Added on January 27, 2020
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Jammu: A speeding bus collided with a truck on the Jammu-Pathankot highway in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, injuring seventeen people, officials said. The bus was on its way to Jammu from Kathua. The injured, all travelling in the bus, were admitted to hospitals in Gagwal and Samba, they said. According to a passenger, […]
Added on January 26, 2020
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Srinagar: Mobile phone services were restored in Kashmir on Sunday hours after being suspended as a precautionary measure for ensuring an incident-free Republic Day celebration in the Valley, officials said. “The mobile telephone services were restored at 4.00 pm across Kashmir,” one of the officials said. However, the mobile Internet services remain suspended, they said. Suspension […]
Added on January 26, 2020
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London: The European Parliament is set to debate and vote on a resolution tabled by some of its members against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, which it says marks a dangerous shift in the country’s citizenship regime. The resolution, tabled by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) Group in the Parliament earlier this week, is set […]
Added on January 26, 2020
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said insurgency in the Northeast has come down and one of the main reasons is that all issues of the region are being resolved through peaceful dialogue. In this year’s first ‘Mann ki Baat’, the PM’s monthly radio address, Modi also appealed to all those trying to find […]
Added on January 26, 2020
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Srinagar: Residents of Kashmir got respite from intense cold wave conditions as the mercury settled closer to the freezing point in Srinagar, a Meteorological (MeT) Department official said on Sunday. The mercury continued its upward trend as the minimum temperature in the city settled at minus 0.2 degrees Celsius compared to minus 3 degrees the previous […]
Added on January 26, 2020
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Srinagar: Armies of India and China held a ceremonial Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) in Ladakh sector on Sunday to mark the country’s 71st Republic Day, a defence spokesperson said. The meeting was conducted at Indian BPM huts at Chushul-Moldo and DBO-TWD meeting points of eastern Ladakh, he said. He said the Indian delegation was led by […]
Added on January 26, 2020
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Guwahati/Kolkata/Patna: The 71st Republic Day was celebrated with pomp and pageantry across the eastern region on Sunday, even as four serial explosions rocked Assam early in the day, and sparse protests over the new citizenship law were reported from parts of the state and neighbouring West Bengal. Barring Meghalaya, where Tathagata Roy is on leave […]
Added on January 24, 2020
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Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police’s crime branch sleuths raided the house of a cashier of the public health engineering (PHE) department on Friday and seized documents in connection with financial misappropriation. The crime branch has registered a case against Nikhil Gandral for alleged misappropriation of government revenue in the PHE department to the tune of Rs […]
Added on January 24, 2020
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Jammu: A court in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Friday convicted a man of raping a 20-year-old woman in 2011 and sentenced him to seven years of rigorous imprisonment. The District and Sessions Judge Reasi also slapped Rs 10,000 fine on Rakesh Kumar after finding him guilty in the rape case. A complaint against Kumar, […]
Added on January 24, 2020
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Beijing: Battling the fast spreading coronavirus, China on Friday said that it is building a 1,000-bed hospital for patients infected with the deadly virus that has claimed 26 lives so far with confirmed cases rising sharply to over 880, prompting authorities to shut down 13 cities during the country’s most important holiday. Dampening the celebrations of […]
