JAMMU / NEW DELHI: A two-day search for the infiltration route of the four Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists killed in a shootout with security forces on the Jammu-Srinagar highway last Thursday has culminated in the discovery of a 150 meter long road. Cross-border underground tunnel lined with sandbags with “Karachi markings”. The …
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NEW DELHI: India has set an ambitious goal of generating 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. Addressing G-20 leaders on a ‘circular carbon economy approach’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “We will meet our goal of 175 gigawatts of renewable energy energy long before the 2022 goal. Now, we …
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Read More »200-meter-long underground tunnel used by Jaish men killed in Nagrota | India News
NEW DELHI: In further evidence of Origins of Pakistan of the four Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists killed on November 19 in Nagrota, Jammu, BSF and J&K police on Sunday unearthed the cross-border underground tunnel that the quartet allegedly used to infiltrate India from the Samba sector. The tunnel appeared to have been …
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NEW DELHI: Assuming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the Hathras Incident, Leader of Congress Rahul gandhi on Sunday he said that the constant exploitation of victims at the hands of Uttar Pradesh the government is unbearable. “The constant exploitation of victims by the government in the UP is unbearable. …
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