Heroin injected in the blood brings Kashmir to brink of Hepatitis-C epidemic, with addiction levels worse than in Punjab, the poison sweeping through the valley in just the last 5 years Srinagar: A 12-year-old boy is among 14 patients currently admitted at Srinagar’s Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS) for their heroin addiction. Barring […]
Anantnag: The ebbing of the second wave of Covid-19 in Kashmir valley is evident in the number of recoveries during the month of June, which is more than double the number of fresh Covid cases detected in this month. The number of active cases of Covid in Kashmir division has also gone down by 80 […]
Aijaz was the only earning member of family that has 3 sisters, no mother Anantnag: A 20-year-old youth was stoned and then beaten to death by a group of “cow vigilantes” while he was transporting a buffalo to his home, in Rajouri district late Monday night. “He had bought the buffalo to keep milk available […]
Hospital bed occupancy down to 15 percent Anantnag: Even as fear of a third wave of Covid-19 looms large in Kashmir valley, there are only 530 patients admitted to different hospitals in Kashmir, with the hospital bed occupancy dropping to only 15 percent. Kashmir valley has at present 4,883 active cases of Covid-19. The bed […]
Anantnag: The Covid-19 pandemic has forced cancellation of the annual Amarnath Yatra, for the second year in a row, here in Jammu and Kashmir, the administration announced on Monday. Amid fears of a third wave of Covid-19, LG Manoj Sinha held a discussion with the Shri AmarnathJi Shrine Board and decided to not conduct the […]
Of 33 deaths in June so far, 26 in GMC Anantnag Anantnag: The Covid death rate in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district is 2.92 percent, so far in the month of June, way higher than the overall death rate of 1.2 percent in Kashmir division. About 21 percent of the Covid related deaths in Kashmir valley […]
Anantnag: The deadly second wave of Covid-19 here in Kashmir valley seems to be coming to an end as the recovery rate has gone up by 16 percent compared to last month, while the active cases in the ten districts of Kashmir division have nosedived by 77 percent. According to the official figures, the recovery […]
A team sent by the DC had found 22 doctors absent on June 14 Anantnag: The Principal of the Government Medical College (GMC) Anantnag has said that the Anantnag Deputy Commissioner (DC) acted “hastily and irresponsibly” and “in a puerile manner” over a “petty” complaint regarding the working of the hospital. The principal, Dr Showkat […]
Anantnag: The law of the land is yet to make Covid vaccination an “obligation” to be fulfilled by every citizen, but healthcare workers in Kashmir are picking up fights with people reluctant to get a dose, even making videos of them and posting them on social media in utter disregard to ‘choice and privacy’ of […]
Anantnag: Twelve days after mysteriously disappearing near her dwelling in Pahalgam forests, searches to locate the 4-year-old girl from Bakerwal community have yielded nothing. The minor girl named Shakira went missing near her dwelling in the forested area of Batkoot in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam on June 4 when the family was setting up their makeshift […]