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More trouble in store for Nawaz Sharif

Imran Khan asks party leaders for legal strategy to bring him back from UK

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked his party leaders to devise a legal strategy to bring back former premier Nawaz Sharif from the UK as in the absence of an extradition treaty between the two countries it would be difficult to get him extradited, according to a media report. Presiding over the first […]

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Maintenance, alimony: PIL in SC seeks uniform grounds for all citizens

New Delhi: A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking “gender and religion neutral” uniform grounds of maintenance and alimony for all citizens keeping with the spirit of the Constitution and international conventions. The plea filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeks directions to the Union home and law ministries […]

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185 inmates test positive for COVID-19 in Jammu: DG Prisons

Says temporary jails being set up across Jammu

Jammu: A total of 185 prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 in different jails across the Jammu region, Director General of Prisons V K Singh said on Saturday. He said temporary jails are being set up in various districts to isolate the asymptomatic positive detenues as part of efforts to ensure safety of the jail […]

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69 new COVID-19 cases in Ladakh; tally reaches 4,429

Leh: The Union Territory of Ladakh has reported 69 fresh COVID-19 cases, raising its tally to 4,429, while 42 patients were cured of the disease in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. The region has recorded 61 deaths — 35 in Kargil district and 26 in Leh district — since the outbreak of […]

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia conducted for jail inmates

Jammu: Despite difficult circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir prisons department on Saturday conducted second Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) at a jail here to help inmates overcome various issues related to attitude and behaviour before their release, officials said. The orientation session under the supervision of Director General of […]

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Atal Tunnel takes Ladakh a step closer to round-the-year connectivity: LG Mathur

Leh: Ladakh Lt Governor R K Mathur on Saturday expressed happiness on the inauguration of the Atal Tunnel and said it took the Union Territory a step closer to the round-the-year connectivity with the rest of the country. This day is momentous for the entire country as it addresses a major infrastructure gap. More so […]

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Amshipora fake encounter: Process to exhume, handover of bodies to be completed soon: DGP

Amshipora fake encounter: Process to exhume, handover of bodies to be completed soon: DGP

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Dilbag Singh on Friday said the legal process to exhume and hand over the bodies of three persons from Rajouri who were killed in an alleged fake encounter by Army in Shopian district of south Kashmir in July would be completed soon. “The process is on. We have started […]

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Police seeks NRI businessman Mubeen Shah’s custody

Seeks attachments of his properties

Srinagar: Eleven months after revoking his detention under the stringent Public Safety Act, Jammu and Kashmir Police has initiated the process of taking NRI businessman Mubeen Shah into custody and attachment of his properties. The police had registered a case against Shah in June this year under various sections of the Indian Penal Code over […]

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NIA files charge-sheet against three men trained in Pak

New Delhi: The NIA has filed a charge-sheet against three persons who allegedly underwent training in Pakistan to carry out militant attacks in India on the instructions of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an official said. The charge-sheet against Muneeb Hameed Bhat, Junaid Ahmad Mattoo and Umer Rashid Wani, all residents of Jammu and Kashmir’s […]

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Covid-19: US President Trump, first lady test positive

Covid-19: US President Trump, first lady test positive

Washington: US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, a development that is likely to affect his hectic election campaign just weeks before the presidential polls. “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. […]