Added on January 31, 2021
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Washington/Islamabad: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken has spoken over phone with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and discussed the accountability of convicted terrorists responsible for the brutal murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, according to the State Department. Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and […]
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New Delhi: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which guards the Line of Actual Control with China, has posted a new officer to head its frontier in Ladakh, official sources said on Saturday. Lhari Dorjee Lhatoo, a 1999-batch officer of the Manipur cadre, will be replacing ITBP Inspector General (IG) Deepam Seth, who was commanding the […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is absolutely essential for India and Pakistan to be able to come together and seriously discuss their problems, cautioning that any military confrontation would be a disaster of unmitigated proportions for both countries and the whole world. Well, what I said in the statement…is unfortunately the […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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Srinagar: Cold wave conditions intensified in Kashmir on Friday as mercury plunged by two degrees in Srinagar, while the minimum temperature elsewhere in the valley stayed mostly 10 degrees below freezing point, officials said. Srinagar city recorded a low of minus 7.7 degrees Celsius plunging more than two degrees from minus 5.6 degrees Celsius the […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Friday recorded 76 new coronavirus cases, taking the tally to 1,24,373, even as one death due to the virus took place in the last 24 hours, officials said. Out of the fresh cases, 16 were from Jammu division and 60 from Kashmir division of the union territory, they said. Srinagar […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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Says govt ‘vigilant’ amid standoff with China
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind strongly defended the three new agri laws saying their benefits have begun reaching 10 crore small farmers instantly and condemned as “‘very unfortunate” the Republic Day violence and “dishonour” to the tricolour during the tractor parade by the protesting farm unions here. In his customary address to the joint […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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New Delhi: Terming the boycott of President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament by opposition parties as “unfortunate”, the BJP on Friday said as the symbol constitutional head of the country, the President is above political differences, and attacked the Congress, saying its “arrogance” is the “real problem”. Asserting that opposition […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the only solution to the farmers’ issue was throwing the new agri laws in the “waste paper basket” and warned that if not resolved, the agitation will spread to other parts of the country. In a no-holds-barred attack at the Centre, Gandhi accused the government of […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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Jammu: A mysterious explosion took place near a religious place in Rajouri district on Friday, officials said. Police have launched a probe into the incident, they added. The explosion took place near a boundary wall of the religious place in Palma Kotedhara village on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday at around 1 am, […]
Added on January 30, 2021
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Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti accused the BJP-led Centre on Friday of using the template of “terrorising Kashmiris” into silence in other parts of the country as well, including in relation to farmer protests. “GOIs template of terrorising Kashmiris into silence by using draconian laws & othering them is being extended to other parts of […]
