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Sgr advocate appointed judge of JK High Court

New Delhi: A prominent advocate was on Tuesday appointed a judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. According to a Law Ministry notification, Javed Iqbal Wani has been appointed a judge of the common high court of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh. His recommendation, made by the […]

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Suspended DSP Davinder Singh moves Delhi court, seeks bail

New Delhi: Suspended Jammu and Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh, arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway earlier this year, moved a Delhi court on Tuesday seeking bail. Singh and two other accused in the case – Irfan Shafi Mir and Sayed Naveed Mushtaq – moved the applications, claiming they […]

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Pak army resorts to shelling along LoC in Poonch

Jammu: The Pakistan army resorted to heavy shelling along the Line of Control in Poonch district on Tuesday, prompting strong retaliation by the Indian Army, an official said. “At about 0630 am today, the Pakistan army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and intense shelling with mortars along the LoC in Mankote […]

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COVID-19: Five more test positive in Ladakh, tally rises to 108

Leh: Five more persons tested positive for coronavirus in Leh district of Ladakh, taking the total number of cases in the union territory to 108, officials said on Tuesday. All the five persons have been shifted to a COVID hospital in Leh, said a bulletin issued by the Directorate of Health Services Ladakh. The union […]

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Forces detect IED in Baramulla village

Srinagar: Security forces averted a militant attack by timely detection of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. A patrol party of the Army noticed the IED planted by the ultras by the roadside at the Saidpora crossing in the Dangiwacha area of Baramulla early in […]

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COVID-19 toll rises to 7200 in India, record jump in cases

New Delhi: The novel coronavirus toll rose to 7,200 with 271 more deaths and the number of infections climbed to 2,56,611 in India on Monday after a record single-day spike of 9,983 cases, the Health Ministry said in its revised data. The country has been registering over 9,000 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for […]

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Faceoff at LAC: Implement consensus reached between two premiers, China tells India

Beijing: China and India have agreed to work to maintain peace along the LAC and resolve the border standoff through talks while implementing the consensus reached between the two countries’ leadership that “differences” do not escalate into “disputes”, a top Chinese official said on Monday. The remarks of China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying came […]

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Talks with China positive, will continue: Rajnath Singh

Mumbai: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said India’s military and diplomatic levels talks with China have been positive and will continue. Addressing the BJP’s Maharashtra Jan-Samvad Rally via video link, the minister also said the Narendra Modi-led government will ensure that India’s pride is not affected as far as the situation along Indo-China border […]

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Shopian encounter: Four Hizbul militants killed, 3 troopers injured

Srinagar: Security forces killed four Hizbul Mujahideen militants on Monday in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, taking the total number of slain militants during the past 24 hours in South Kashmir to nine. Lauding the role of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, CRPF and the army, General officer Commanding (GoC) 15 Corps Lt Gen B S […]

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2020 witnessed killing of 88 militants, arrest of 240 OGW’s: DGP

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Monday said 88 militants, including a number of top commanders, were killed and 280 others arrested so far in the Union Territory this year. Twenty-two of the militants, including six top commanders, were killed in the past two weeks, dealing a major blow to […]