Washington: The US government’s foremost infection disease expert says the country could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, offered his prognosis as the federal government weighs rolling back guidelines on social distancing in areas that have not […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, who was released Tuesday after 232 days in detention, has been sharing tips on surviving quarantine or a lockdown, drawing on his months of experience . His advises have been coming in the form of a tweet thread which he started on March 24. Fresh air really […]
Srinagar Mar 29: University of Kashmir Sunday ordered release of one month’s salary in favour of its contractual and other daily wage employees in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and the simultaneous lockdown. An order issued by Registrar KU, Prof Nisar Ahmad Mir directed the heads of departments, directorates and satellite campuses to release […]
Srinagar: Private Schools Association J&K (PSAJK) and J&K Private Schools’ Coordination Committee Sunday urged the institutions to defer fee collection from students in the face of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic which has forced an absolute lockdown forcing economic activities to a grinding halt. In a joint statement issues Sunday, the two associations said asked the […]
Jammu: Director General of Jammu and Kashmir police Dilbag Singh said 337 FIRs have been registered and 627 persons arrested for violating prohibitory orders in the Union Territory amid the coronavirus outbreak. He said 118 shops and 490 vehicles were seized for defying the government orders. The Jammu and Kashmir administration has ordered a shutdown of […]
Paris:The worldwide number of officially confirmed fatalities from the novel coronavirus rose to 31,412 on Sunday, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources. More than two-thirds of the deaths from coronavirus have now been recorded in Europe. Over 667,090 declared cases have been registered in 183 countries and territories since the epidemic […]
Baghdad: The US-led coalition withdrew on Sunday from a military base in northern Iraq that nearly launched Washington into an open war with neighbouring Iran. The K1 Air Base is the third site coalition forces have left this month in line with US plans to consolidate its troops in two locations in Iraq. A rocket attack […]
New Delhi:The labour ministry has allowed over 6 crore subscribes of retirement fund body EPFO to withdraw an amount not exceeding their three months basic pay and dearness allowance from their EPF account in view of the lockdown to fight COVID-19. Besides, Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) also introduced online claim settlement facility without manual […]
Srinagar Mar 29: Amid rise in COVID-19 cases in India, distress messages from Kashmiri students continue to pour in with around a dozen medical aspirants from the valley saying they had been stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota city amid the prevailing all-India lockdown. The students asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to facilitate their return back […]
Madrid:Spain confirmed another 838 deaths in 24 hours from coronavirus on Sunday, a new daily record bringing the total number of deaths to 6,528, according to health ministry figures. The number of confirmed cases in Spain has now reached 78,797 — after an increase of 9.1 percent in one day — as the country battles […]