Added on August 31, 2020
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New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the second time in a month, asking what steps were being taken on repeated allegations about the global social media giant’s India unit being biased towards the ruling BJP. At a press conference, the opposition party also demanded an investigation by a […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Srinagar: Three Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants and an Army soldier were killed on Saturday in a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. A search operation was launched by security forces on a specific input regarding the presence of militants in Zadoora village in south Kashmir, a police spokesman said. He said during the […]
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Authorizes Farooq to widen acceptance of ‘Gupkar declaration’
Srinagar: The measures undertaken by the Centre on August 5 last year have violated the spirit of federalism and the sovereign pledges of the Union of India to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, said the political affairs committee (PAC) of the National Conference on Saturday. Presided by NC president and Srinagar MP Farooq Abdullah, […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Fatality rate drops to 1.81 percent
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 recoveries have crossed 26 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent, which the Centre said has been made possible due to the strategic policy of “testing aggressively, tracking comprehensively and treating efficiently” in supervised home-isolation, facility-isolation and hospitals. The case fatality rate (CFR) has also been low when compared […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally raced past 34 lakh with a single-day spike of 76,472 cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 26,48,998, pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. The total number of COVID-19 cases rose to 34,63,972, while the death toll due to […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Says influence of dictatoship on country's democracy rising
Raipur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday alleged that anti-national and anti-poor forces were spreading hatred and venom of violence in India and the influence of ‘tanashahi’ (dictatorship) on the country’s ‘lokshahi’ (democracy) was rising. She also said that the founding fathers of the country would have never imagined that the Constitution and democracy will […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Dubai: The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued Saturday a decree formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a US-brokered deal to normalise relations between the two countries. The deal opening up relations between Israel and the UAE was announced on August 13. It required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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New Delhi/Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) has detected a tunnel just beneath the India-Pakistan international border fence in Jammu, officials said on Saturday. The force has launched a major search operation in the area to look for other such hidden structures that aid infiltration even as it is analysing the spotted structure, they said. […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Islamabad: Pakistan is all set to reopen educational institutions from mid-September after a six-month hiatus with the steady improvement in the COVID-19 situation in the country, which recorded just one death due to the disease in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. Education institutions are closed from March 16 due to the coronavirus. […]
Added on August 30, 2020
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Banihal/Jammu: The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was cleared for stranded vehicles on Saturday after remaining closed for the past four days due to multiple landslides triggered by incessant rains at a dozen places in Ramban district, officials said. The highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for […]
