Islamabad:Pakistan will send a special plane to China on Sunday to bring back the first batch of the 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine that Beijing has promised to provide to its close ally. The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), during a meeting here on the strategy of vaccine administration, said on Saturday that the […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported 76 fresh covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. The official said that among the cases, Srinagar reported 27, Baramulla 4, Budgam 3, Pulwama 9, Kupwara 1, Anantnag 4, Bandipora 3, Ganderbal 5, Kulgam, Shopian 1, Jammu 8, Udhampur 1, Rajouri 0,Doda, Kathua 0, Samba 0,Kishtwar […]
Baramulla: Voluntary Medicare Society (VMS) on Saturday organised a free Medical cum rehabilitation camp at Old hospital Pattan, in district Baramulla. During the camp more than 40 children with disabilities under the age of 18 years were given free orthopaedic checkups, physiotherapy, P&O assistance and rehabilitation services by Doctors and rehabilitation professionals of VMS. They […]
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he is “worried about the power of social media companies and called for creating a global mechanism to regulate them. Guterres, addressing a press conference on Thursday following his informal briefing to the UN member states on Priorities for 2021′, said he does not think we can […]
Srinagar: The government on Saturday ordered the transfer of five officers, four of them KAS, with immediate effect in the interest of administration. According to an order issued by the government on directions by the Lieutenant Governor, Rajesh Sharma (KAS), Secretary J&K Public Service Commission, has been transferred and posted as Custodian General, J&K. […]
Washington:The Biden administration is having a hard look at the extent to which the Taliban are complying with the conditions of the peace agreement and supports the negotiations between the stakeholders to find a durable political settlement to the long-standing conflict in Afghanistan, a top US official has said. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said […]
Anantnag: Wildlife officials and police arrested one person and recovered a number of leopard and other forest animal hides and body parts from his possession in Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Saturday. Sources told GNS that a team of wild officials along with police party raided a house at Shirpora Anantnag and recovered […]
New Delhi:With 13,083 fresh cases, India’s COVID-19 tally has gone up to 1,07,33,131, while 1,04,09,160 patients have recuperated so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 96.98 per cent, the health ministry said on Saturday. The viral disease has claimed 137 more lives in the country in a span of 24 hours and the death […]
Wuhan:Members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday. Jinyantan Hospital was one of the city’s first to deal with patients in early 2020 suffering from a then-unknown virus and is […]
Srinagar:Cold wave conditions continued in Kashmir on Saturday as the mercury stayed several degrees below freezing point across the valley, officials said. Srinagar city – the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir – recorded a low of minus 7.2 degrees Celsius marginally up from minus 7.7 degrees Celsius the previous night, they said. Qazigund the […]