Added on January 1, 2022
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New Delhi: In a year bookended by the coronavirus pandemic, India displayed a firm resolve to expand its strategic influence in reshaping the regional power balance in the face of an increasingly complex geopolitical entanglement of confronting an aggressive China and dealing with the aftermath of the Taliban’s swift takeover of power in Kabul. Distrustful […]
Added on January 1, 2022
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Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one Arsalan Feroz, an operative of The Resistance Front (TRF) terror group, for allegedly being involved in radicalising and recruiting youngsters to join terror ranks, officials said on Friday. A spokesperson of the agency said searches were conducted in Kashmir on Thursday during which Feroz, a resident […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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Srinagar: Six Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, including two Pakistani nationals involved in the December 13 attack on a police bus on the outskirts of the city, were killed in twin encounters in south Kashmir that also left an Army jawan dead, officials said on Thursday. While three militants were killed in an overnight encounter in Anantnag, […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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Srinagar: For the first time since insurgency broke out in Kashmir, the total number of militants active in the valley has fallen below 200 and the recruitment of youngsters by various outfits has also been kept in check, top security officials said on Thursday. Addressing a press conference in the Qazigund area of Anantnag district […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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New Delhi: The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) will now have jurisdiction to entertain consumers complaints where the value of the goods or services exceeds Rs 2 crore as against the earlier limit of over Rs 10 crore, the government said on Thursday. The Centre has notified new rules to revise pecuniary jurisdiction for […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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Islamabad: India has provided a list of Afghan contractors and truck drivers to the Pakistan government who would transport the Indian consignment of 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan as humanitarian assistance, as the two neighbours inch closer towards finalising the agreement, a media report said on Thursday. Both countries have agreed to the […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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Srinagar: Cold wave conditions intensified across Kashmir as the minimum temperature at most places in the valley went down, even as the Meteorological Department has forecast further fall in the temperature over the next few days, officials said on Thursday. Barring Gulmarg, the famous skiing resort in north Kashmir, the minimum temperature at all other […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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Srinagar: The Special Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir Police filed its first charge sheet against nine people, including a Hurriyat leader, in a case related to “selling” of MBBS seats in Pakistan to Kashmiri students and using the money to support and fund militancy, officials said on Thursday. The case was registered by […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL), on Thursday announced that BBV152 (Covaxin), its whole-virion inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate, has proven to be safe, well-tolerated, and immunogenic in paediatric subjects in phase II/III study. Bharat Biotech had conducted phase II/III, open-label, and multicenter studies to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of Covaxin in healthy children […]
Added on December 31, 2021
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New Delhi: The durability of immunity post COVID-19 vaccination persists for nine months or more and a precautionary dose of vaccine which will be administered to healthcare and frontline workers and citizens above 60 years with comorbidities is to mitigate the severity of infection, hospitalisation and death, the government said on Thursday. ICMR Director General […]
