Added on January 11, 2021
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Srinagar: The Srinagar-Jammu national highway was reopened on Sunday after seven days in the wake of heavy snowfall last week, even as the city and some other parts of Kashmir received another spell of snowfall, officials said. The 260 kilometre-long highway — the only all-weather road connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country — […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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Air traffic disrupted as fresh downpour halts life
Srinagar: Air traffic to and from Kashmir was affected on Saturday as several flights were cancelled due to fresh snowfall in Srinagar and other parts of the Valley, officials said. They said snow accumulated on the runway of the Srinagar airport which hampered the flight operations. No flight operations have taken place at Srinagar airport […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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New Delhi: India will launch its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the world’s largest inoculation programme with priority to be given to nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers. The decision, the government said on Saturday, was taken at a high-level meeting where Modi reviewed the […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday asked the Centre why it wants farmer groups opposed to the new agricultural reforms to move the Supreme Court and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should quit if he is not competent enough to repeal them. People have elected the government and not the Supreme Court, Congress chief spokesperson […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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Jammu: PDP youth president Waheed Para was on Saturday granted bail by an NIA court here after remaining in custody for one-and-a-half month for his alleged links with Hizbul Mujahideen militants. Para, who recently won district development council (DDC) elections from his home town Pulwama district of south Kashmir, was produced in the NIA court, […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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Second such incident in three months
New Delhi: In a second such incident in nearly three months, a Chinese soldier was apprehended by the Indian Army at the southern bank of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh on Friday morning after he transgressed across the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), official sources said on Saturday. The capture of […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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New Delhi: India and China have maintained communication at the ground level to avoid any “misunderstandings and misjudgments” even as discussions continue for achieving complete disengagement in all friction areas, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday. Asked about the status of talks with the Chinese side over the border row, MEA Spokesperson Anurag […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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Jammu: Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked firing and mortar shelling on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB) in Rajouri and Kathua districts, officials said on Saturday. There was, however, no report of damage on the Indian side, the officials said. “At about 12.30 pm […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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New Delhi: A total of 15 states and Union Territories have a cumulative COVID-19 positivity rate below the national average of 5.79 per cent with Bihar having the lowest positivity rate of 1.44 per cent, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Over 18 crore total COVID-19 tests have been conducted in the country till date […]
Added on January 10, 2021
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New Delhi: The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Saturday said it will pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the farmers’ movement against the Centre’s new agri laws by collecting soil from across the country, especially from towns and villages of farmers who died, and create a map of India with it in […]
