Added on March 15, 2021
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New Delhi: The Indus Commissioners of India and Pakistan will meet here on March 23 and 24 to discuss a host of issues, including Islamabad’s concerns about the design of Indian hydropower projects on the Chenab River, a top official said on Sunday. This will be the annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission. Under […]
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Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has accorded approval to the creation of 119 posts in 10 new Auxiliary Nursing Midwifery (ANM) and General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) schools and five nursing colleges, an official spokesperson said on Sunday. With this, all the 15 new nursing schools and colleges will be made fully operational, he […]
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Washington: The leaders of the four-nation Quad have reaffirmed that they are striving to ensure that the Indo-Pacific is accessible, dynamic and governed by international law and bedrock principles such as freedom of navigation and peaceful resolution of disputes, and free from coercion, sending a clear message to China which is flexing its muscles in […]
Added on March 14, 2021
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Bans wearing of Burka
Colombo (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka on Saturday announced plans to ban the wearing of burqas and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools known as madrassas, citing national security. Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekara said he signed a paper on Friday seeking the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers to ban burqas […]
Added on March 14, 2021
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New Delhi: The Health Ministry said on Saturday that more than 20 lakh vaccine doses against the coronavirus were administered across the country the previous day, the highest single-day count so far. As many as 16,39,663 beneficiaries — healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) — were vaccinated for the first dose and 4,13,874 such […]
Added on March 14, 2021
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Joins TMC, says BJP can do anything to win elections in West Bengal
Kolkata: Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha,a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime, on Saturday joined Trinamool Congress days ahead of the high- octane West Bengal assembly polls. Sinha, a senior BJP leader during Atal Bihari Vajpayee rule, told reporters it was call of the hour to ensure TMC win the assembly elections with […]
Added on March 14, 2021
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Banihal/Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was on Saturday afternoon cleared of the debris brought in by a massive mudslide in Ramban district, paving the way for resumption of one-way traffic after two days, officials said. The traffic on the highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country, would be allowed from […]
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Beijing: China is aiming to vaccinate 70-80 per cent of its population by the end of this year or mid-2022, the head of the country’s Center for Disease Control said Saturday. With four approved vaccines, China will vaccinate 900 million to 1 billion people, Gao Fu, the CDC head, said in an interview with Chinese […]
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Lahore: A top Pakistani university has expelled two students for hugging and proposing on campus, after a video of the incident went viral on social media. A special disciplinary committee of the University of Lahore held a meeting on Friday and summoned the two students but they failed to appear. The committee then decided to […]
Added on March 14, 2021
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Srinagar: Two policemen were injured in a grenade attack by militants in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The ultras hurled a grenade at a police post at Sopore bus stand in the district, a police official said. He said the two policemen sustained injuries in the blast and were taken to […]
