NEW DELHI: The new coronavirus will no longer be circulating in Britain by August, the government’s departing vaccine taskforce chief Clive Dix told the Daily Telegraph on Friday. “Sometime in August, we will have no circulating virus in the UK”, Dix said, adding that he believed the vaccine booster programme could be pushed back to […]
Srinagar: J&K High Court Bar Association on Saturday expressed its deepest and heartfelt condolences on the death of renowned Professor in chemistry, Dr. Bashir Ahmad Dar passed away at his residence at Kralpora Srinagar. In a statement issued by GN Shaheen spokesman JKHCBA srinagar, said that the deceased was a born geneious and fine intellect […]
Srinagar: Covid-19 graph is witnessing an unprecedented spike with record 5,443 daily cases reported in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday apart from 50 more deaths. According to officials, 29 deaths were reported in Jammu and 21 in Kashmir. The two capital cities, Srinagar and Jammu, reported 7 and 24 deaths. Of the rest, four in […]
More than 11k cases, 78 deaths in first five days of May Anantnag: The intensity of the second wave of Covid-19 here in Kashmir valley can be gauged by the fact that 35 percent of all infections reported in the ten districts of the valley since March last year have come since April 1 this […]
SRINAGAR: For the second year in a row, people in Kashmir offered prayers of Jumat-ul-Vida, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, either at local mosques or at their homes, anot not at central mosques, due to the raging Covid-19 pandemic. At all the central mosques, be it Jamia Masjid Srinagar or Dargah […]
Srinagar: Forty-three persons were arrested and 12 cases were registered in Kashmir for violations against lockdown on Friday, police said. Also, 24 vehicles were seized for plying on roads. The government imposed lockdown last month after Covid situation worsened in Jammu and Kashmir with mounting daily cases. In Srinagar and elsewhere, police and CRPF soldiers […]
Kupwara: A Covid-19 positive person was arrested by police in Karnah Tehsil of Kupwara district after he was found roaming in the town. Locals reported to police and accordingly a case (FIR 36/2021) was filed in Police Station Karnah and the person was handed over to the health department for quarantine. On Thursday, two brothers […]
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release all political detainees languishing in jails in and outside Jammu and Kashmir immediately in the wake of the worsening Covid-19 situation. Throughout the world, most countries have released prisoners on parole in view of the alarming Covid crisis. A democratic […]
NEW DELHI: There is increasing evidence to suggest that COVID-19 is not just a disease of the lungs as initially thought but can also cause dangerous blood clots which need to be immediately retrieved to save limbs in some cases, say experts. Global studies have shown that the prevalence of blood clot formation known as […]
Chief Engineer passes buck to distribution wing, which says, ‘no communication yet’ Srinagar: A month has passed since Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha e-inaugurated the Verinag receiving station, among other power projects, but the officials in charge have failed to make operations start at the station. On 3rd April, Manoj Sinha virtually inaugurated 17 power projects […]