Rumita Patel
JAMMU: A soldier was killed on Thursday when Pakistan resorted to heavy cross-border bombardment during the ongoing ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Havildar Nirmal Singh of the Jammu & Kashmir Rifles infantry regiment was seriously wounded in the gunfire and later succumbed to his…
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NEW DELHI: In response to reports that Prime Minister Modi is likely to receive the Covid vaccine in the next round of inoculation, official sources said those over 50, including many politicians, it would be automatically covered in the second phase. They noted that the Prime Minister had recently told top ministers in a meeting…
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LUCK: In a unique project that involves the use of cutting-edge technology in police surveillance and crime prevention, special cameras enabled for Artificial Intelligence (AI), capable of reading facial expressions, will be installed in 200 crime hotspots in the city. state capital and will sound alerts to the police control room when they notice signs…
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KOLKATA: Only a widow is entitled to her dead husband’s sperm, the Calcutta high court ruled, rejecting an appeal by a father to give him the sperm of his only son, which is kept in a Delhi sperm bank. The father had moved to the superior court in March 2020 saying that his daughter-in-law not…
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TRICHY: The bodies of four Tamil Nadu fishermen reported missing since they came out to sea from the Kottaipatinam jetty in the Pudukottai district last Monday were washed ashore on a Sri Lankan beach on Thursday, the Indian high commission reported in Colombo. Another group of fishermen who had set sail alongside the boat carrying…
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MUMBAI: Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray will visit the Manjari facilities of the Serum Institute of India (SII) on Friday, where a fire killed five people. Deputy Prime Minister Ajit Pawar told reporters: “The contractor’s men were working on that floor (where the fire occurred) and when the fire brigade officers went there, they found…
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NEW DELHI: A possible contest between West Bengal’s Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) Supreme Mamata Banerjee and her former confidant turned rival Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigarm has put constituency people in serious trouble dilemma. It has become difficult for voters to choose between the two popular leaders in the upcoming state elections. Suvendu Adhikari…
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NEW DELHI: There is a possibility that all passenger trains will be fully resumed by the end of March, Ministry of Railways officials said Thursday, even as the railroads are in talks with states in the National Capital Region (NCR ) to resume normal operation of local trains. “We are hopeful to resume operation of…
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HYDERABAD: The Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, (IIT-H) said that the fifth meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) of the India-Japan Joint Research Program was held virtually on Thursday to deliberate on solving some of the urgent traffic problems by taking advantage of emerging technologies. The joint research program aims to build a system…
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ROHTAK: Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said Thursday that government it must accept the demands of the agitating farmers in the next round of talks. He said farmers have already spent nearly two months on the roads while protesting against farm laws. The opposition leader in the state assembly also said that farmers…
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