Covid-19: India registers 24,712 fresh cases

Covid-19: India registers 24,712 fresh cases

NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 caseload rose to 1,01,23,778 with 24,712 new infections being reported in a day, while the recoveries have surged to 96.93 lakh, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll increased to 1,46,756 with 312 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. The number of […]

FASTag to be mandatory for vehicles from January 1, says Union minister Nitin Gadkari

NEW DELHI: FASTags will be mandatory for vehicles from January 1, 2021,Union minister Nitin Gakdari said on Thursday. FASTags, which facilitate electronic payment of fee at toll plazas, was introduced in 2016. Making the tags compulsory would also help in ensuring that vehicles pass seamlessly through the toll plazas as fee payment would be done […]

Govt again invites farmer unions for talks, says it won’t be logical to discuss MSP-related demand

Govt again invites farmer unions for talks, says it won’t be logical to discuss MSP-related demand

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday again invited protesting farmer unions for talks, but made it clear that it would not be “logical” to include in the agenda any new demand related to minimum support price (MSP), which is out of the purview of three new farm laws. In a three-page letter written to 40 […]

President greets citizens on Christmas eve, hopes festival will nurture peace across world

NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday greeted citizens on the eve of Christmas and expressed hope that this festival would nurture peace throughout the world and help maintain harmony in mankind. Christmas is an occasion to celebrate with joy and fervour the birth of Jesus Christ, he said. “I hope that this festival […]

PIB Srinagar conducts IMPCC meeting

SRINAGAR: A virtual meeting of Inter Media Publicity Coordination Committee (IMPCC) of the various units of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) and other Central Government organisations was organised by Press Information Bureau (PIB) Srinagar today. This was the third such meeting to be conducted in online mode owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The […]

Complex Coronary Angioplasty workshop conducted at GSSH, Shireen Bagh

SRINAGAR: A well-organised Complex Coronary Angioplasty workshop was today conducted today here at Govt. Super Specialty Hospital, Shireen Bagh. The workshop was organised under the Chairpersonship of Prof (Dr. Samia Rashid), Principal/ Dean, Govt. Medical College, Srinagar. Dr. Pratap Kumar, Cofounder and course Director of KT proctored the session. On the occasion, the patients who […]

Training on enhancing skills, competencies of doctors in management of trauma patients concludes

Srinagar: The program was attended by doctors working in the peripheral hospitals of the Kashmir division besides doctors working with the CRPF and Medical Colleges also attended the training. The training covered Basic Life Support (BLS) and Management of Trauma. The concluding ceremony was presided over by Dr Samir Mattoo, Director Health Services Kashmir (DSHK), […]

110 seats to Gupkar Alliance, 75 to BJP, 50 to Independents

Srinagar: Except for Drugmalla constituency in Kupwara district and Hajin-A constituency in Bandipora district, results of 278 of the 280 DDC seats in J&K were declared on Wednesday. The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) won the maximum seats at 110, the BJP won the majority of seats in Jammu region at 72, and Independents […]

Modi govt doing everything to restore grassroots democracy in JK: Shah

Modi govt doing everything to restore grassroots democracy in JK: Shah

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hailed the recent conclusion of the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir and said the Modi government is doing everything to restore the grassroots democracy in the union territory. In a series of tweets, Shah also thanked the people of Jammu and Kashmir […]

Fight me politically rather than using state machinery: Mehbooba to BJP

Fight me politically rather than using state machinery: Mehbooba to BJP

Srinagar: A day after The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of six political parties fighting for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, bagged majority of seats in District Development Council (DDC) elections, its key leader Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday slammed the BJP for deploying coercive methods to handle opposition. Addressing a […]