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NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the extension of a scheme under which cooperative NAFED will procure 12 lakh tonne apple in Jammu and Kashmir during the current 2020-21 season. National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) has also been allowed to use the government guarantee of Rs 2,500 crore ...

NEW DELHI: India has sustained its trend of maintaining the active cases below the 7.5 lakh mark for the second successive day on Wednesday, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. In the last 24 hours, the country has registered 61,775 recoveries whereas the new confirmed cases ...

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha advocated comprehensive measures on Wednesday to deal with radicalisation of youngsters in the Union Territory, saying terror elements from thousands of miles away are trying to infiltrate a large section of the society with the help of rabid propaganda. Addressing policemen ...

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today laid floral wreath at the Martyrs’ Memorial at Armed Police Complex, Zewan on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day-2020. The Commemoration Parade is observed every year across the country on October 21 as a mark of respect and remembrance of martyrs, who laid down ...

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the adoption of the Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act, 1989, a government spokesperson said. Briefing the press after a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the move will help establish all the three tiers ...

JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor K K Sharma today inaugurated two Skill development courses at ICICI Academy for Skills. The Courses have been launched in collaboration with Jammu Smart City Limited and Government Polytechnic for Women Shakti Nagar. Deputy Commissioner Jammu, (CEO Jammu Smart City Limited), Sushma Chauhan, Regional Head ICICI ...

JAMMU: Asserting that Jammu’s interest is sacrosanct and cannot be compromised, National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana on Tuesday reiterated that any attempt to trample this sacred trust of the people will be resisted tooth and nail. “Letting down Jammuites has cost the self-styled Messiahs the most with people sending ...

BEIJING: A Chinese soldier, who had strayed across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Demchok sector of Eastern Ladakh, has been handed over to the Chinese side by the Indian Army on Wednesday morning, said the Chinese-state media Global Times’ editor-in-Chief, Hu Xinjin. “The Indian side handed back the ...

POONCH: 168th Battalion of Border Security Force stationed along the Line of Control (LoC) organized a medical camp at village Uchaad in tehsil Mendhar. A team comprising of a doctor from BSF, nursing assistant and paramedics extended medical assistance to around 300 people. This camp was conducted in 168 BSF Battalion ...

Brigadier RK Bhatia (Retd) ‘Gar firdaus bar-rooh-e zameen ast, Hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast’ This couplet by celebrated mystic, Sufi poet Amir Khusro describes all that can be said about the beauty of Kashmir ‘if there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is ...