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STATE TIMES NEWS New Delhi: Immigration authorities at the airport here stopped yet another Kashmiri journalist from travelling abroad, citing restrictions imposed by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, officials said on Wednesday.Akash…
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NEW DELHI: A judicial officer was Wednesday appointed as an additional judge in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, the Law Ministry said. A notification issued by the Department of Justice in the law ministry said Rajesh Sekhri has been…
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NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill which seeks to provide a statutory framework for the functioning of the National Anti-Doping Agency and the National Dope Testing Laboratory. The National Anti-Doping Bill was passed by a…
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NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday approved a Rs 1.64 lakh crore revival package for BSNL, comprising of converting dues into equity, financial support and allocation of spectrum in a bid to turn around the loss-making telecom PSU. …
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NEW DELHI: Two persons associated with media organisations were detained under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir this year, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said on Wednesday. Rai was replying to a question in…
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NEW DELHI: Altogether 6,514 Kashmiri Pandits are still residing in Kashmir valley -- highest 2,639 in Kulgam district, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said on Wednesday. Rai said in Rajya Sabha that no Kashmiri Pandit has…
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NEW DELHI: A total of 3,48,279 persons injured in 3,66,138 road accidents across the country during the calendar year 2020, causing 1,31,714 deaths, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister…
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JAIPUR: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Wednesday said the Congress government in Rajasthan was being "run by the mafia" but its countdown has started as people "want to get rid of this dispensation". Accusing the Ashok…
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Jaipur; Five packets containing 4.7 kg of narcotics were recovered near the India-Pakistan border in Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan, Border Security Force sources said on Wednesday. The border is nearly 200 metres from the spot in…
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New Delhi: India has lost 1,059 tigers since 2012 with Madhya Pradesh, which is known as the 'tiger state' of the country, recording the highest number of deaths of striped felines. According to the National Tiger Conservation Authority…
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