JAIPUR: A 32-year-old woman in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district lost her baby after doctors at a government hospital allegedly turned her away on learning that she was a Muslim. The woman’s husband, Irfan Khan, alleged that his wife had to deliver their child in an ambulance after the doctors refused to treat her. Meanwhile, a probe […]
Srinagar: The Srinagar district administration had on Friday asked people to place home-delivery orders from designated departmental stores, but the stores are either not answering calls or demanding a minimum order value for home delivery. Several complaints have been received from across Srinagar with people saying their calls are not being answered. Besides, they say, […]
RAASHID HASSAN: Shopian: A curious development has taken place in Shopian district where two persons, a husband and wife, tested positive on Saturday evening even though they had been for 14 days in quarantine and had not shown any symptoms for 18 days since they came back from Umrah pilgrimage. On March 18 the first […]
SRINAGAR: The government has not provided food to hundreds of migrant labourers who have been picked up from their rented accommodations and lodged at degree college Sopore. Shahid Ahmad, a non-local labourer, told Kashmir Reader that since they were brought to the college on Friday morning, no eatables have been provided to them. All the […]
Srinagar: In the haste of stocking up in every way possible amid the lockdown, people are preferring to buy raw flour and biscuits in bulk rather than traditional breads that are popular in Kashmir valley but which don’t have much shelf life. Sales of biscuits and raw flour have gone up in the past few […]
With 19 new cases, 16 of them from Kashmir, active cases now at 88
Srinagar: Nineteen more persons tested positive for novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, taking the total number of cases detected in the region to 94. Among these, two patients have died and four patients have recovered. It was the highest number of Covid 19 cases detected in Jammu and Kashmir in one day. […]
120 Tabligi Jamaat participants asked to report for medical check-up
Baramulla: The district administration Baramulla has declared 10 villages as red zones and several others as buffer zones in Tehsil Uri and Tehsil Tangmarg. District Magistrate Gulam Nabi Itoo issued an order on Saturday declaring villages of Sultandaki, Amlok Colony in Uri Tehsil and Check Chanpora, Chandilora, Hariwatno, Kampora, Gotlipora, Katipora, Qazipora in Tehsil Tangmarg […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Press Club (KPC) on Saturday issued a statement decrying “the attempts by authorities to throttle information on coronavirus”. Highlighting a recent gag order issued by Director Health Services, Kashmir, ordering doctors and paramedics not to share information with media about the ongoing crisis, the KPC said that stopping information flow amid the […]
SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, said that the COVID-19 cases who have foreign travel history and are currently in administrative quarantine will be released in case they test negative,within three days and will be put in home quarantine for 14 days. He stated this during a meeting with the KCCI representatives and […]
Srinagar : Three days after redefining the domicile for Jammu and Kashmir, the government of India issued amendments to rules and reserved all government jobs exclusively for domiciles. The amendments, however, seem to have hardly pacified J&K residents as the changes in rules are understood to only delay the onslaught on entitlements to land and […]