BUDGAM: District Development Commissioner (DDC), Budgam, Tariq Hussain Ganai Tuesday said that there is no need to panic as all the 41 Budgam residents who arrived from China and Iran have been quarantined and tested negative with no symptoms of infection of Coronavirus. DDC made these remarks during his visit to various isolation wards established […]
SRINAGAR: The round-the-clock control room established in Srinagar as part of arrangements put in place to prevent spread of novel coronavirus has made and received some 400 calls since Monday afternoon after it was activated. While most of these calls were dialled out from the control room a significant number of these calls were those […]
NEW DELHI: Fifty-eight Indians were brought back home from coronavirus-hit Iran in a military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday. The aircraft, a C-17 Globemaster, was sent to Tehran from Hindon airbase near Ghaziabad on Monday evening. IAF spokesperson Group Captain Anupam Banerjee said the aircraft evacuated 25 men, 31 women […]
Jammu: Four people with travel history to coronavirus-hit countries and three more who had a guest from Italy stay with them have been put under home quarantine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, officials said on Tuesday. Two persons each in Vijaypur and Swankha areas and three in Samba area of the district have been […]
Udhampur/Jammu: Five family members, including four children, died and another was injured when a boulder hit a house in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district early on Tuesday, officials said. The incident occurred at Barmean village in Ramnagar area, following which the house totally collapsed and five family members were buried, according to officials. Locals and […]
Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Ministry of Transport Government of India through its Secretary calling for a response on a policy with regard to regulation of the registration of the vehicles. The court passed the direction after Government counsel informed that since the erstwhile state of J&K was bifurcated into […]
Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Tuesday quashed seven Public Safety Act (PSA) detentions on the ground that detenues were not supplied with proper material, no representation, and insufficient evidence was brought on record before court. The court of Justice Tashi Rabstan quashed five detentions while Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey quashed two detentions. This is […]
Srinagar: Highly qualified youth looking for an academic job have alleged “discrimination” in the Higher Education Department’s decision to continue the services of dozens of previously hired teachers at Kashmir colleges under Academic Arrangement basis. The department said that it was only acting on court orders while assuring the aggrieved candidates that their employment avenues […]
PULWAMA: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable was injured on Tuesday evening after suspected militants lobbed a grenade towards a police station at Kakapora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Militants hurled the grenade on police station Kakapora, however the grenade exploded outside the wall of police station. Police at the station fired a […]
Shopian: The snow clearance on Mughal Road, which connects Kashmir via Shopian with Poonch and Rajori districts in Jammu region, is likely to be started by the 25th of this month. Officials told Kashmir Reader that several feet of snow had accumulated on this road as the region last year received the heaviest snowfall in […]