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Grenade lobbed at forces in Pulwama

Pulwama: Suspected militants on Sunday evening lobbed a grenade towards government forces in main Chowk in Kakapora area of Pulwama. An official told KNO that...

No let-up in corona lockdown

Srinagar: Strict restrictions continued for the third straight day in Kashmir to prevent spread of Covid 19 in the region. The drastic measures have...

Observe Janata curfew today: Div Com appeals people

SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K. Pole on Saturday appealed people across Kashmir to observe Janata Curfew on March 22 in letter and...

Follow advisories: Govt to people

JAMMU: The government on Saturday said that 3611 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases have been put under surveillance and, so far,...

Waqf suspends prayers at shrines, mosques

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board on Saturday announced suspension of regular prayers in shrines and mosques affiliated to it as a preventive measure...

Gazetted holidays cancelled

Srinagar: In view of the emerging situation because of the threat from the coronavirus epidemic and the need for strengthening of response apparatus to...

Quarantine J&K style: 5 persons in a room with no masks, no sanitisers

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government is quarantining people (for preventing spread of deadly coronavirus) by cramming more than one person in a room...

Missing PhD scholars of AMU traced to their homes in Kashmir, quarantined

KALEEM GEELANI SRINAGAR: Four scholars of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) belonging to Kashmir valley who had reportedly fled the quarantine facility at Aligarh were traced...

Dearth of ICU equipment in J&K: Doctors

Srinagar: octors and critical care health workers have raised concern over the preparedness of government hospitals of J&K to fight the novel coronavirus. They have...

Resident doctors want hostel accommodation, more masks

SRINAGAR: Doctors fighting the deadly coronavirus at Srinagar hospitals are still working without proper protective measures. The Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) has written a...

DM Srinagar assigns roles to officials for quarantine facilities

SRINAGAR: In order to ensure comfortable and safe stay of persons arriving back from outside countries and shifted into quarantine facilities, the Srinagar administration...

People moved from Haj House to Rajbagh hotel

SRINAGAR: After three days, several people who had returned from foreign countries and had been put into official quarantine facilities at Haj House, were...

South Kashmir villages yet to be sterilised amid corona threat

Anantnag: While there has been some activity, vis-à-vis cleanliness and sanitization of public places in view of the COVID-19 outbreak in major towns of...

Use WhatsApp to treat patients online, DAK to doctors

Srinagar: In view of COVID-19 scare, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Saturday requested doctors to volunteer for providing online consultations through WhatsApp so that people...

Advisor Khan directs for strict monitoring at Sgr airport

JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, who is overall in-charge of coronavirus control efforts in Kashmir on Saturday convened a meeting here...

Farooq, Masoodi releases Rs 1 crore each

Srinagar: National Conference President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Dr Farooq Abdullah on Saturday released Rs One crore from his MPLAD fund to...

Restrictions tightened in Srinagar

Srinagar/ Baramulla: No congregational prayers were held at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on Friday due to the coronavirus scare as well as...

Govt employees to attend offices on alternate weeks

Srinagar: The government on Friday said that employees in Jammu and Kashmir will attend their duties on alternate weeks. However, employees associated with corona...

Teachers asked to stay home

Srinagar: The government on Friday asked teachers at government schools to stay home in view of the corona outbreak. An order issued by Principal Secretary...

HC satisfied with govt’s handling of coronavirus

Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Friday expressed satisfication at the measures taken by the government in Jammu and Kashmir to combat coronavirus disease. The...

Co-travellers of corona patient self-isolating at home

Srinagar: Almost 40 fellow Umrah pilgrims from Kashmir were travelling alongside the Srinagar woman tested positive for novel coronavirus in the flight from Jeddah...

Close relatives of Khanyar woman test negative

Srinagar: Two close relatives of the patient who tested positive for COVID 19 on Wednesday were tested negative of coronavirus infection at SKIMS Soura...

11 co-passengers from Shopian quarantined

Shopian: All eleven persons from south Kashmir’s Shopian district who travelled with the lady tested positive for coronavirus have been taken to government quarantine...

HC satisfied with govt’s handling of coronavirus

Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Friday expressed satisfication at the measures taken by the government in Jammu and Kashmir to combat coronavirus disease. The...

2 co-passengers from Budgam test negative

Srinagar: Two Budgam residents who had returned from Umrah last week along with the first COVID-19 positive patient in Kashmir, have tested negative of...

Div Com seeks report on airport corona breach

Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole on Friday said that he had asked the Deputy Commissioner Budgam to submit a detailed report about passengers...

50 fresh cases in India; Covid-19 cases climb to 10 in Ladakh

New Delhi: India reported 50 fresh cases of COVID-19, highest in a day, taking the tally to 223 on Friday, as Prime Minister Narendra...

SMC procures chemicals for sterilisation

Srinagar: Srinagar Municipal Corporation Commissioner Gazanfar Ali on Friday said they have procured required chemicals to be used for sanitisation and sterilisation in the...

Advisor Khan appointed Kashmir incharge for corona control

Srinagar: The government on Friday appointed Advisor to LG Baseer Khan overall incharge of corona control efforts in Kashmir. An order said that Khan will...

‘Dark stain’ on human rights record: Amnesty

NEW DELHI: Death penalty is never the solution towards ending violence against women, rights group Amnesty International India said on Friday, calling the execution...

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