In 19 days, only 9% vaccinated, 15 days left for 24% more Anantnag: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday set another deadline of June-end for the completion of Covid vaccination to people in the 45-plus age group, 19 days after the administration missed the first deadline set by him. However, 23.94 percent of the population […]
Anantnag: The number of active cases of Covid-19 in Kashmir has gone down by about 60 percent since a month ago, while the recovery rate has also risen to 92.3 percent (on June 9) compared to 75.5 percent on May 8. The progress made is despite the fact that over 57k new cases have been […]
Anantnag: The occupancy of hospital beds designated for Covid-19 patients has witnessed a considerable decline in Srinagar and elsewhere in Kashmir division as the recovery rate has gone up while the number of new cases has come down. As on June 6, 1,078 beds out of the total 2,853 in the 24 Covid hospitals of […]
Anantnag: A conspicuously large troop movement in Jammu and Kashmir has added impetus to already buzzing rumour mills in Kashmir valley about a new “big development” being planned by New Delhi, on the lines of the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. A substantial number of troops have arrived in Jammu and Kashmir over […]
Anantnag: Seven civilians were injured Sunday afternoon in a mysterious blast which, sources said, was a grenade attack, here in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. One of the injured has been shifted to SMHS hospital in Srinagar for further treatment. “He is stable but needs some tests to be run, which is why […]
Anantnag: It has been 19 days since Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha set a 10-day deadline for completion of Covid vaccination to 45-plus age group but the administration is still way short of achieving the target, with major districts like Srinagar showing no considerable progress. Only three districts, across the Union Territory, have managed to achieve […]
Principal of GMC had claimed, falsely, of having 40 ICU beds Anantnag: An embarrassed administration on Wednesday rushed a fact finding team to Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital in Anantnag after an official press release mentioned that the “hospital had 40 ICU beds” while the information department bulletin maintained that the facility had no such […]
Anantnag: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member who was the Chairman of Tral Municipal Committee was shot at and killed late Wednesday evening here in Tral town of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A woman Asifa Mushtaq was also injured in the attack. The slain BJP leader has been identified as Rakesh Pandita, son of Brij […]
Asymptomatic and fit, this person from Rajouri is the only patient admitted right now Anantnag: The Anantnag Deputy Commissioner’s security guard, infected with Covid but asymptomatic, has got a whole Covid designated hospital, in Akoora area of the district, for himself, along with a team of medical staff present round the clock – including at […]
Counting food packets and tinkering with duty roster their other priorities Anantnag: Officials with no medical qualifications being entrusted with administering the Covid hospitals in Anantnag is turning out to be severely unproductive and disrupting to the overall work of these hospitals as the priorities of these administrators are hardly centered on effective functioning of […]