Day: April 23, 2021

As Narender Modi extends olive branch all focus shifted to Kashmir Issue

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Pro-freedom Hurriyat group welcomes Modi’s appeal to Pakistan leader Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sent a letter to his Pakistani counterpart on the occasion of Pakistan’s Republic Day, calling for “cordial relations” between the two neighbors in a move that marks a major thaw between New Delhi and Islamabad. The letter addressed to Prime Minister Imran Khan comes a month after both countries announced a ceasefire along the disputed border in Kashmir. “As a neighboring country, India desires cordial relations with the people of Pakistan,” Modi wrote in…

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Days after returning from Kumbh Mela, BJP leader Thakur Puran Singh succumbs to COVID-19

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BJP leader and former legislator Thakur Puran Singh died due to the Coronavirus infection in Jammu division’s Rajouri district on Thursday. Party sources said Mr. Singh, a resident of Kewal, Koteranka, Rajouri, had attended the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand recently. The Rajouri administration has passed strict orders on abiding by the COVID protocols while cremating the body. “The body shall directly be taken to the Cremation Ground, Kewal Tehsil, Koteranka. Only four persons (relatives) with the PPE kits and other required gadgets as per standard operating procedure shall be allowed…

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Vehical Re-Registration Row: HC asks RTO Kashmir what necessitated issuance of circular for re-registration

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The High Court Wednesday asked the Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Kashmir to inform it by Thursday as to what necessitated the issuance of a circular for re-registration of vehicles brought to J&K from outside. The court said there was no bar for transport authorities to screen the vehicles with non-local registration mark for checking their “document veracity and the bona fide entry” into the territorial limits of J&K. A division bench of justices Ali Muhammad Magrey and Vinod Chatterji Koul while hearing two writ petitions challenging the circular asked the…

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