Nowgam, Kharpora worst hit with 62 and 17 cases Anantnag: The last district in south Kashmir to register a Covid-19 positive case, Anantnag has since then witnessed a steady growth in the last fifteen days. With an addition of 12 new cases on Friday, the total has now reached 95. The district has even surpassed […]
JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, who is overall in-charge of coronavirus control efforts in Kashmir, convened a meeting here Friday to review the measures being put in place by various departments regarding prevention and control of COVID-19. Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, All Deputy Commissioners of Kashmir Division, Director SKIMS Soura, Principal GMC Srinagar, […]
Srinagar: Senior doctors in Kashmir have said that bodies of Covid-19 patients must be handled with respect while following certain precautions and guidelines to prevent transmission of the infection. They said no scientific evidence has been found which proves that coronavirus spreads from exposure to dead bodies of Covid-19 patients. “People shouldn’t stigmatise Covid-19 patients […]
Srinagar: The emergency medical staff of 108 ambulance services on Thursday night helped a nomad woman deliver a baby girl in the emergency vehicle at Malshahi Bagh village in Ganderbal. The ambulance staff had to conduct the delivery at around 12am midnight on a hilly terrain. Sakeena, a 25-year-old nomad woman from a Gujjar settlement […]
New Delhi: The Central Administrative Tribunal’s Jammu and Kashmir bench will hear service-related matters of employees of the central government and union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, the Personnel Ministry said on Friday. The ministry, in an order dated April 29, had said the CAT’s Chandigarh bench will have jurisdiction of the benches […]
Baramulla: Three people including a brother and sister were injured in firing along Line of Control in Uri on Friday. Armies of India and Pakistan exchanged light to heavy gunfire and targeted the posts of each other in Hajipeer village resulting in injuries to three people including a brother and sister. Firing caused panic among […]
Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Friday granted three weeks to government to file counter affidavit and directed the authorities to produce detention record of senior National Conference leader, Ali Mohammad Sagar. Justice Sindhu Sharma while granting the time to Additional Advocate General (AAG), BA Dar, directed him to bring the detention record by May […]
Srinagar: On World Labour Day, casual labourers employed by the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department demanded payment of their daily wages which are pending for a four-year period from 2015 to 2018. As per official records, more than 10,000 registered casual labourers work for the PHE department. They are not entitled to any leaves or […]
Advisor, CS visit Lakhanpur
KATHUA: In order to make arrangements for regulated movement of stranded people, students, tourists, pilgrims and other persons stranded at different places due to lockdown, Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, K. K. Sharma and Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam Friday visited Lakhanpur and took stock of preparations being made by the Kathua Administration. At the […]
JAMMU: Government on Friday issued online registration and Helpline numbers to facilitate Migrant Workers, Students & other Persons stranded outside Jammu & Kashmir for their evacuation. A day after the centre gave the goahead to return of migrant workers, stranded persons & students in different parts of the country to their respective destinations, the Jammu […]