Rumita Patel
SRINAGAR: Security has been tightened in Srinagar and other locations in Kashmir ahead of Republic Day on Tuesday, as forces have been deployed in massive numbers around Jan. 26 performance locations across the valley, authorities said Sunday. Random vehicle checks and passenger searches were taking place in several places, they said. The presence of security…
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NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has written to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to consider aviation employees as front-line workers against coronavirus and prioritize their Covid-19 vaccination. The letter addressed to the Ministry of Health said: “Considering that frontline airline and airport workers are also involved in the movement…
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SRINAGAR: In the midst of an intense debate over the privacy offered by messaging platforms like WhatsApp, terrorist groups and their handlers in Pakistan are switching to new applications including one developed by a Turkish company, officials said. The three new requests came to light after evidence was collected after encounters with terrorists or with…
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NEW YORK: More than 1,000 large dams in India will be roughly 50 years old by 2025, and those aging structures around the world pose a growing threat, according to a UN report noting that by 2050, the majority of people on Earth will be living downstream of dozens. of thousands of dams built in…
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SHOPIAN: The army captain involved in the fake encounter in the Shopian district of Kashmir last July and two other accused civilians did not provide any information on the source of the weapons placed on the three murdered youths and also tried to destroy the evidence , a police charge said the sheet. Captain Bhoopendra…
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NEW DELHI: It took India just 6 days to administer one million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, a count that is higher than that of countries like the US and the UK, the Union Ministry of Health said on Sunday , as the number of beneficiaries who have received the anti-coronavirus injections approached 16 lakh. The…
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NEW DELHI: The central government has undertaken many initiatives that focus on empowering girls, including access to education, better health care and improving gender sensitivity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on National Day of Girls on Sunday. India celebrates National Girl’s Day, an initiative of the women’s and children’s development ministry, every year on January…
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NEW DELHI: The number of Covid-19 cases from India has risen to 1,06,54,533 with 14,849 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in one day, while the number of recoveries increased to 1,03,16,786 , according to the Ministry of Health. The death toll due to the viral disease has risen to 1.53,339 with 155 more deaths,…
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BHUBANESHWAR / KONARK: Confined to her home for most of the pandemic since March last year, when Savitri Rout, 70, finally had the chance to go on a weekend getaway with her children and grandchildren in January, the family chose an ‘eco retreat’ along the Chandrabhaga beach in Konark. Sitting with her granddaughter in the…
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CALCUTTA: Germany-based Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita B Pfaff chose her 125th birth anniversary on Saturday to paint the person behind the legend as “a devout Hindu,” though “tolerant of all others. religions “. “He inspired his followers, members of the Indian National Army, his friends and his family, to respect other religions and…
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