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Issues fresh security advisory, asks citizens to leave Afghanistan
New Delhi: India on Tuesday started evacuating its staff from the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif and advised its citizens in Afghanistan to make immediate travel arrangements to return home before commercial air services are discontinued in view of the rapidly escalating violence by the Taliban in several provinces there. The Indian-based staff of the consulate […]
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New Delhi: The government is learnt to have requested the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider two names recommended for appointment as judges of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Sources in the government said the names were sent back for reconsideration last month. The collegium had separately recommended the names of lawyers Rahul Bharti and […]
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New Delhi: India’s air power capabilities in terms of hitting targets with precision, defending assets and use of new technologies have gone up significantly after the Balakot air strikes and rapid developments in eastern Ladakh following the Galwan Valley clashes, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said on Tuesday. In an address […]
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New Delhi: Only two persons have purchased as many properties in Jammu and Kashmir since August 2019 when Article 370 was abrogated ending the special status given to the erstwhile state, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai’s written reply came in response to a question on whether […]
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Says it has not led to exponential surge
New Delhi: The Delta Plus variant of SARS-CoV2 has been detected in 86 samples in the country so far and it has not led to any exponential surge in cases, the government said on Tuesday. “We found the Delta Plus variant in 86 (genome) samples (sequenced),” Sujit Singh, head of the National Centre for Disease […]
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London: India is ranked 122nd on a new Global Youth Development Index measuring the condition of young people across 181 countries, released by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London on Tuesday. The triennial rankings of youth development found India among the top five risers on the index between 2010 and 2018, alongside Afghanistan and Russia, advancing […]
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Crimes against women, children
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has expressed dismay over the abysmally low conviction rate in crimes against women and children in the country and suggested that the government work out a mechanism for gathering information on reasons for the delay in the investigation in criminal cases on an annual basis. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on […]
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Jammu: The crime branch of Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday booked an army deserter for fraud and impersonation after he allegedly duped a retired soldier on the pretext of arranging jobs in the Military Engineer Service (MES), a spokesman said. The case against Deepak Kumar, a deserter from 8th battalion of J&K Light Infantry […]
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Srinagar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi targeted the Centre for not allowing the opposition to raise in Parliament serious issues related to farmers, Pegasus snooping controversy and corruption, and said that his party would continue to fight against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “ideology that divides India”. As the monsoon session of Parliament continues to be marred […]
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Jammu: Two persons were arrested on the charge of terror financing in Poonch district after Rs 25.81 lakh was recovered from them, officials said on Tuesday. On a specific information, a police team along with Army personnel raided several locations in Kanga Bhrooti village near the Line of Control on Tuesday and seized Rs 25,81,500, […]
