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  Sameer Ahmad Anantnag: Residents of Ashmuqam Peer Mohalla in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district have demanded widening of the road and its macadamization at the earliest. They said that the narrow winding road was causing traffic jams and accidents too. The residents complained that everyday traffic jams are witnessed for…

Sameer Ahmad Anantnag,19 April: The state land in Movera area of Pahalgam has been illegally encroached by a hotelier which was already demolished by the Pahalgam Development Authority last week here in the Pahalgam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag District. According to sources, a hotelier in the Mavoora area of…

New Delhi : Amid an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases, Delhi has been placed under lockdown from tonight till next Monday morning (April 26), Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Monday. The restrictions will remain in place from 10 PM tonight till 5 AM next Monday. Kejriwal said that city’s…

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding a meeting to discuss the coronavirus crisis in the country as India battles an unprecedented surge in cases that saw a new record daily high today with over 2.73 lakh fresh infections. The meeting began at around 11.30 am today, hours after…

New Delhi:  The country needs to prepare for “greater uncertainty” in terms of the consumer as well as investor sentiments due to the second wave of coronavirus infections, and the government will respond with fiscal measures as and when required, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Sunday.While acknowledging…

New Delhi:  Persons dealing in narcotic drugs are instruments in causing death to innocent vulnerable victims and merely because an accused is a poor man and sole bread earner cannot be a mitigating factor to give him lesser punishment, the Supreme Court said.A bench of D Y Chandrachud and M…

Banihal/Jammu: Over 1,500 stranded vehicles, including trucks carrying fuel and other essential commodities, left for Kashmir as authorities reopened the Jammu-Srinagar national highway for stranded vehicles on Sunday after the road was cleared of landslide debris at different places in Ramban district, officials said. However, no fresh traffic was allowed…

New Delhi: The Railways will run ‘Oxygen Express’ over the next few days to transport liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders across the country, the national transporter said on Sunday.Amid spiralling coronavirus cases in the country, the demand for medical oxygen in the country has gone through the roof.Empty tankers…

Stresses vaccination key to battling pandemic New Delhi:  Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting five measures to battle the COVID-19 crisis, including ramping up vaccination and boosting the supply of medicines.In a letter to the prime minister, the veteran Congress leader said…

New Delhi:  The Union Health Ministry has asked states and union territories to ensure that restrictions on movement imposed by them for COVID-19 control do not adversely impact the inoculation exercise.In a letter to states and UTs, Additional Secretary in the Health Ministry Manohar Agnani said that in view of…