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Cricket Parvez Rasool calls for 2-year ban on players who fudge age

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s most recognisable cricketer, Parvez Rasool Tuesday called for a two-year ban on any player who fudges his date of birth. “It is my opinion that those who have produced fake documents with regard to their age, should be punished and banned for two years. Even those who have retired from playing […]

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Authorities initiate special drive in Jammu against unauthorised hoardings

Authorities initiate special drive in Jammu against unauthorised hoardings

Jammu: A special drive was undertaken on Tuesday by the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) to remove unauthorised hoardings and structures erected to display advertisements in the city. A team of officials dismantled dozen of such unauthorised hoardings and structures erected at different spots in Panjthirthi, Gandhi Nagar, Trikuta Nagar, B C Road, Tope Sherkhania, Narwal, […]

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‘Tackling terror’: Anti terror body NIA gets more teeth

‘Tackling terror’: Anti terror body NIA gets more teeth

NEW DELHI: Seeking to give more teeth to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to allow it to probe terrorist acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad. The amendments will also allow the NIA to probe cybercrimes and cases of human trafficking. The NIA was set up in 2009 […]

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Govt will never misuse NIA law: Amit Shah

Govt will never misuse NIA law: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: Refuting opposition’s claims of “misuse” of the NIA law, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted that the Modi government will never abuse it to target anyone but will ensure that terrorism is finished off irrespective of the religion of the accused. In an intervention during a discussion in Lok Sabha on the […]

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Police seeks adjournment of Kathua trial

Police seeks adjournment of Kathua trial

Says accused being a major or minor still undecided

Says accused being a major or minor still undecided

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Cloud burst kills 23 in PaK village

Islamabad: At least 23 people were killed and several others are missing after a cloudburst caused flash flood in the Neelum Valley of the Pakistan administered Kashmir, officials said. A large number of homes in the Laswa area of the Valley were damaged and dozens of people were swept away in the flooding caused by […]

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Pakistani ‘intruder’ shot dead by BSF personnel

Jammu: A suspected Pakistani intruder was shot dead by BSF personnel while he was trying to cross the International Border in Samba district on Monday, officials said. The incident took place around 3 am when a man in his 60’s was trying to sneak into the Indian territory near the S M Pura border post, […]

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Two Amarnath pilgrims die, toll in this year’s Yatra reaches 16

Srinagar: Two Amarnath pilgrims died in the past 24 hours en route to the holy 3,880 metre-high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, taking the death toll in this year’s pilgrimage to 16, official sources said Monday. A woman pilgrim from Rajasthan died at the Baltal base camp due to a cardiac arrest, while a […]

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5,210 pilgrims leave Jammu for Amarnath cave

Jammu: Amid tight security, 14th batch of 5,210 Amarnath pilgrims left a base camp here on Monday for the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine in south Kashmir. As many as 8,734 pilgrims paid obeisance to Lord Shiva in the shape of Ice Lingum at the Amarnath cave shrine till Sunday night, thereby taking the total to 1,82,712 […]

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Babri Masjid case: Special Judge seeks 6 more months from SC to conclude trial

Babri Masjid case: Special Judge seeks 6 more months from SC to conclude trial

New Delhi: A special judge holding daily trial in the politically sensitive 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case, involving BJP veterans L K Advani, M M Joshi, Uma Bharti and others, moved the Supreme Court Monday seeking six more months to conclude the matter. The judge, at Lucknow, has informed the top court in a May […]