Added on August 31, 2020
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Jammu: Devotees across the country can now get ‘prasad’ from the shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district delivered on demand at their doorstep. The shrine atop Trikuta hills reopened on August 16 after remaining closed for nearly five months due to the coronavirus pandemic. The board managing the shrine has […]
Added on August 31, 2020
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Leh: Ladakh has reported four more coronavirus-related deaths, taking the total number of fatalities due to the disease to 32 in the Union Territory, officials said on Sunday. Two deaths each linked to COVID-19 were reported from Kargil and Leh districts on Saturday, the officials said. The death toll comprises 20 fatalities in Kargil and […]
Added on August 31, 2020
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New Delhi: The first phase of the Census and the exercise to update the National Population Register (NPR), scheduled for this year but deferred due to the coronavirus outbreak, may be delayed by a year as there is no sign of slowdown of the pandemic. The Indian census is one of the largest administrative and […]
Added on August 31, 2020
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Kabul: Afghanistan’s president has appointed a council for national reconciliation, which will have final say on whether the government will sign a peace deal with the Taliban after what are expected to be protracted and uncertain negotiations with the insurgents. The negotiations were envisaged under a US-Taliban peace agreement signed in February as intra-Afghan talks […]
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 recoveries have sprinted past 27 lakh, taking the recovery rate to 76.61 per cent, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 1.79 per cent, the health ministry said on Sunday. It also highlighted that active cases of the infection comprise only 21.60 per cent of the total caseload. With […]
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New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the second time in a month, asking what steps were being taken on repeated allegations about the global social media giant’s India unit being biased towards the ruling BJP. At a press conference, the opposition party also demanded an investigation by a […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Srinagar: Three Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants and an Army soldier were killed on Saturday in a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. A search operation was launched by security forces on a specific input regarding the presence of militants in Zadoora village in south Kashmir, a police spokesman said. He said during the […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Authorizes Farooq to widen acceptance of ‘Gupkar declaration’
Srinagar: The measures undertaken by the Centre on August 5 last year have violated the spirit of federalism and the sovereign pledges of the Union of India to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, said the political affairs committee (PAC) of the National Conference on Saturday. Presided by NC president and Srinagar MP Farooq Abdullah, […]
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Fatality rate drops to 1.81 percent
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 recoveries have crossed 26 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent, which the Centre said has been made possible due to the strategic policy of “testing aggressively, tracking comprehensively and treating efficiently” in supervised home-isolation, facility-isolation and hospitals. The case fatality rate (CFR) has also been low when compared […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally raced past 34 lakh with a single-day spike of 76,472 cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 26,48,998, pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. The total number of COVID-19 cases rose to 34,63,972, while the death toll due to […]
