Recovered Muslim COVID-19 patients to donate plasma in Gujarat
More than forty Muslim COVID-19 patients, who were discharged from a hospital in Vadodara, Gujarat, on Thursday, will be donating their blood plasma for the treatment of other patients, a community leader said. Earlier, the Union government had allowed Gujarat health authorities to use on an experimental basis the plasma transfusion therapy which aims to […]
Pregnant woman who died yesterday tests positive, toll 7 in J-K
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded seventh death due to COVID-19 as samples of a woman, who died yesterday after giving birth to twins at Anantnag, have returned positive for the novel coronavirus. On Saturday, the authorities had ordered a probe into the death of the woman and her twin babies after doctors allegedly delayed her treatment […]
Malshahibagh Canal Breach; Div Com takes stock of restoration work
GANDERBAL, APRIL 26: The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, today visited breach spot on the Sindh Extension Canal at Malshahibagh, Ganderbal and took stock of ongoing restoration work. The breach which resulted from sloughing in December last year and affected the 6.8 MGD Alasteng WTP, which supplies water to several areas in the north […]
COVID-19 positive patients in Kashmir need human touch: Director Health
Visits Isolation, Covid-Care centers, interacts with patients, assures all possible help SRINAGAR, APRIL 26: Director, Health Services, Kashmir, Dr. Samir Mattoo today said that the increasing number of coronavirus positive patients across Kashmir region needs human touch, besides directing doctors to follow every possible measures and SOPs in their treatment. “Active or recovered Covid-19 patients […]
Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)
29 new positive cases reported today, 137 cases recovered till date in JK JAMMU, APRIL 26: The Government Sunday informed that 29 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), all from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 523. According to the daily […]
Make special arrangements to bring stranded J&K students back home: Tarigami
Srinagar, April 26 (KNS): While expressing serious concern over the plight of J&K students stranded in different parts of the country and outside India due to COVID19 lockdown, CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami Saturday urged the administration to make special arrangements to bring them back to their homes, the way other states are doing. […]
After 6 months, Fresh vegetables, essentials dispatched to Gurez Valley
Bandipora, ApriL 26 (KNS): After a gap of about six months, district administration Bandipora Sunday dispatched a cavalcade of 24 trucks carrying essential commodities to Gurez valley. The road remained closed for several months owing to heavy snowfall in the valley.Though the roads was thrown open last week, the entry and exit from the Gurez […]
376 Stranded Kashmiri Students Leave Kota For Their Homes In Buses
Srinagar: At least 400 Stranded Kashmiri students left Rajasthan’s Kota for Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday morning in government-run road transport cooperation buses. The Jammu and Kashmir government initiated the move after several parents and organisations expressed their concern over their kids remaining stuck in Kota, known as a hub of coaching centres, ever since […]
This South Delhi kitchen turns out 70,000 meals a day for lockdown-hit homeless & migrants
New Delhi: At the end of a narrow, winding road in Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri stands a lone godown. Correction: It was a godown, but now functions as a public food shelter run by the People’s Welfare Society that has been operational since 29 March to feed homeless people and migrant workers across South Delhi during the Covid-19 lockdown. […]
Mumbai, Pune set for lockdown till May 15
The Maharashtra government is likely to extend the second phase of the lockdown until May 15 in coronavirus hotspots Mumbai and Pune, officials indicated. On Saturday, Maharashtra recorded the biggest single-day spike in confirmed cases reported – 811 – taking the state total to 7,682. Of this, 5,049 cases have been reported from Mumbai – the highest […]