Frightening picture’: Prashant Kishor tweets video of migrants crying, begging
Election strategist Prashant Kishor has tweeted a video of scores of migrant workers, locked inside a cell crying and asking to be set free, and sought the resignation of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Thousands of migrant workers have walked hundreds of kilometres from big cities along with their children back to their villages after […]
CONFIRMED! Tokyo Olympics Rescheduled For July 23-August 8 In 2021
The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year’s games. Tokyo organizers said Monday the opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2021 — almost exactly one year after the games were due to start this year. Last week, the IOC and Japanese organizers postponed the Olympics […]
COVID-19: Prioritize the treatment of patients; distribute masks & PPEs to staff: Lt Governor
Directs for immediate issuance of 25,000 masks each to the IsG and Divisional Commissioners of both the Divisions JAMMU, MARCH 30: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today chaired a high level meeting at Raj Bhavan to review the arrangements being put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the Union Territory of Jammu […]
Flood Management Measures I&FC installs nine automatic WLRs on river Jhelum, major tributaries
Div Com reviews preparedness of I&FC; 12.6 lacs sand, 80,000 Geo bags kept at different locations SRINAGAR, MARCH 30: Irrigation and Flood Control department (I&FC) had installed nine Automatic Water Level Recorders (WLRs) on River Jhelum at Sangam, Pampore, Ram Munshi Bagh & Asham and at its major tributaries including Sind, Lidder, Doodganga, Vaishaw & […]
District Administration Kupwara distributes cash assistance of Rs 2.59 crore among construction workers, labourers
KUPWARA, MARCH 30: Continuing its efforts to provide timely succor to the needy persons during the lock down, District Administration Kupwara, today distributed Rupees 1.45 Crore among 1880 beneficiaries as Education Assistance under Building and other Construction Workers (BOCW) Act as COVID-19 assistance announced by the Central Government recently. Assistant Labour Commissioner, Kupwara added that […]
Ganderbal District Admin declares Waskura village a Red Zone
GANDERBAL, MARCH 30: The District Administration, Ganderbal, today declared Waskura village as Red Zone and its surrounding villages-Kharbagh, Batwina and Ahan as Buffer Zones as a precautionary measure. Invoking prohibitory orders under Epidemic Diseases Act 1897, Section 144 of the CrPC and Disaster Management Act, 2005, District Magistrate(DM), Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal, said that there would […]
Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (Covid-19) 10 new cases reported today, 11644 persons under observation
10 new cases reported today, 11644 persons under observation JAMMU, MARCH 30: The Government Monday informed that 10 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been reported today which include three from Jammu division and seven from Kashmir division thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 48. According […]
COVID-19 One more cases detected positive in Kashmir tally reaches 49
Srinagar The number of COVID-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir rose to 49 after one more patients tested positive for the dreaded virus. Taking to social networking site Twitter, government spokesman Rohit Kansal wrote: “ 1 more cases reported positive in Kashmir
COVID-19: Budgam man tests positive, tally reaches 46 in J-K
Srinagar: One more person has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Kashmir. The patient is a resident of Soibug, Budgam, and had a travel history of Odisha. He had also taken part in a religious gathering at Bemina. Dr. G H Yatoo, Nodal officer at SKIMS, Soura, confirmed the report. This case had taken the […]
COVID-19 Lockdown: 8 Year Old Dies of Hunger as Family Struggles to Make Ends Meet
Patna/Arrah: The impact of imposing a lockdown without any preparations is beginning to show. An eight-year-old boy, a resident of Arrah’s Jawahar Tola’s slum area in Bhojpur district merely 60 km away from the capital of Bihar, allegedly starved to death due to lack of work, and subsequently food, during the current lockdown. The young boy, […]