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New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) The Supreme Court Wednesday took note of the Centre's submissions that no fresh incident of violence against Kashmiris has been reported since February 22, the day when the apex court had taken cognisance of a PIL on the issue.

The apex court on February 22 directed chief secretaries and DGPs of 11 states to take "prompt" and "necessary" action to prevent incidents of alleged threat, social boycott and violence against Kashmiris following the Pulwama terror attack.

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) The entire airspace north of the Indian capital has been vacated, official sources said on Wednesday.

The skies above New Delhi were vacated as nine airports in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab were closed for civilian air traffic on a day of rapidly escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.

Indian news agency ANI reports quoting sources in the Indian Air Force that at 0330 hours on February 26, a group of Mirage 2000 Indian Fighter jets struck a major terrorist camp across the LoC and completely destroyed it.

The Indian Air Force has not yet responded to the claims. A statement is awaited.

9:00am The Ministry of Defence has told Reuters news agency that it has no information about  allegations that Indian aircraft violated Pakistani airspace.

New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) The Adani group has won the bid to operate five out of six airports that were put for privatisation by the central government, a senior official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said Monday.

Adanis were the highest bidder for Ahmedabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Lucknow, Mangaluru and Jaipur airports, the official said, adding the bid for the Guwahati airport will be opened on Tuesday.

New Delhi, Feb 24 (PTI) The teacher's association of the Jamia Millia Islamia has written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for establishing a hospital in the university that could be converted into a medical college in future.

"When we look at certain areas, where we can improve upon or progress, we find that three of our contemporary universities like DU, BHU and AMU are successfully running hospital and medical college," the Jamia Teachers' Association (JTA) said in the letter on Saturday.

New Delhi, February 23; GANASHAKTI: The National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) has cautioned against jingoism, mental militarization and spreading hatred against communities, in the aftermath of the brutal killing of CRPF personals in Pulwama.

It has also requested colleagues in some TV channels in particular, to desist from warmongering and at times, even acting as military strategists and advisers- rather than play the role of newspersons seeking to restore peace and stability, in these sensitive times.

New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Robert Vadra, facing Enforcement Directorate probe in cases of money laundering, moved an application in a Delhi court Saturday, seeking copy of case-related documents with the central agency.

Special judge Arvind Kumar posted the matter for February 25.

The application was moved through senior advocate KTS Tulsi.

ANKARA; 23 Feb 2019; AA: Amid tensions between nuclear armed neighbors India and Pakistan, a Pakistani parliamentarian traveled to India for a spiritual event on Saturday, opening a rare diplomatic opportunity for Islamabad.

Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, who represents ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the Pakistan National Assembly (MNA) said India would be the main benefactor if Delhi and Islamabad were to "join hands and walk together."

New Delhi, Feb 22 (PTI) The CBI has issued a notice barring foreign travel of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and MD of the Videocon Group Venugopal Dhoot, accused in a corruption case, officials said here Friday.

The move to issue a look out notice was taken nearly a week after a case was registered against Chanda Kochhar, Deepak and Dhoot to ensure that none of these people, alleged to be involved in corruption in clearing loans worth Rs 1,875 crore to the Videocon Group, were able to leave the country, the officials said.

New Delhi, Feb 22 (PTI) Three people, including two women, suspected to be close aides of the Neeraj Bawana gang were arrested and police seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from outer north district's Bawana area, an official said Friday.

The accused were identified as Virender, Nirmala and Kirti, all residents of Sultanpur Dabas village, he said.