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Islamabad: Afghan government forces battled Friday to retake a border crossing with Pakistan from Taliban insurgents, and the Reuters news agency said one of its photographers was killed in the area. The Taliban had overrun the Spin Boldak crossing earlier in the week. On Friday, witnesses on the Pakistan side of the border said they […]
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Kabul: Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winning Indian photojournalist who worked for Reuters news agency, was killed on Friday in Afghanistan while covering the fierce fighting between Afghan troops and the Taliban militants near a border crossing with Pakistan in Kandahar province. Siddiqui, in his early 40s, was on an assignment covering the clashes in […]
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16K resigned between 2011-20 New Delhi: More than 81,000 personnel of the paramilitary forces such as the CRPF and the BSF have taken voluntary retirement in the last decade, the maximum of over 11,000 in 2017 alone. According to the Union Home Ministry data, 15,904 personnel also resigned from their respective organisations between 2011 and […]
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New Delhi: A heat-tolerant COVID-19 vaccine formulation developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has proven effective against all current SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, according to a study in animals. The research, published in the ACS Infectious Diseases journal on Thursday, showed the vaccine formulations by IISc-incubated biotech start-up Mynvax triggered a strong […]
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Jammu: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio has started streaming live ‘aarti’ of Shri Amarnathji Shrine on JioTV to aid devotees unable to have physical ‘darshan’ of the holy shrine. The company has laid the necessary network and infrastructure to support live streaming in a short turnaround time, despite difficult terrain and challenging conditions, people aware […]
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Srinagar: The Army on Friday said it was encouraging to see an overwhelming response from people in Kashmir to the ‘Swarnim Vijay Mashaal’ — the victory flame to celebrate India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war — as the force paid floral tributes to soldiers who laid down their lives for the country. Army […]
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Beijing: With India firmly conveying to China that the prolongation of the existing situation in eastern Ladakh was visibly impacting the bilateral ties in a “negative manner”, Beijing on Thursday said it is ready to seek a “mutually acceptable solution” to the issues that require “urgent treatment” through negotiation. During their hour-long in-person meeting on […]
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Court to hear arguments on chargesheet
Srinagar: A special court here Thursday rejected the bail plea of PDP leader Waheed Parra, the second time in five months, and decided to hear Friday arguments on the chargesheet filed against him, officials said. Parra is considered a close aide of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. The in-camera proceedings had been […]
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Srinagar: The trial of a luxury bus boat conducted on the Jhelum river on Thursday with an aim to revive water transport in the valley, went successful, officials said. A private company, ‘Sukhnag Enterprises’, launched the luxury bus boat on trial basis in the river, they said. The bus boat has the capacity of 35 […]
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Jammu: The Army fired on a Pakistani quadcopter after it tried to venture into the Indian territory along the Line of Control (LoC) here, official sources said on Thursday. The quadcopter was spotted by the alert Army troops in Pallanwaka sector around 9 pm on Wednesday, they said. The sources said the quadcopter returned to […]
