Anantnag: A Police Head Constable was shot at and killed by unidentified gunmen here in Hassanpora area of Kulgam district Saturday evening. The slain has been identified as Ali Muhammad Ganai, son of Ghulam Qadir Ganai, resident of Tabeala locality in Hassanpora area. “He was posted in Kulgam as Head Constable,” a senior police official […]
Anantnag: A gunfight between government forces and militants erupted late Saturday evening here in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, the police said. The gunfight has been reported from Naira village of Tahab here in Pulwama district. “Two to three militants are believed to be holed up in a residential house,” a police source from the […]
Anantnag: As the third wave of the pandemic is sweeping across Jammu and Kashmir, the major chunk of fresh infections has been reported from the Kashmir division of the union territory, while the Jammu division has been ahead in the number of fatalities caused by the infection. In the month of January, so far, Jammu […]
Anantnag: After finding mention in the government’s “Vision Document” for district Pulwama, there is still no sign of an all-weather outdoor gymnasium in main town Pulwama and a “multi-purpose” hall in Pampore town of the district. The vision document (2020-2022) enlisted all the proposed developmental work in this south Kashmir district for the aforementioned period. […]
Anantnag: As the Covid infections continue to spike, in January the recovery rate in Jammu and Kashmir has come down drastically in comparison to the recovery rates of the last six months. The current Covid tally in Jammu and Kashmir is 397202, out of which 349731 infected have already recovered. This puts the recovery rate […]
Hospitalisation, positivity rates see steep spike as infection overwhelms population Anantnag: With a steep spike in the test positivity rate of Covid infections, there has been a considerable increase in hospitalisation rate as well, pushing up Covid fatalities to a seven-month-high this January. Between January 1 and 18, there had been more than 1700 percent […]
Death toll nears second wave numbers, January records 18% more infections than cumulative tally of last 6 months Anantnag: With a record single-day surge of more than 5992 infections on Thursday, the highest since the beginning of the pandemic and more than the entire tally of July, January’s Covid infections in Jammu and Kashmir are […]
Anantnag: With a steep rise in the number of Covid infections here in Jammu and Kashmir, the daily positivity rate has also increased by a mammoth 1,740 percent between January 1 and January 16, official figures reveal. On January 1, the government said it conducted 65,920 Covid tests in the last twenty-four hours, out of […]
Anantnag: Covid infections in the month of January, here in Kashmir valley, have swelled past the individual tally of at least six previous months even as the administration has taken a slew of measures – including the closure of educational institutes – to curb the spread. So far Kashmir valley has witnessed 4267 fresh infections […]
3 army men, 2 civilians injured, residential house damaged Anantnag: Two people, one of them a Pakistani militant and another a policeman, were killed in a gunfight between militants and government forces here in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, the police said on Thursday. Three army men and two civilians were also injured during the […]