Month: July 2016

Three missing Israeli nationals traced in Leh

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Three Israeli nationals, including a woman, who lost contact with their embassy during trekking in Leh district, were traced by a search party of district administration and police officials late last night. The Israeli nationals, identified as Ayelet Halael (woman), Eyal Kogat and Yirmy Sneider, had gone missing in the Markha Valley area. Parassana Ramaswamy, Deputy Commissioner, Leh, told Kashmir Post that they got a message from the Israeli Embassy that their three nationals had lost contact with it after complaining of some health problems. “We received a request from the…

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Bathinda and Srinagar gas pipeline awaits Haryana clearance

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PDP-BJP govt yet to take up matter with neighbouring state The prestigious project of laying the 750-km-long gas pipeline between Bathinda and Srinagar via Jammu continues to be stuck as the PDP-BJP coalition government has not been able to sort out the “political and administrative” differences with Haryana government over the venture. Highly placed sources said the ruling dispensation hasn’t taken keen interest in the project as it is yet to take up the matter with the BJP government in Haryana “to amicably sort out the political and administrative differences”…

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Amarnath Yatra begins from today, first batch of pilgrims leaves Jammu

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The first batch of 1,138 pilgrims left Jammu on Friday for this year`s Amarnath Yatra that begins from Saturday. State Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, junior minister Priya Sethi and Lok Sabha member Jugal Kishore flagged off the first batch of pilgrims from Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in winter capital Jammu at 5 am on Friday. There are 900 males, 225 females and 13 children in the first batch which left in 13 buses, 24 mini-buses and other modes of public and private conveyance in a convoy guarded by the…

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