Crescent Kashmir

Case Against Facebook Page For Circulating Fake News In J&K’s Udhampur

Case Against Facebook Page For Circulating Fake News In J&K’s Udhampur

Jammu:  A First Information Report was registered against a Facebook page for allegedly circulating a fake news about an encounter between police and terrorists in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, a senior police officer said. Police assisted by security forces conducted a search operation in Udhampur town on Saturday following information about […]

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Over 300 Stranded Students Reach Jammu And Kashmir From Kota Amid Lockdown

Over 300 Stranded Students Reach Jammu And Kashmir From Kota Amid Lockdown

A group of 369 students from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, reached Kathua on Monday from Kota in Rajasthan onboard 15 Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation buses, officials said. Soon after their arrival, they were screened for COVID-19 and later allowed to proceed to their home districts in the two […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Mint Covid Tracker: Despite slowing trajectory, India’s case count could reach 50,000 in eight days

Mint Covid Tracker: Despite slowing trajectory, India’s case count could reach 50,000 in eight days

The number of reported coronavirus cases in India rose 15 percent over the past two days to 26,917, data from the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) published last evening showed. This is the same rate of increase as in the previous 48 hours, when the reported case count rose 15 percent to 20,471. […]

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Balakot, Article 370 move changed geopolitics of region: Pakistan Army chief in ‘Green Book’

Balakot, Article 370 move changed geopolitics of region: Pakistan Army chief in ‘Green Book’

New Delhi: The Balakot airstrike and the scrapping of Articles 370 and 35A by the Narendra Modi government are two significant events that will have a lasting imprint on the geopolitics of this region, Pakistan Army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has said in the “Green Book” of his force. The Green Book 2020, the latest […]

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Over 54,000 Covid-19 deaths in hardest-hit US, number of cases near a million

Over 54,000 Covid-19 deaths in hardest-hit US, number of cases near a million

The United States recorded 1,330 more Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, according to figures reported late on Sunday by the Johns Hopkins University. The country now has an overall death toll of 54,841, with 9,64,937 confirmed infections, according to a tally by the Baltimore-based institution at 8:30 pm on Sunday. The United […]

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9 CMs to speak with PM Modi during meeting over lockdown, exit strategy

9 CMs to speak with PM Modi during meeting over lockdown, exit strategy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting with several chief ministers on Monday morning and nine of them will speak to him on issues from another extension of the lockdown to an exit plan and how it should be implemented. Chief ministers of all states are expected to be present at the meeting through video conferencing, […]

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Over 50 infected: Three Kanpur madrasas emerge as new hotspots

Over 50 infected: Three Kanpur madrasas emerge as new hotspots

In Kanpur city, which has emerged as a coronavirus hotspot district in UP, close to one-third of the total 170 cases is concentrated in three madrasas where over 53 students mostly between 10 and 20 years have tested positive. According to the district health and administrative officials, the madrasa students were most likely infected by the members […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Asthal Kulgam encounter: Only one body recovered so far, searches underway, says police

Asthal Kulgam encounter: Only one body recovered so far, searches underway, says police

Only body has been recovered from the last night’s gunfight site in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district so far, even are searches are still going on, police said on Monday. A police spokesman had last night said four militants were killed in the gunfight in Asthal area of the district. “Only 01 dead body recovered so […]

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Three militants killed in Lower Munda gunfight, searches on

Three militants killed in Lower Munda gunfight, searches on

Srinagar:Three militants were killed in a gunfight  which broke between goverment forces and militants in Lower Munda Area of Qazigund in South Kashmir’s Kulgam District on Monday morning. Official sources told that three militants were killed in a gunfight. However identity of the slain militant is yet to be ascertained. Till this report was being […]

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Kulgam gunfight: Two more militants killed, army officer injured

Kulgam gunfight: Two more militants killed, army officer injured

Srinagar: Two more militants were killed in a brief shootout in Guddar area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday evening. Police sources told that militants this evening attacked patrolling party of 9 RR in Asthal village of Kulgam. Government forces retaliated resulting in the encounter. Total four militants were killed in the exchange of fire. […]