JAMMU: Financial Commissioner Finance, Dr, Arun Kumar Mehta Tuesday chaired the Finance Committee meeting of Jammu & Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) here in his office chambers. During the meeting, the enhancement of allowances in favour of evaluators, code officers was confirmed, besides the budget estimate proposals for the current fiscal 2020-21 and revision […]
Shopian: A militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. The encounter broke out after the militants opened fire at a search party of the security forces at Melhora in Zainapora area of the district, a police official said. He said the forces […]
Bangkok/Kathmandu: The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have called for an end to “intimidation and criminalisation” of journalists and human rights defenders in Jammu and Kashmir. Referring to recent police cases against three Kashmiri journalists, Masrat Zahra, Peerzada Ashiq and Gowhar Geelani, a […]
JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu Monday called for preparing a comprehensive strategy for the post May 3 scenario in advance to combat COVID-19 pandemic in Jammu and Kashmir. The Lt Governor was chairing a meeting on COVID-19 control efforts at the Raj Bhavan soon after the interaction with the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, […]
Srinagar: The J&K Society of Consultant Doctors (JKSCD) on Monday issued a health advisory ahead of the pollen season in Kashmir. A statement issued by the JKSCD here said that a large proportion of population reports seasonal symptoms related to pollen, the most common of which being itchy and watery eyes, nasal congestion, runny nose, […]
SRINAGAR: Secretary Youth Services and Sports Department, Sarmad Hafeez and Commissioner Secretary Floriculture, Gardens & Parks Department Sheikh Fayaz on Monday chaired a joint meeting here to review the preparations being made for the opening of offices at Civil Secretariat here on May 04. The meeting was attended by Executive Engineer Secretariat, CMO Srinagar, Health […]
Asyia Qadir Thanks to Covid19, carbon dioxide emissions have lessened in many countries, but when the world will return to normalcy, industries will function normally and vehicles will return to the roads. In short, the emissions of carbon dioxide and other noxious gases will resume. In the Earth’s history, five major mass extinctions of species […]
Kathua: A group of 369 students, hailing from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, reached here on Monday from Kota in Rajasthan onboard 15 SRTC buses, officials said. Soon after their arrival, they were screened for COVID-19 and later allowed to proceed to their home districts in the two Union Territories where they […]
Exhorts officers to put in joint efforts to contain Corona virus infection
SRINAGAR: In view of COVID-19 Pandemic, the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang K Pole today chaired a meeting to review the procedures for streamlining and further improving the functioning of the Corona virus testing laboratories at SKIMS and GMC Srinagar. Various measures were discussed threadbare in the meeting which includes 24×7 functioning of labs, pool testing […]
SRINAGAR: On completion of successful treatment, Eighteen (18) more COVID-19 patients admitted after testing positive more than two weeks back at various referral centres were discharged, here today. So far among 137 admitted in this Hospital for Covid-19 treatment, 31 have recovered including one critically ill patient referred from GMC, Baramulla for ICU Care more […]