Added on January 3, 2020
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Srinagar: Iltija Mufti, daughter of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, on Friday wrote a letter to the administration seeking permission to visit the grave of her maternal grandfather and former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in south Kashmir on his fourth death anniversary on January 7. Iltija, a Special Security Group protectee, has written to Additional Director […]
Added on January 3, 2020
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New Delhi: The Centre is examining the option of introducing mandatory requirement of 15-year residency in government jobs, ownership of land, seats in professional and college education in Jammu and Kashmir to allay apprehensions of locals, officials said on Friday. The move came after several organisations in Jammu and Kashmir expressed fears of outsiders grabbing jobs, […]
Added on January 3, 2020
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Washington: The US military killed General Qasem Soleimani, the powerful commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, in a drone strike in Iraq on Friday to protect American personnel abroad, dramatically escalating hostilities between the arch-rivals and spiking tensions in the already volatile Persian Gulf region. Gen Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite al-Quds force and architect of […]
Added on January 3, 2020
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Tehran: Iran warned of “severe revenge” and said arch-enemy the United States bore responsibility for the consequences after killing one of its top commanders, Qasem Soleimani, in a strike Friday outside Baghdad airport. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the commander of its Quds Force foreign operations arm had been killed by US forces in Baghdad, […]
Added on January 3, 2020
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Washington: General Qasem Soleimani should have been eliminated many years ago as the powerful commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards killed and wounded thousands of Americans and was plotting to kill many more, US president Donald Trump said on Friday. Gen Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite al-Quds force and architect of its regional security apparatus, […]
Added on January 2, 2020
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Jammu: Over 5,000 vehicles are stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar highway for the past two days due to landslides, officials said on Thursday. Landslides were reported from Karol in Chanderkot near Jaiswal bridge on Thursday and from Digdol on Wednesday, they said. Over 5,000 vehicles have been stranded at different places on the highway and no […]
Added on January 2, 2020
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Jammu: Seven people were killed and 24 injured, some of them critically, when a bus skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Thursday, police said. The bus was on its way from Surankote to Jammu when the accident happened at Siot-Lambari in Rajouri district, they […]
Added on January 2, 2020
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Srinagar: There was some respite from cold wave in Kashmir as the minimum temperatures increased slightly across the valley even as the Met department predicted rain and snowfall from Thursday onwards. The minimum temperature increased on Thursday across the Kashmir valley owing to a cloud cover, an official of the Meteorological department here said. He said […]
Added on January 2, 2020
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Srinagar: Iltija Mufti, daughter of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, on Thursday said she was detained by police at her residence here after she tried to visit the grave of her grandfather and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in south Kashmir. Iltija, a Special Security Group protectee, said she had sought permission to […]
Added on January 2, 2020
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Srinagar: A delegation of 22 trade and business organisations, led by the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), on Thursday called on Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu to apprise him about the socio-economic problems being faced by the people, especially the business community, in the Valley. The delegation submitted a detailed […]
