Srinagar: Srinagar-Jammu highway has been opened for vehicular traffic on Saturday after it was suspended due to shooting stones. Superintendent of Traffic Police Rural Kashmir, Manzoor Ahmad Mir told Kashmir Reader that stranded essential commodities vehicles were allowed to move towards Srinagar. “Due to the fair weather condition and better road condition, only essential commodities […]
Srinagar: Continuous rains in Valley has raised the water level in Dal Lake above the normal level, which is posing a threat to dwellers. The vice chairman of Lake and Water Way Authority Saturday visited directed to open all the exit gates to maintain the desired level. All the exit gates at Gow Kadal, Brari […]
Srinagar: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir (SKUAST-K) held a four-day online workshop on innovation and entrepreneurship. “About 75 students, scholars and faculty members participated in the online workshop, ‘Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Spurring Seeds to Agripreneurship’ organized by the SKUASTK’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Cell under the ICAR-World Bank-funded National Agricultural Higher Education Project […]
Baramulla: A forest guard injured in an accident last week in Boniyar area of Uri succumbed to his injuries on Saturday morning at SKIMS. He has been identified Gulam Mohammad Darzi of Nadihal Baramulla. Two forest gurads – Irfan Ahmad Shah of Janbazpora Baramulla and Gulam Mohammad Darzi of Nadihal Baramulla – were on way […]
NEW DELHI: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 488 and the number of cases to 14,792 in the country on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 12,289, as many as 2’015 people have been cured and discharged, and one had migrated, it said. […]
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Saturday praised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, saying that he has taken a positive stand over the coronavirus pandemic and shown how a responsible opposition party should behave during a crisis. The party, which shares power with Congress and NCP in Maharashtra, said that Gandhi took a stand in public interest […]
WASHINGTON: The number of the coronavirus cases in the US crossed 700,000 on Friday, while over 35,000 people have died from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data maintained by Johns Hopkins University, as President Donald Trump assured his people that America was “very close” to seeing the light “shinning brightly” at the end of the […]
NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to authorities to allow migrant workers across the country to return home after conducting necessary COVID-19 tests and also arrange their safe travel by providing necessary transportation. The plea said that in wake of the extension of the nationwide lockdown, the migrant […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization has said that many countries would likely follow China in revising up their death tolls once they start getting the coronavirus crisis under control. Wuhan, the COVID-19 epicentre, admitted missteps in tallying its death toll, abruptly raising the city’s count by 50 per cent — following growing world doubts about […]
Srinagar: Medical colleges in Jammu and Kashmir have started epidemiological profiling of Covid-19 “hotspots” to identify the trail of infection and analyse possible inducing factors like demography and clinical background of Covid-19 positive patients, officials said. They said the epidemiological analysis of Covid-19 hotspots will help the government devise an informed exit strategy from the lockdown. […]