Srinagar: The novel coronavirus cases in Jammu and Kashmir reached 775 on Wednesday as 34 more people tested positive, officials said. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 445. Thirty-two out of the 34 new cases are from the Kashmir Valley, while two were from the Jammu region, according to the officials. “Thirty-four new […]
New Delhi: Close to nine crore users have downloaded the Aarogya Setu mobile application and it has been made mandatory that government and private sector employees use it to bolster efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was informed about this on Tuesday by officials during its 14th meeting […]
Islamabad: In a first, a Pakistani Hindu youth has become the first person from the minority community to join the Pakistan Air Force. Rahul Dev has been recruited as a General Duty Pilot Officer, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said in a tweet. Dev hails from Tharparkar district of Sindh province. Sharing the picture of […]
Beijing: China on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show the “enormous evidence” he claimed to have to prove that the novel coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan and asserted that the virus was not man-made. On May 3, Pompeo said that the US has “enormous evidence” to show that the […]
Washington: A fired American scientist has alleged that the Trump administration ignored the concern of doctors in the US over the importation of hydroxychloroquine from “uninspected factories” in India and Pakistan and flooded the country with the “unproven and potentially dangerous” anti-malarial drug. In a complaint filed on Tuesday before the US Office of Special […]
New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,694 and the number of cases climbed to 49,391 in the country on Wednesday, registering an increase of 126 deaths and 2,958 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases is 33,514. A total of 13,160 […]
Srinagar, May 6 (PTI) A top Hizbul Mujahideen commander, on the run for eight years, was on Wednesday killed in an encounter with security forces in his home village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said. The Jammu and Kashmir authorities have already snapped mobile internet services across the valley as a precautionary measure, in anticipation […]
Srinagar: Fourteen more persons tested positive of the novel Coronavirus in Kashmir on Tuesday, taking the number of Covid-19 patients in J&K to 740, officials said. They said among the new Covid-19 positive patients, nine were detected at the virology lab of SKIMS Soura while five were confirmed at Chest Disease Hospital lab. Nodal Officer […]
Bijbehara: Thousands of people dependent for their health care needs on the Sub-District Hospital (SDH) in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district have been left worried after the administration designated the hospital for pregnant women who live in Covid-19 red zones of the district. There are currently 7 red zones in Anantnag district with over 100 […]
Srinagar: The district administration Srinagar on Tuesday cancelled all movement passes issued by or before May 5 citing misuse of the passes amid the prevailing Covid-19 lockdown. An order issued by District Magistrate Srinagar, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, said that the magistrates in the district and police reports have reported ” large scale misuse of passes” […]