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Chief Justice Gita Mittal visited District Court Complex, Rajouri

Chief Justice Gita Mittal visited District Court Complex, Rajouri

RAJOURI, NOVEMBER, 08: Chief Justice High Court of J&K, Justice Ms. Gita Mittal, visited the District Court Complex Rajouri on Saturday 7th November. The Chief Justice reviewed the functioning of the District and Subordinate Courts and took stock of the infrastructural requirements of the Courts in the district. The District Principal and Sessions Judge, Rajouri […]

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Machil Encounter: 3 Militants, Officer Among 4 Soldiers Killed

Machil Encounter: 3 Militants, Officer Among 4 Soldiers Killed

SRINAGAR: One more militant was killed in a fierce gunfight near Line of Control in Machil area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Sunday, taking the death toll to seven.  Among those killed to include an army officer, two army soldiers and a BSF trooper besides three militants, two of whom were killed in the earlier […]

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Arnab Goswami shifted to Taloja jail for using mobile phone inside judicial custody

Arnab Goswami shifted to Taloja jail for using mobile phone inside judicial custody

Raigad police shifted Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV, to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai on Sunday morning for allegedly using a mobile phone while in judicial custody inside a make-shift quarantine centre for prisoners located in a municipal school in Alibaug. Goswami is one of the three accused in the abetment to suicide case […]

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3 army men, militant killed in Machil gunfight toll 6

3 army men, militant killed in Machil gunfight toll 6

An army officer and two other soldiers besides one more militant were killed in the ongoing gunfight along the Line of Control in Machil area of Kupwara district, official sources said on Sunday. The death toll has so far reached six in the fierce gun battle as a militant and a BSF trooper were killed […]

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Militant killed along LOC in North Kashmir : Army

Militant killed along LOC in North Kashmir : Army

Army on Sunday claimed to have killed one militant along the line of control LOC in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Srinagar based defense Spokesperson Rajesh Kalia in a statement issued to Kashmir News Service, said suspicious move of unidentified persons detected by own patrolling party near LC fence at Machil Sector on night 7/8 Nov […]

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PAGD to contest district council, panchayat polls

PAGD to contest district council, panchayat polls

Srinagar: In a major political development, People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), after hours of consultations, told media this evening that they will participate in the coming District Development Council polls and bypolls for panchayats in entire J&K so as not to give a “cake walk” to the BJP. PAGD spokesperson Sajad Gani Lone, accompanied […]

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Joe Biden beats Trump in election, becomes America’s 46th President

Joe Biden beats Trump in election, becomes America’s 46th President

Joe Biden has clinched enough states to win the 270 electoral votes needed to become president, The Associated Press declared on Saturday, a day after Decision Desk HQ also called the race for Biden. The Democratic candidates  victory was cemented after Pennsylvania was called for the two-term former vice president under Barack Obama. Various news […]

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COVID-19: Govt evacuates 8,15,865 stranded JK residents; 6,75,573 via Lakhanpur, 1, 40,292 through special trains

COVID-19: Govt evacuates 8,15,865 stranded JK residents; 6,75,573 via Lakhanpur, 1, 40,292 through special trains

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 07: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 8,15,865 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur  and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, […]

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Power Shutdown 

Power Shutdown 

SRINAGAR, November 07: According to the Power Controller, Kashmir Province, Srinagar, in order  to  carry  out shifting of  33kv line at Sanat Ghar Bemina, 33kv lines of Bemina-Karan Nagar, Bemina- Feteh Kadal and Bemina Barbar Shah shall observe shutdown on November 08 from 11am to 12:30am. The Receiving Stations to remain off include  Bemina 1st, […]

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CJ visits district court Pulwama Interacts with officers, Bar Members

CJ visits district court Pulwama Interacts with officers, Bar Members

PULWAMA, NOVEMBER 07:  Chief Justice,  Ms Gita Mittal has said that the witnesses are ears and eyes of the criminal justice system and called for adoption of the witness protection facilities in all the district courts across the J&K. This was stated by the Chief Justice while visiting the Vulnerable Witness Deposition Room and Child […]