SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir has been among the best performers in India in terms of peace, justice and strong institutions, says the NITI Aayog’s report, released on Saturday, on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). According to the report, JK has a very low rate of 0.9 murders per 1,00,000 population in India. The highest rate is […]
SRINAGAR: The easing of lockdown restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir has been possible due to a steady decline in the number of fresh cases and fatalities, as well as a steady rise in the recovery rate from the viral infection. In the last two weeks, the recovery rate has moved up by 8 percent. It […]
SRINAGAR: After a corona lockdown of nearly one month, life on the streets returned on Monday in most parts of Kashmir Valley, though with cautious and thin movement of people and public transport on the roads and only partial business activity in markets. As Monday morning arrived, shopkeepers opened their shutters in every nook and […]
Restaurants, however, open only for home delivery SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Sunday eased the Covid-19 restrictions after a month since they were imposed to contain the raging pandemic. Now, business establishments, offices, malls and public transport will be allowed to operate from Monday on weekdays. As per the guidelines issued, weekend curfew […]
SRINAGAR: The JK Government has to take a multi-pronged approach, with multiple actions at a time, on war footing to prevent the severity of the third wave of Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, suggests the Advisory Committee Report for an action plan. The report has come two weeks after the committee was formed to devise […]
SRINAGAR: The Covid-19 vaccination which is said to be the only way to prevent a deadly third wave of the pandemic may not offer immunity in case the virus starts to have antigenic shifts. These shifts occur when two or more different strains of a virus or strains of two or more different viruses combine […]
Asif Sultan is still imprisoned in Central Jail Srinagar despite many court hearings SRINAGAR: International award-winning incarcerated journalist Asif Sultan on Sunday completed 1,000 days in prison. In the almost three years that he has spent in prison, everything has changed at his home, but charges against him are yet to be dropped despite many […]
SRINAGAR: Amid the raging second wave of Covid-19 in Kashmir Valley, the Tourism department has begun to make preparations for the tourism season once again, albeit with a difference. Secretary, Tourism, Sarmad Hafeez told Kashmir Reader that among the first steps the department will take will be to train all the tourism players in how […]
SRINAGAR: Assistant Professor at Kashmir University (KU), Dr Mustahson Farooq, who died on Monday due to Covid-19, could have been saved at Chest Diseases (CD) Hospital were it not for negligence and lack of proper treatment, his family alleged. According to his father-in-law, Prof Muhammad Yaseen Kirmani, the 55-year-old assistant professor had been admitted to […]
Srinagar: Kashmiri artisans who have kept the handicrafts trade alive are facing the most difficult times but the government has not come forward to ease their suffering so far, Parvez Ahmad, President of Kashmir Artisans Rehabilitation Forum, said on Monday. Addressing a press conference here, Ahmad said that the ongoing pandemic has affected the already […]