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New Delhi: India’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed that of China after it reported a total of 4,706 fatalities, while it overtook Turkey to become the ninth worst-hit nation by the pandemic with 1,65,799 COVID-19 cases. The country has registered 175 deaths and a record 7,466 fresh coronavirus infection cases in the last 24 hrs […]
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New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and informed him about the views of all chief ministers on the extension of the ongoing nationwide lockdown beyond May 31, officials said. During the meeting, Shah briefed Modi about the suggestions and the feedback he received from the chief ministers […]
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Jammu: Four persons were booked for violation of quarantine rules in Samba district on Thursday night, police officials said. All the four persons were checked at Lakhanpur corridor on May 26 by concerned authorities and were asked to report at the administrative quarantine centre in Thandi Khui, Vijaypur, they said. All of them violated the […]
Added on May 29, 2020
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United Nations: With President Donald Trump tweeting that the US is ready to “arbitrate” between India and China to end their raging border dispute, a UN spokesperson said it is not for the Secretary General to opine who should mediate in the situation but urged that all parties involved should avoid any action that would […]
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‘We are engaged with China to resolve border row’: India
New Delhi: India said it was engaged with China to resolve the border issue, in a carefully crafted reaction seen as virtual rejection of US President Donald Trump’s offer to arbitrate between the two Asian giants in resolving their decades-old boundary dispute. “We are engaged with the Chinese side to peacefully resolve it,” External Affairs […]
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Lt Governor administers oath of office
Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu on Thursday administered the oath to retired bureaucrat B R Sharma as Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) at Raj Bhavan here, an official spokesman said. A 1984-batch IAS (retired) officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre, Sharma had served as the chief secretary of the […]
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New Delhi: Nearly 23 lakh people, who have moved within the country or arrived from international destinations during the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are currently in quarantine facilities arranged by states and union territories. While majority of the state governments and union territory administrations have made at least seven days’ quarantine […]
Added on May 29, 2020
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Islamabad: Pakistan has criticised India for starting the construction of the Ram temple at the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, saying it shows how the Muslims in the country are being marginalised. India’s Supreme Court, in its verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title case on November 9 last year, said the entire 2.77 […]
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Say militants had fitted 45kgs explosives in a private car
Srinagar: Security forces on Thursday averted a major tragedy as they foiled a bid to set up a car-borne IED, containing about 45 kgs of explosives, in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said. Inspector-General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the militants of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) were working together to target […]
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Washington: The death toll from the novel coronavirus in the US has crossed one lakh, the highest for any country in the world, as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc across the globe by upending life and disrupting economic activity. The wave of deaths, one-third of which has come from the world’s financial capital of New […]
