Added on May 24, 2020
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Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi telephoned UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday to convey its concern over India’s decision to change the domicile law for Jammu and Kashmir. Under the domicile rules, all those persons and their children who have resided for 15 years in Jammu and Kashmir or have studied for seven […]
Added on May 24, 2020
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New Delhi: At least five rounds of talks between Indian and Chinese troops this week have failed to de-escalate tension in Pangong Tso lake and Galwan Valley in Ladakh as the two sides maintained aggressive posturing in the disputed border areas, government sources said. The Indian Army has been matching up to the Chinese build […]
Added on May 24, 2020
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Karachi: Ninety-seven people, including nine children, were killed and two passengers miraculously survived a fiery crash when a Pakistan International Airlines plane with 99 travellers on board plunged into a densely populated residential area near the airport here, the Army said on Saturday. Flight PK-8303 from Lahore crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model […]
Added on May 24, 2020
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Tral: Amid Covid-19 pandemic, Muslims in South Kashmir’s Tral region arranged all necessary help to a family to perform last rites of a Kashmiri elderly Pandit. Jagan Nath Butt, a resident of Buchoo Tral village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district died at his native village today. As the news about his death broke in the […]
Added on May 24, 2020
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Breakthrough unlikely within a year
New Delhi: As Indian firms scramble to develop a vaccine for coronavirus, experts feel that research in the country is still at a nascent stage and any concrete breakthrough is not likely within a year. The Indian government and private firms have stepped up efforts to develop a vaccine to halt the spread of COVID-19 […]
Added on May 24, 2020
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Islamabad: The number of COVID-19 cases in Pakistan would continue to multiply if people did not follow the precautions to keep the virus at bay, a senior government official has warned as the nationwide tally of the infections crossed 52,000 with 1,101 deaths. Pakistan Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Health Zafar Mirza on Friday said […]
Added on May 24, 2020
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Jammu: The mercury in Jammu city has been showing an upward trend with the minimum temperature on Saturday shooting up by 5.1 degrees to the season’s high of 27.1 degrees Celsius which is over two notches above normal, a weather department official said. The winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday registered a high […]
Added on May 23, 2020
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Vaccine moves to next stage of human trial
London: University of Oxford researchers working on a vaccine to protect against coronavirus on Friday confirmed that they are moving to the next level as they begin recruiting over 10,000 people for the second phase of human trials. The first phase of the trial began last month with 1,000 healthy adults aged 55 and under […]
Added on May 23, 2020
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Karachi: At least 34 people have died when a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 107 people on board crashed into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport here on Friday, officials said. Flight PK-8303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when it crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near […]
Added on May 23, 2020
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday sought responses from the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir on a plea seeking setting up of a permanent bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) to deal with service disputes of government employees in the Union Territory. A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S […]
