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Srinagar: A Kashmiri school teacher is among 47 recipients of the National Teachers Awards to be presented on the occasion of Teachers Day, officials said here on Friday. Roohi Sultana, a teacher at Boys Middle School Kashipora, Tailbal in Gulab Bagh area in the outskirts of Srinagar, has been awarded this year for demonstrating a […]
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Hyderabad: Women police personnel can engage with mothers of children in Jammu and Kashmir to prevent the youngsters from taking the “wrong path”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, while lavishing praise on the people of the union territory, hit by the menace of terrorism. Addressing the 2018 batch of IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai […]
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United Nations: Near-record violence in Afghanistan in the last few weeks creates an atmosphere of mistrust and risks derailing the peace negotiations set to begin soon between the Afghan government and the Taliban, according to a top UN official in the war-ravaged country. The planned negotiations stem from a landmark pact the US signed with […]
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Srinagar: Police said that it has launched an investigation to identify those who prepared the “hit lists” of political workers and security personnel being circulated on social media. A police spokesperson said an FIR has been registered in the matter and a full fledged criminal investigation, backed by technical teams, has been initiated. He said […]
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally raced past 38 lakh on Thursday with the sharpest single-day spike of 83,883 fresh cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 29,70,492, pushing the recovery rate to over 77 per cent, Union health ministry data showed. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country mounted to 38,53,406, while […]
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New Delhi: Army Chief Gen MM Naravane began a two-day visit to Ladakh on Thursday to carry out a comprehensive review of the security situation in the region in view of China’s fresh attempts to change status quo along the southern bank of Pangong lake, official sources said. Gen Naravane was briefed about the evolving […]
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New Delhi: In a relief to stressed borrowers who are facing hardship due to impact of COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court Thursday said that accounts which were not declared as non-performing assets till August 31 this year, shall not be declared NPA till further orders. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said this while […]
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Islamabad: Pakistan has high stakes in peace and stability in Afghanistan and a lasting solution to Afghan issues was only possible through comprehensive dialogue between all stakeholders, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday as he held talks with his Afghan counterpart. During a telephonic conversation with Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Haneef Atmar, Qureshi […]
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Islamabad: A high court in Pakistan on Thursday directed the federal government to give India another chance to appoint a lawyer to represent death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav as it adjourned hearing for a month. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) took up the case of appointment of lawyer for Jadhav to hear the review of the […]
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New Delhi: The Congress Thursday accused the Modi government of pushing the country towards an economic collapse and a financial emergency, and said note ban, GST and lockdown were “disaster strokes” not “master strokes”. The party’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the GDP slump in the first quarter will have an adverse impact on the […]
