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Chinese air force sending fighter jets to Thailand for joint exercises

Chinese air force sending fighter jets to Thailand for joint exercises

The Chinese air force is sending fighter jets and bombers to Thailand for a joint exercise with the Thai military on Sunday. “The training will include air support, strikes on ground targets and small and large-scale troop deployment,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said in a statement posted on its website. China’s expanding military activities in […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Creating awareness

Creating awareness

In order to make the small industrial units to survive, the central government along with the J & K administration are trying to help such units. In this direction J&K government is creating awareness and providing handholding amongst the bat makers with regard to GI tagging through field officers. The Directorate of Industries and Commerce […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Dr Samoon inaugurates Electrical & Solar Training Center at ITI Bagh-i-Dilawar Khan

Dr Samoon inaugurates Electrical & Solar Training Center at ITI Bagh-i-Dilawar Khan

Says SDD committed to handhold trainees to gain skills for entrepreneurship, business acumen SRINAGAR, AUGUST 12: Principal Secretary, Skill Development Department (SDD), Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon today inaugurated Electrical & Solar Training Center at Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Bagh-i-Dilawar Khan here. Principal ITI informed the Principal Secretary that the training content for solar energy training […]

 Crescent Kashmir

JK reports 586 fresh positive cases, 463086 recovered

JK reports 586 fresh positive cases, 463086 recovered

SRINAGAR, AUGUST 12: The Government today informed that 586 fresh  positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19) have been reported today; 47 from Jammu division and 539 from Kashmir division, thus taking the total number of positive cases to 472597. Moreover, 745 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from various hospitals including 122 […]

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Govt asks doctors to refrain from private practice during duty hours

Govt asks doctors to refrain from private practice during duty hours

  Says any violation will be dealt with strictly; Seeks monthly report from all HoDs Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Government on Friday directed doctors to refrain from doing private practice during duty hours and other malpractices as this is in violation of the Civil Service Conduct Rules. According to an order, a copy of which […]

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Cop Shot At, Injured in Bijbhera Anantnag, shifted to hospital

Cop Shot At, Injured in Bijbhera Anantnag, shifted to hospital

  Srinagar, August 12: Suspected militants on Friday shot at and injured a Special Police Officer (SPO) at Kurkadal in Bijbhera area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said. A top Police officer told GNS that militants fired upon a SPO namely Ghulam Qadir inside Dara Shikoh Park KurKadal Bijbehra this afternoon. He was immediately […]

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Not about being PM, only Opposition unity in mind, says Nitish Kumar

Not about being PM, only Opposition unity in mind, says Nitish Kumar

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar iterated on Friday that Opposition unity and not prime ministerial ambitions were on his mind now, his remarks to the media in Delhi coming days after he created a political storm by walking out of the JD(U)’s alliance with the BJP in Bihar. Asked whether he was eyeing to be the Opposition’s […]

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Players prioritising T20 leagues hardly a Boult from the blue

Players prioritising T20 leagues hardly a Boult from the blue

NEW DELHI: Trent Boult giving up his New Zealand Cricket contract is another sign of a revolution sweeping through the game — a change happening not at the leisurely pace of a Test match but at the breakneck speed of a Twenty20 innings. A key figure in the teams that won the inaugural World Test […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Kupwara: Flash floods cause widespread damage to agricultural fields in Lolab

Kupwara: Flash floods cause widespread damage to agricultural fields in Lolab

Kupwara: Several villages in Lolab and those in its proximity witnessed huge losses to agricultural fields, especially to paddy, in the aftermath of flash floods caused due to overnight rainfall in this north Kashmir district. Reports said that several rivulets overflowed causing the water to enter agricultural fields and residential areas in Chandigam and Lalpora […]

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Arctic warming four times faster than rest of Earth, study warns

Arctic warming four times faster than rest of Earth, study warns

PARIS: The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet over the last 40 years, according to research published on Thursday that suggests climate models are underestimating the rate of polar heating. The United Nations’ climate science panel said in a special report in 2019 that the Arctic was warming […]