Crescent Kashmir

NC will not participate in delimitation exercise: Aga Ruhullah

NC will not participate in delimitation exercise: Aga Ruhullah

Srinagar, May 29 (KNO): National Conference on Friday said it has decided against participating in delimitation exercise .   ” The @JKNC_ will not participate in the delimitation exercise,” NC leader Aga Syed Ruhullah Medhi tweeted. At present, hectic deliberations are going on between NC chief Dr Farooq Abdullah, vice president Omar Abdullah and the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Monkeys steal Coronavirus test samples in Uttar Pradesh

Monkeys steal Coronavirus test samples in Uttar Pradesh

A troop of monkeys on Friday ran away with coronavirus test samples from Meerut Medical College in Uttar Pradesh. According to an India Today report, a  troop of monkeys attacked a lab technician who was carrying samples of suspected Covid-19 patients for testing and ran away after snatching three samples. The incident occurred inside the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

2 more Mumbai Police personnel succumb to Covid-19, forces’ toll rises to 25 in Maharashtra

2 more Mumbai Police personnel succumb to Covid-19, forces’ toll rises to 25 in Maharashtra

Two constables of Mumbai Police died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), taking the death toll in the force’s city unit to 16 and 25 across Maharashtra, officials said on Friday. The two deaths were reported from Dahisar and Bandra police stations of the state capital of Maharashtra. Incidentally, one of the Mumbai Police personnel […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Cherries without market

Cherries without market

Cherry growers of Kashmir valley have appealing to the authorities for the past two months to arrange special air cargo flights to lift fresh cherry from Kashmir to Mumbai. According to these growers they were having tie up with business houses in Mumbai to supply fresh cherries of this season. However, officials have maintained as […]

 Crescent Kashmir

PCB hires Saqlain, Bradburn and Asser at key posts in High Performance Centre

PCB hires Saqlain, Bradburn and Asser at key posts in High Performance Centre

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has made three more appointments for its newly-introduced project of the National High Performance Centre, bringing in former Test off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq besides relieving Grant Bradburn as fielding coach to hand him a different set of responsibilities at the centre. The third appointment is that of Asser Malik as […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Trump to target social media with executive order

Trump to target social media with executive order

WASHINGTON: US Presi­dent Donald Trump was set to target social media giants like Twitter, which he accuses of bias against him, with an executive order opening them to new regulation. “This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!” Trump said on Twitter. The wording of the executive order remained under wraps. A […]

 Crescent Kashmir

No proposal with Centre on formation of interim Govt or advisory council in J&K: BJP president

No proposal with Centre on formation of interim Govt or advisory council in J&K: BJP president

‘It is all propaganda ; no reality in it’ Srinagar, May 28 (KNO):  The Bharatiya Janta Party on Thursday said there is no proposal with the Centre about formation of interim government or advisory council in Jammu & Kashmir. Talking to news agency. Ravinder Raina, BJP’s J&K UT president, said there is no question about […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Centre constitutes permanent bench of CAT for J&K, Ladakh

Centre constitutes permanent bench of CAT for J&K, Ladakh

As Centre’s decision to extend the jurisdiction of Chandigarh branch of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) over J&K had evoked strong reactions, the Union Government on Thursday announced to set up separate CAT bench for the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh. The 18th bench of the CAT – named Jammu Bench – would have jurisdiction over […]

 Crescent Kashmir

30 Groups Trying To Develop Vaccine To Cure COVID, 20 Keeping Good Pace: Centre

30 Groups Trying To Develop Vaccine To Cure COVID, 20 Keeping Good Pace: Centre

A total of 30 groups, including big industry and individual academics, are currently engaged in developing a vaccine to cure novel coronavirus in India, and at least 20 of them are keeping a good pace, Professor K. Vijay Raghavan, the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Government of India, said on Thursday. The Council of […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Baseer Khan reviews initiatives regarding Covid-19 management in Anantnag

Baseer Khan reviews initiatives regarding Covid-19 management in Anantnag

Asks to establish additional screening, surveillance teams, quarantine centres at Jawahar Tunnel, Qazigund JAMMU, MAY 28: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Khan, today convened a meeting at Civil Secretariat, Jammu to review and assess the management and initiatives being taken up to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Anantnag district. Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag, K.K Sidha, […]