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JK Cong chief asks partymen to gear up for panchayat polls

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress president G A Mir today asked party cadres to get ready to take on the PDP-BJP government in the state and expose their failures and misdeeds, and prepare for the panchayat polls. The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to hold the much-awaited panchayat elections from mid-February. “Although the […]

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Army kills 138 Pak soldiers in 2017 in tactical ops

New Delhi: The Indian Army killed 138 Pakistan Army personnel in 2017 in tactical operations and retaliatory cross-border firings along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, government intelligence sources said today. The Indian Army lost 28 soldiers during the same period along the LoC, the sources said. The sources said the Pakistan […]

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US revokes citizenship of Indian native; faces deportation

Washington: The US has revoked the American citizenship of an Indian-origin man who reportedly defrauded the authorities, making it the first denaturalisation case under a government initiative designed to clamp down on fraudulent immigration, the Justice Department said. Baljinder Singh alias Davinder Singh, 43, who married a US citizen, has now been reverted to the […]

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Srinagar shivers under season’s lowest temperature

Srinagar: Fringes of the famous Dal Lake and other water bodies in Srinagar – the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir – have frozen this morning as the mercury continued its free fall and the city clocked the season’s lowest night temperature. Srinagar recorded its coldest night this winter as the minimum temperature settled at […]

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JRL calls for shutdown on January 13

Srinagar: Terming the killing of a civilian in Kulgam as “genocide” of Kashmiris, the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for complete shutdown across for Kashmir on Saturday (January 13). “Killing of youth is done under a well planned strategy. Probes ordered into these killings is nothing but a mere eyewash,” said the JRL comprising […]

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Protest against power outage, water shortage in Watergam

Rafiabad: The residents from Watergam and its adjoining villages on Wednesday held a protest demonstration and also blocked Baramulla-Handwara National Highway road to mark their protest against PDD and PHE department. Raising slogans against the PDD and PHE, the protesters alleged that despite repeated requests and reminders, the concerned departments have failed to ensure water […]

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1,749 people died in 10,160 accidents in J&K in 2016, 17: CM

  Jammu: A total of 1,749 persons lost their lives in around 10,000 road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir in past two years, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti informed the state assembly today. In a written reply to a question by NC MLA Mubarak Gul, she said 958 persons were killed in 5,501 number of accidents […]

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547 people committed suicide in J&K in 2016, 2017: Mehbooba

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Kargil shivers at minus 23.6 as severe cold grips JK

Srinagar: Intense cold tightened its noose over the state as night temperatures dipped further in the Valley as Kargil in Ladakh region recorded night temperature at minus 23.6, coldest night of the season so far, the Met said. The night’s temperature was minus 17.4 degrees Celsius in Leh. Pertinently, Pahalgam recorded minus 7.5 and Gulmarg […]

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Oppn stages walkout, demand statement from CM over civilian killings

Jammu: The opposition parties led by former chief minister Omar Abdullah in the state Assembly staged a walkout after they found chief minister Mehbooba Mufti was not present in the Assembly. The opposition demanded that the Chief Minister should have appeared in the LA in the morning and expressed sympathy over the recent civilian killings […]