministerial dialogue which is taking place just a week ahead of the American presidential election and in the midst of India’s festering border row with China. The two-plus-two dialogue […]

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Drass, adjoining areas experience season’s first snowfall

Kargil: Ladakh’s Drass, the second coldest inhabited place in the world, experienced the season’s first snowfall on Sunday. It started snowing in Drass and its adjoining areas, including Zojilla pass and Mina-Marg along the 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway, in the morning and so far two to four inches of snow has accumulated on the ground, […]

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Plea in SC seeks transfer of petitions challenging minority status of five communities

New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking a transfer of all pending petitions before various high courts challenging the validity of the Centre’s 26-year-old notification declaring five communities — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsees — as minorities. The plea filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has […]

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Article 370 won’t be restored: Union Minister Prasad

Article 370 won’t be restored: Union Minister Prasad

Says Mehbooba Mufti disrespecting Indian flag

New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday accused PDP president Mehbooba Mufti of “disrespecting” the Indian flag and asserted that the revocation of Article 370 was done constitutionally and that it will not be restored. Her comments that she will not hold the tricolour till the Kashmiri flag is restored is “downright denunciation” of the national […]

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Farooq to head Gupkar alliance

Farooq to head Gupkar alliance

‘We are not anti-nation but anti BJP’: Farooq

Srinagar: Seven mainstream parties of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday gave a formal shape to their recently cobbled alliance for the restoration of Article 370, electing National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah as its chairman and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti as vice-chairperson, and asserted that theirs was “not an anti-national” grouping. Veteran CPM leader M Y Tarigami […]