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Srinagar: In a setback, two senior army officers, including a colonel-rank officer, were among five security personnel killed during an encounter with militants at a village in Rajwar forests of North Kashmir, officials said Sunday. The deceased security personnel are: Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, Major Anuj Sood, Naik Rajesh and Lance Naik Dinesh, all from the […]
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New Delhi: The post-COVID19 world order will be “markedly different” and it will be in Pakistan’s own interest to change its actions like supporting terrorism, BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav said on Sunday, asserting that India knows how to handle such countries. In an exclusive interview to PTI, he also said that there will be […]
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Srinagar: Seven children were injured when an unexploded substance went off in Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Sunday, police said. “Around 2 pm an unexploded substance (probably a shell) went off at Ahgam Zachaldara in Handwara area of the north Kashmir district when some children were playing there,” a police officer said. The injured […]
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Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has chalked out a plan for the phase-wise return of the residents of the union territory including students and migrant labourers stranded in different parts of the country due to the COVID-19 lockdown, an official said on Sunday. The administration, however, said all the returnees will be tested for […]
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Says permission given to migrant workers, stranded tourists, pilgrims, students only
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Sunday made it clear that the relaxations given for the inter-state movement of people during the lockdown was available only to distressed migrant workers, stranded tourists, pilgrims and students only. In a communication to all States and Union Territories, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said the home ministry […]
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Srinagar: Students in Kashmir are keeping up with their academics by taking to the online mode of education amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, even as the clamour for the restoration of high-speed internet services has grown in view of the difficulties faced by them to access the study material. In Kashmir, school education has been affected […]
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Islamabad: Pakistan’s coronavirus tally crossed 19,000 on Sunday after 989 new patients were diagnosed in the last 24 hours. The Ministry of National Health Services said 23 patients died in this period, taking the total toll to 440. So far, 4,817 people have recovered from the deadly virus, the ministry said. Out of the total […]
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Abu Dhabi: More than 1.57 lakh people have e registered in the last three days on the website launched by the Indian Mission in United Arab Emirates to fly back home amidst the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, diplomatic sources indicated. The portal which was launched on 29th of April, is open and people are […]
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Dubai: Three more Indians based in the UAE have either been fired or suspended from their jobs for “Islamophobic” posts on social media, days after the Indian ambassador to the Gulf nation warned the expatriates against posting such provocative updates online, a media report has said. Chef Rawat Rohit, storekeeper Sachin Kinnigoli and a cash […]
Added on May 4, 2020
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Will allot entry gates, check-in bays to airlines
New Delhi: Commercial passenger flights at Delhi airport will initially operate from Terminal 3 after the lockdown ends, said a senior official of its operator DIAL on Sunday, adding that entry gates, self check-in machines and check-in bays will be allocated to airlines to avoid overcrowding by air travellers. The airport will keep all food, […]
