Published by DPA Germany’s new Carnival season opened at 11:11 am (1011 GMT) on Thursday with thousands of revellers turning out onto the streets of several cities. In Cologne, where the 11th is traditionally celebrated on a particularly grand scale, some of the queues in front of the cordoned-off celebration zones were hundreds of metres
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Published by Mongabay MARSEILLE, France — Pascal Hagmann lowered a manta trawl — a ray-shaped, metal device with a wide mouth and a fine-meshed net — off the side of his sailboat and into the blue waters off the coast of Marseille, France. Then he motored around at 3 knots. The manta trawl skimmed along
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Published by Newscraving Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, A District commander of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant outfit is among the two militants killed in a gunfight in southern kashmir area of Kulgam. According to police, the district commander was identified as Shiraz Molvi and his accomplice as Yawar Bhat. Shiraz was active since 2016 and had recruited
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Published by Newscraving Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir police along with the CRPF conducted surprise search operation and frisking at Saraibala and its adjoining areas in Srinagar on Thursday. Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that police and the CRPF conducted surprise search and frisking operation in Saraibala area of the city and
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Published by Newscraving Staff Report Srinagar, Authorities have banned the sale of “crude” heating equipment ahead of the winters in Kashmir. In a meeting which was convened by divisional commissioner Kashmir here, the top officer directed that the joint inspection teams of Revenue, PDD and Police shall be constituted who will ensure that crude heating
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Published by Newscraving Newscraving Desk: Budgam, Police on Thrusday claimed to have cracked burglary case within 36 hours in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a statement, police said that on 9th November, police post Soibugh received an application from one Showkat Ahmad Zargar son of Ghulam Nabi Zargar resident of Dambipora stating therein that some
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Published by Reuters By Sudarshan Varadhan CHENNAI (Reuters) – Heavy rains that have killed at least 25 people in southern India and Sri Lanka are likely to ease in the next few days, weather officials said on Thursday. A bulletin of the Indian Meteorological Department forecast light to moderate rainfall in most affected areas, with
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Published by Newscraving Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Authorities on Wednesday said that the Term-II examination of 8th standard will be conducted on Multiple Choice Question (MCQs) based with thirty percent syllabi relaxation. In a notification issued by the State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) of Jammu and Kashmir, the Term-II examination of 8th standard
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Published by Reuters By Dmitry Antonov and Robin Emmott MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for new sanctions against Minsk in a crisis that threatens to draw in Russia and NATO. Russia took the rare
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Published by Al-Araby Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said Wednesday that the threat posed by the Islamic State group in the country was “more or less under control” despite recent bloody attacks that have killed dozens. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a news conference that IS was “not a great threat”, adding that around 600 members or sympathisers
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