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New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir has recorded close to one hundred tremors during the past three years, Union Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday. From September 2017 to August 2020, Jammu and Kashmir considered as a high seismic zone has registered 98 tremors, he said. He added that an analysis of the earthquakes […]
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Srinagar: It’s a sonic boom! It’s a pressure cooker bursting! It’s a quake! And yes, the late night boom that reverberated across the city and several parts of south Kashmir on Tuesday was indeed a quake, seismologists later confirmed. But before that, social media humour and rumour mills were already on overdrive with messages facetious, […]
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Jammu: The Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday registered a case against an employee of the Power Development Department (PDD) for allegedly securing his job on fake and fabricated documents, a spokesman of the investigating agency said. A criminal case was filed against Sadhu Ram, a resident of Bishnah area of Jammu, […]
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Srinagar: Iltija Mufti, the daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, has approached the Supreme Court seeking to modify her petition challenging the detention of her mother under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA). Mehbooba, the president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was arrested on the eve of the abrogation of Jammu […]
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Srinagar: A block development council member was shot dead by militants on Wednesday in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, police said. Bhupinder Singh, a member of the block development council of Khag block in Budgam district, was shot at by the ultras in his ancestral village Dalwash at 1945 hours, a police official said. He died […]
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Lahore: In a suspected case of honour killing, a nine-year-old boy shot dead his aunt after being told by his family to commit the crime in a village in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday in Chak 104-SB village in Sargodha, some 200 km from Lahore. According to […]
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Jammu: The Pakistan army violated ceasefire by resorting to heavy firing and mortar shelling in forward areas along LoC in three sectors in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said. “At about 0900 hours today, Pakistan army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and intense shelling with mortars along LoC […]
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United Nations: India has termed as “completely unacceptable” references to Jammu and Kashmir by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his address to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly, saying Ankara should learn to respect the sovereignty of other nations and reflect on its own policies more deeply. “We have seen remarks by […]
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Jammu: Total revenue receipts of Jammu and Kashmir government for 2016-17 were Rs 41,980.72 crore as compared to Rs 35,780.60 crore in the previous year, marking an increase of Rs 6,200.12 crore, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said on Wednesday. Out of this, 28 per cent of the total receipts were raised […]
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Srinagar: Dubbed Cargo, the headquarters of Jammu and Kashmir’s elite Special Operations Group buzzes with activity as various teams work 24X7 to track militant activity and assess out the ground situation in the Valley and plan operations. With each team working on a dedicated task, the SOG is moving full steam ahead with its efforts […]
