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Jammu: Days after Jammu and Kashmir administration detained 168 Rohingyas, CPI(M) on Tuesday said the Rohingya refugees’ issue needs to be seen through a humanitarian rather than political angle. Regional Secretary CPI(M) Jammu Sham Prasad Kesar said so far nothing adverse has been found against the Rohingya refugees in the union territory and keeping that […]
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Jammu: Police seized 38 kilograms of poppy from a Punjab-bound truck on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway and arrested two suspected drug peddlers in Udhampur district on Tuesday, officials said. During routine checking, a police team intercepted the truck on the highway at Jakhani area and recovered poppy concealed in a modified compartment in the vehicle, […]
Added on March 9, 2021
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Issues in Co-WIN, hesitancy were main reasons
New Delhi: At the start of the COVID-19 vaccination drive, fewer beneficiaries than planned attended inoculation sessions due to transient technical issues in the Co-WIN portal, vaccine hesitancy etc, which have progressively been addressed, Rajya Sabha was informed in February. It was inadvertently reported as a reply given on March 8. The rate of vaccination […]
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New Delhi: Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are the six states that cumulatively account for 86.25 per cent of the new coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Maharashtra has reported a maximum of 11,141 fresh cases in a single day, accounting for 59.90 per […]
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Jammu: The Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) on Monday froze five bank accounts amounting to over Rs 54.27 lakh of a drug cartel in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. “We have got five bank accounts frozen of a drug cartel in Kashmir. The head of this cartel is Masood Ahmed Dar of Bijbehara of Anantnag,” […]
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New Delhi: Thousands of women farmers held protest marches and delivered speeches at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur protest sites at Delhi’s borders on International Women’s Day. Noting that women contribute significantly to the country’s farming sector, the organisers have laid out elaborate plans to let women farmers manage the stage, arrange food and security […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said when India commemorates its 75 years of independence, the country will take “bold steps” to achieve targets that seemed impossible at some point, and emphasised that celebrations should be based on public participation. Speaking at the first meeting of the 259-member high-level national committee headed by […]
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New Delhi: The Opposition’s continuous uproar and persistent demand for a discussion on the increase in petrol, diesel and LPG prices on Monday led to washout of the day’s proceedings in Rajya Sabha. The upper house which met for the first time in the second part of the Budget Session saw repeated adjournments aa the […]
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Srinagar: A soldier was found dead near the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, an Army official said on Monday. The official said Gunner Trived Prakash, posted at Kachhal, was found dead due to fire from his service weapon, at sentry post on March 7. “The circumstances and reason […]
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Jammu: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday said he does not have time to campaign for the Trinamool Congress in the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections. He also asserted that India should abide by the United Nations charter on refugees in dealing with the Rohingya crisis. “I do not have time for campaigning,” Abdullah […]
