Added on September 6, 2020
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 infection tally sprinted past 40 lakh, just 13 days after it crossed 30 lakh, with a record 86,432 cases being reported in a day, while recoveries have surged to 31,07,223 on Saturday pushing the recovery rate to 77.23 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. The total coronavirus cases mounted […]
Added on September 6, 2020
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Jammu: Jammu has witnessed a spurt in COVID-19 cases, registering 2,254 new patients in the past nine days with 520 of them on Saturday alone, owing to a strategic plan to ‘sweep clean’ the district of the infection through a massive testing exercise, officials said. The health officials said the drive pushed Jammu on the […]
Added on September 6, 2020
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Jammu: All checkpoints along Jammu-Pathankot highway have been put on alert and security strengthened following an incident of carjacking by unidentified armed persons in the neighbouring Punjab, a police official said on Saturday. The director general of Punjab Police had sounded an alert in his state, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir after three persons […]
Added on September 6, 2020
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Islamabad: Taliban officials say a senior delegation returned early Saturday to Qatar, paving the way for the start of peace talks with the Afghan government that are expected to take place in the tiny Gulf state. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media. The negotiations […]
Added on September 6, 2020
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New Delhi: In the emerging defence paradigm, India’s security would be maintained not only along the northern and western borders but in the strategic space of the extended neighbourhood as well, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat said on Saturday. He also said that India values its emerging relationship with the US and cherishes […]
Added on September 6, 2020
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Jammu: A man was arrested for allegedly plotting the murder of his wife to get married for the second time in Rajouri, police said on Saturday. Shanaz Akhtar was stabbed to death inside her house at village Mohra in the border district on August 30 and the roles of her husband Zulifkar Ali and his […]
Added on September 6, 2020
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Banihal/Jammu: Three people were killed and two others injured on Saturday when two Kashmir-bound load carriers skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge along Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district, police said. A mini load carrier, carrying poultry birds to Kashmir, rolled down into about 400-feet gorge near Digdole, at 4.40 am, killing […]
Added on September 6, 2020
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New Delhi: The first ever cannabis medicine project will soon be set up in Jammu with Canadian collaboration, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday. The Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office said it is the first major foreign investment in Jammu and Kashmir after it became a Union Territory (UT). The first ever […]
Added on September 5, 2020
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‘Vaccine induces antibody response in small trials’
Moscow: Russia’s ‘Sputnik V’ COVID-19 vaccine, approved in the country last month, produced antibody response in all participants with no serious adverse events in small human trials, according to the first peer-reviewed results of the preventive published in The Lancet journal on Friday. Results from early-phase non-randomised vaccine trials in a total of 76 people […]
Added on September 5, 2020
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Army Major, two cops sustain injuries
Srinagar: Three unidentified militants were killed and as many security personnel, including an Army officer, injured in an encounter in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation at Yedipora in the Pattan area of Baramulla district in north Kashmir following specific information about the presence of […]
