Added on January 29, 2020
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Banihal/Jammu: A Special Police Officer (SPO) was run over and killed by a speeding truck on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district, police said on Wednesday. The 35-year-old SPO identified as Parvaiz Ahmad Malik was regulating traffic on the highway when he was hit by the Kashmir-bound truck at Shaban Bass area of Banihal […]
Added on January 29, 2020
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Washington: Terming India’s amended Citizenship Act as anti-minority, a group of eminent human rights and social activists, including Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey, has claimed that the freedom of expression is under threat in the world’s largest democracy. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed in December last year, prompting protests across India. According to […]
Added on January 29, 2020
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Beijing: As India prepares to airlift its citizens from Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, China said on Wednesday that it would make all appropriate arrangements and provide necessary assistance if any country “insists” on evacuating its nationals. Besides India, several other countries including the US, France, Japan, South Korea, are making arrangements […]
Added on January 29, 2020
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Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday underlined the need for high-end equipment for security forces to detect drones used by Pakistan to smuggle weapons into the border state. The issue was discussed during a meeting convened by the CM with Congress MPs from both the Houses and to discuss budget proposals for the […]
Added on January 28, 2020
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Jammu: The upper reaches received fresh snowfall while rains lashed the plains in the Jammu region where the minimum temperature settled several degrees above season’s average, the meteorological department said on Tuesday. Snowfall was reported from the high altitude areas of various districts, while rains lashed Jammu city and other areas in the plains since early […]
Added on January 28, 2020
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Gurgaon: The CRPF has carried out a mega audit of its over three lakh personnel to check for any possible “subversive” elements in the wake of a Jammu and Kashmir Police officer being caught with terrorists recently, the chief of the paramilitary force said here on Tuesday. CRPF Director General (DG) A P Maheshwari said the […]
Added on January 28, 2020
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Jammu: BSF troops guarding the 200-km-long International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir will soon be armed with anti-drone system, officials said on Tuesday, a day after a Pakistani drone was downed in Arnia sector. “We are working on it,” a senior officer told PTI. On Monday night, alert BSF troops shot down a Pakistani cameraless […]
Added on January 28, 2020
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Jammu: A court in Rajouri on Tuesday awarded a total of six years imprisonment and Rs 23,000 fine to three persons convicted for trespassing and attempt to abduct and outrage the modesty of a girl in a village in the border district of Jammu and Kashmir over nine years ago, police said. On the intervening night […]
Added on January 28, 2020
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Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration ordered officials on Tuesday to screen travellers arriving from abroad, including China and Nepal, at airports for the deadly novel coronavirus. The virus has killed more than 100 people in China after breaking out in the city of Wuhan and has been spreading rapidly to other countries. In other […]
Added on January 28, 2020
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Jammu: Out of 187 reforms proposed by the Centre under the ease of doing business programme, 149 have been implemented so far in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, an official spokesman said. It was conveyed at a meeting convened by Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, commissioner secretary, industries and commerce, Jammu & Kashmir, to review […]
