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JEE-Main, NEET To Be Held As Per Schedule In September: Officials

JEE-Main, NEET To Be Held As Per Schedule In September: Officials

The Joint Entrance Examination (Main) and the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) will be conducted in September as scheduled, officials in the Ministry of Education said on Friday. While NEET is scheduled on September 13, JEE-Mains will be held from September 1-6. In a statement, the ministry’s National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts these […]

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Turkey’s Erdogan converts another former church into mosque

Turkey’s Erdogan converts another former church into mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church, that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum, to be turned back into a mosque. The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial conversion for the Unesco World Heritage-recognised Hagia Sophia. Both changes […]

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PCB mulling to hold remaining PSL ties in October

PCB mulling to hold remaining PSL ties in October

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has a tentative plan to hold the remaining four matches of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) soon after the end of the proposed Zimbabwe tour to the country in October. It is learnt that as the broadcasters’ staff will also be in Pakistan, covering the white-ball internationals against Zimbabwe […]

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Jammu-Srinagar National Highway reopens after two-day closure

Jammu-Srinagar National Highway reopens after two-day closure

Banihal/Jammu: The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway reopened on Saturday after remaining closed for the past two days owing to multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains, officials said. The highway got blocked at over a dozen places between Udhampur and Banihal on Thursday, leaving thousands of vehicles stranded. “The highway was cleared for one-way traffic around 10 […]

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Pharmacist, eight others die of COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, toll reaches 612

Pharmacist, eight others die of COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, toll reaches 612

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported nine more covid-19 related deaths since overnight, taking the fatality count to 612 in J-K. Among those who succumbed to the virus include five from Kashmir Valley including a 56-year-old pharmacist and four others from Jammu division. Reports said that a 60-year-old woman from Kishtwar, a 70-year-old man Marh in […]

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Gupkar declaration signatories issue joint statement: ‘will strive for restoration of Article 370, 35 A’

Gupkar declaration signatories issue joint statement: ‘will strive for restoration of Article 370, 35 A’

While calling the abrogation of Article 370 as an unconstitutional move, the signatories of Gupkar declaration, which include, among others, Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, G A Mir, Yousuf Tarigami, Muzaffar Shah and Sajad Lone, on Saturday issued a joint statement, said they will strive for the restoration of Articles 370 and 35A, the Constitution of […]

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One militant killed in ongoing gunfight in Baramulla’s Kreeri

One militant killed in ongoing gunfight in Baramulla’s Kreeri

One militant has been killed in ongoing gunfight between militants and the government forces in Saloosa area of Kreeri of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday. Unnamed official sources told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS) that, one militant has been killed in the ongoing operation, however his identity couldn’t be ascertained yet. […]

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45-yr-old driver injured in Uri road accident

45-yr-old driver injured in Uri road accident

A driver has been injured in a road accident in this border town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district this morning. A Mahindra camper van bearing registration number JKOIM-6349 was on way to Uri from Baramulla when it skidded off the road near Rajarwani, Uri and fell on the banks of River Jhelum, reported a local […]

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Nodal Officer COVID-19 UTs of J&K, Ladakh visits Budgam; reviews virus containment measures

Nodal Officer COVID-19 UTs of J&K, Ladakh visits Budgam; reviews virus containment measures

Inspects quarantine and Covid care centers, assesses facilities Says measures afoot to establish more testing centers in the districts BUDGAM, AUGUST 21:  Development Commissioner Handicraft, Union Ministry of Textiles and Nodal Officer Covid-19 for UTs of J&K and Ladakh, Shantmanu, accompanied by a team of senior doctors representing Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare […]

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MP’s Shamsher Singh Manhas & Jugal Kishore Sharma meet Lt Governor

MP’s Shamsher Singh Manhas & Jugal Kishore Sharma meet Lt Governor

JAMMU, AUGUST 21: Members of Parliament-Sh. Shamsher Singh Manhas & Sh. Jugal Kishore Sharma today met the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha here at the Raj Bhavan. The MP’s discussed with the Lt Governor about various developmental issues of the UT and other issues of public importance. They also shared their views on the present development […]