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JKPCL to buy 200 MW Solar Power from SECI for next 25 years

JKPCL to buy 200 MW Solar Power from SECI for next 25 years

AC approves decision for ensuring 24X7 reliable electricity supply in Jammu and Kashmir JAMMU, DECEMBER 17: The Administrative Council (AC) which met here under the chairmanship of the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, approved the purchase of 200 MW Solar Power through the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to meet the growing power demand and […]

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DC Shopian for plantation at the landslide prone areas

DC Shopian for plantation at the landslide prone areas

SHOPIAN, DECEMBER 17:- Deputy Commissioner Shopian, Sachin Kumar Vaishya today chaired a meeting to review the landslide prone areas in the district. The meeting was attended by ADC Shopian Mushtaq Ahmad Simnani ,DFO,ACP, all tehsildars, all BDOS and other concerned. DM had a detailed review of the landslide prone areas  and asked the concerned to […]

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J&K Reports 2 Covid-19 Deaths, 136 Cases

J&K Reports 2 Covid-19 Deaths, 136 Cases

Srinagar, Dec 17: Jammu and Kashmir reported two fresh deaths due to covid-19 while 136 persons tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Friday. 40 of the fresh cases were reported from Jammu Division and 96 from Kashmir, taking the overall tally to 339540. There were two deaths reported […]

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Officer among three troopers injured in south Kashmir’s Kulgam

Officer among three troopers injured in south Kashmir’s Kulgam

At least three CRPF paramilitary personnel, including an ASI rank officer, sustained injuries after a vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident in Kader Kulgam, officials said. They told GNS that the ‘BP Bunker’ of 18 Batallion CRPF was on way from Behibagh to Kulgam. In the incident, two constables Ambit and Anil […]

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Sub zero temperatures prevail in Ladakh and Kashmir

Sub zero temperatures prevail in Ladakh and Kashmir

By: Tariq Shah VOV Srinagar Winter is showing its teeth especially during the night hours as the mercury continues to slide down in Ladakh and Kashmir. Clear skies and sunshine during the day time is making life pleasant but soon after the sunset intense cold waves prevails and the nights witness minus temperatures. According to […]

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Murder of woman by servant: Police question involved Agency

Murder of woman by servant: Police question involved Agency

The Domestic-Help that allegedly murdered an elderly woman in Lal Bazar area of Srinagar city was supplied to the house owner by an Agency without asking concerned police station to verify his credentials. The men who run the Agency with regard to offering services of domestic-help (servant) to different house owners in Srinagar are being […]

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Ombudsman finds Smith, Boucher and De Villiers showed racial prejudice

Ombudsman finds Smith, Boucher and De Villiers showed racial prejudice

JOHANNESBURG: South African cricket legends Graeme Smith, Mark Boucher and A.B. de Villiers were all found to have engaged in racially prejudiced conduct in a report by an independent ombudsman released on Wednesday. Cricket South Africa (CSA) made public a 235-page interim report by Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, who headed a Social Justice and Nation Building […]

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Thousands leave homes as typhoon hits Philippines

Thousands leave homes as typhoon hits Philippines

DAPA: Thousands of people in the Philippines fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Super Typhoon Rai pummelled the country on Thursday, with a charity warning the storm could hit coastal communities “like a freight train”. Rai is the strongest storm to hit the disaster-prone archipelago this year. It was packing maximum sustained winds of […]

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Omicron Covid-19: 10 More Cases Detected In Delhi; Toll Mounts To 20

Omicron Covid-19: 10 More Cases Detected In Delhi; Toll Mounts To 20

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Friday said 10 new cases of the new Covid variant Omicron have been detected in the national capital, taking the tally to 20. Ten of these patients have been discharged, he said. The minister said 10 out of the 40 samples sent for genome sequencing tested positive for the […]

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Survey

Survey

Government has recently asked the Social Welfare Department to get the survey done about those children who are in the streets without any care. After the recent media reports that some covid orphans were being sold outside the Jammu and Kashmir has invoked the attention of the government towards those children who need the intervention […]