Added on May 30, 2019
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New Delhi: Security arrangements for the forthcoming annual Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir have been scaled up, with authorities deciding to issue a ‘barcode’-enabled authority slip to pilgrims to keep a track of the actual number of people travelling to and from the cave shrine. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), that is tasked […]
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Promises 30 percent subsidy on capital investment, other sops
SRINAGAR: The State Government on Wednesday announced the Healthcare Investment Policy-2019. This follows the State Administrative Council decision taken in this regard on March 08, 2019. As per the new Health Care Investment Policy, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir will promote and encourage the private parties and entrepreneurs for setting up healthcare infrastructure in […]
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Srinagar: Government forces on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a man who was missing from May 25 during a cordon-and-search operation at Chopan Mohalla at Nagpathri area of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The forces also claimed to have recovered a weapon from his possession. A police official said that a joint team of […]
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Poonch: Seven passengers were injured after a vehicle in which they were travelling in met with an accident in Poonch district on Wednesday afternoon. Reports said that the passenger van bearing registration number JK-02AW 8018 skidded off the road near lower Kotia while on way to upper Kotia in the district. The vehicle after turning […]
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Srinagar: Suspected militants have shot at a civilian in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said on Wednesday. Feroz Ahmad sustained gunshot injuries during the incident at Bomai in Sopore on Tuesday night. He is undergoing treatment at a hospital, an officer said. A case has been registered and an investigation is on, the officer added. […]
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Chandigarh: For two years, Abdul Aziz, a 53-year-old carpenter from Kashmir, had been on dialysis and was looking for a kidney donor till he found a match hundreds of miles away in Bihar — a Hindu couple who agreed for a ‘swap transplant’. The families of Manjula Devi (42), a housewife from Patna in Bihar, […]
Added on May 30, 2019
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Srinagar: A Kashmiri youth, who allegedly joined the ISIS, has been arrested by the US allied forces in Syria and his parents have approached state authorities for intervening and bringing him back, officials said here on Wednesday. The youth identified as Adil Ahmad is believed to have joined the banned terror group in 2013, officials […]
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Srinagar: An army officer died Tuesday after complaining of severe chest pain during patrolling along the Line of Control in Macchil sector in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. “Maj Rahul Singh of Rashtriya Rifles, deployed along Line of Control, succumbed to the acute chest pain while undergoing medical treatment,” an army official said. The […]
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Jammu: The BJP Wednesday took a dig at the National Conference, saying it did not filed candidates in Jammu and Ladakh regions fearing a rout at the hands of the saffron party. J&K BJP spokesperson Brig Anil Gupta (retd) told reporters here that the NC got just seven per cent vote in the Lok Sabha […]
Added on May 30, 2019
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Jammu: Two minor brothers drowned in the Tawi river Wednesday while taking a bath in Jammu city which recorded the season’s highest day temperature of 42.8 degrees Celsius, 3.7 notches above normal, officials said. Mohammad Tariq, 11, and his younger brother Mohammad Mudasir, 7, were taking a bath in the river but they accidently drowned […]
